2024 Autumn Symposium
“At the Helm:
Spotlight on Special Collections
as Teaching Events”

Friday and Saturday, 25–26 October 2024 by Zoom

[Posted on 19 February 2024, with updates including the Symposium Program, Posters, and Symposium Booklet with Program, Abstracts, and Images]

London, The British Library , Yates Thompson MS 36, fol. 65r, detail. Dante Alighieri, Divina Comedia, Canto 1, Purgatorio. Northern Italy, 15th century.

Part 2 (of 2) in the series of

2024 Spring and Autumn Symposia
on “Bridges”

To follow up from

Part 1 (of 2)
2024 Spring Symposium at Vassar College

“Between Past and Future:
Building Bridges between Special Collections and
Teaching for the Liberal Arts”

“Study on a Medieval Bridge” at Amares , Braga District, Portugal. Image by Pedro Nuno Caetano (2019) via Wikimedia Commons via Creative Commons 2.0 Generic.

[Posted on 18 February 2024, with updates]

This event forms a pair with the Spring Symposium (Part 1) in the 2024 RGME Anniversary Year, for which our Theme is “Bridges”.

• “Bridges” for our 2024 Anniversary Year

By request, as its momentum and enthusiasm develops, this Symposium has extended its span, from one day to two full days.

Part 1 in April

Part 1 is planned in hybrid format, with access in person and online.  It was held over three days in April, from 18 Friday to 22 Sunday 2024.  Its Title tells its purpose, focus, and mission:

“Between Past and Future:
Building Bridges between Special Collections
and Teaching for the Liberal Arts”

• Spring Symposium ‘Home Page’
  2024 Spring Symposium at Vassar College
• Report
  2024 Spring Symposium at Vassar College: Report

Part 2 in October

Part 2, to be held online for two full days in October, provides an integrated follow-up for the Spring Symposium centered upon Vassar.

This time, taking charge on the Bridge of a nautical vessel of passage (Bridge, Wheelhouse, or Pilothouse; Bridge or Pilothouse), we focus on selected cases to examine such teaching practices and resources at work.

“At the Helm:
Spotlight on Special Collections as Teaching Events”

Friday and Saturday 24–25 October 2024
by Zoom

Friday 9:45 am – 5:00 pm EDT (GMT-4)
Saturday 9:00 am – 5:15 pm EDT

In keeping with our tradition – informal, but structured – for our RGME Symposia (as with our 2023 Spring and Autumn Symposia), we offer presenters the opportunity, with minimal preparation, to showcase collections (private and public) in virtual visits guided by curators or collectors, in the company of teachers and students on-site and online.

Our goal here is to channel the purposeful momentum for the 2024 Spring Symposium at Vassar College in a simpler follow-up demonstrating the mission in action of teaching with the material evidence in Special Collections.  Whilst the Spring Symposium focuses (but not exclusively) on the Medieval and Renaissance periods, the Autumn Symposium welcomes a wide variety of periods, cultures, and genres of material.

Poster 2 for RGME 2024 Autumn Symposium. Set in RGME Bembino. Image: Coventry Patmore, Amelia: an idyll (1878), title page, illuminated by Bertha Patmore. Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press.

The poster is available to download. Please circulate and display it, if you wish.

• Poster 2 for RGME 2024 Autumn Symposium

For more information and to register, see below.

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