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See: China, Beipanjiang\/Duge Bridge Under Construction in 2016 to link the province of Guizhou and Yunnan. Photograph: HighestBridges HighestBridges, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.<\/p><\/div>\n [Posted on 6 January 2025<\/em>]<\/p>\n China, Hebei Province, Anji or Zhaozhou Bridge (\u0100nj\u00ec Qi\u00e1o, ‘Safe Passage Bridge’), built by the architect Li Chun from 595 to 605 AD, during the Chinese Sui Dynasty. It is the world’s oldest fully-stone, open-spandrel, segmental arch bridge. Photograph: Zhao 1974, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.\\<\/p><\/div>\n In 2024, we undertook a variety of activities and projects in support of our mission, including the following:<\/p>\n \u2022 Hosting Episodes 15\u201318<\/strong> of our online presentation series, \u201cThe Research Group Speaks\u201d<\/a>, on a wide variety of subjects and materials (January\u2013December)<\/p>\n Episode 15<\/a><\/strong> (January, online) Episode 16<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong> (June, online) Episode 17<\/a><\/strong> (September, online) Episode 18 (December, online). Dallas, Texas, Bridwell Library, Ashendene Song of Songs (1902), illuminated by Florence Kingsford and bound by Katharine Adam. Title page and opening of text. Image Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.<\/p><\/div>\n \u2022 Holding a special Anniversary Symposium<\/strong> to thank our retired WebMaster (February, 1 day, online): \u2022 Holding our online Spring and Autumn Symposia<\/strong> (Parts I\u2013II) centering our 2024 Project “Between Past and Future”<\/strong> with a focus on Special Collections (April and October) 2024 Spring Symposium Program: Cover<\/p><\/div>\n Part I. Spring Symposium at Vassar College<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cBetween Past and Future: Building Bridges between Special Collections and Teaching for the Liberal Arts\u201d<\/strong> (19\u201321 April, hybrid)<\/p>\n Part II. Autumn Symposium<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cAt the Helm: Spotlight on Special Collections as Teaching Events\u201d<\/strong> (24\u201326 October, online)<\/p>\n \u2022 Sponsoring and Co-sponsoring a suite of Activities at the 59th International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICMS)<\/strong> (May, in-person, online, hybrid)<\/p>\n Ada Bridge pylon, Belgrade, Serbia. Photograph Petar Milo\u0161evi\u0107 (1 August 2021). Image via Wikimedia Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.<\/p><\/div>\n 1) Co-sponsoring three Conference Sessions<\/strong><\/p>\n Co-sponsors: Postal History at Kalamazoo, POMONA, and Societas Magica<\/strong><\/p>\n Organizers: David W. Sorenson, David Porreca, Phillip Bernhardt-House, Mildred Budny<\/p>\n See:<\/p>\n 2) Holding our annual Open Business Meeting at the ICMS <\/strong>(May), with a published Agenda and Annual Report available for download<\/p>\n 3) Hosting a celebratory Anniversary Reception<\/strong> at the ICMS, RGME @ 2024 IMC at Leeds: Poster 2 set in RGME Bembino, with border.<\/p><\/div>\n \u2022 Sponsoring an Inaugural Session<\/strong> at the International Medieval Congress<\/a> (IMC) at the University of Leeds (July, hybrid) Co-Organizers: Ann Pascoe\u2013van Zyl and Michael Allman Conrad<\/p>\n \u2022 Co-sponsoring \u201cMedieval Women\u2019s Networks<\/a>: Exploring Tools and Techniques for Digital Analysis”. (October, 2 days, online)<\/p>\n A Pair of Interactive Public Workshops co-organized by Kathy Krause and Laura Morreale and co-sponsored by:<\/p>\n University of Missouri, Kansas City: Center for Digital and Public Humanities Logo<\/p><\/div>\n Center for Digital and Public Humanities<\/a><\/li>\n \u2022 Sponsoring the 2024 Autumn Symposium<\/a> (October, 2 days, online) Poster 2 for RGME 2024 Autumn Symposium. Set in RGME Bembino. Image: Coventry Patmore, Amelia: An iIyll (1878), title page, illuminated by Bertha Patmore. Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, University of Delaware Library, Musuems and Press.<\/p><\/div>\n \u2022 Returning to In-Person Visits to Collections<\/strong>, with an Invited Visit to the Collection of Steven M. Lomazow, M.D., in Collaboration with the Student Friends of the Princeton University Library<\/strong><\/a> (SFPUL) (November, 1 day, hybrid)<\/p>\n Dr. Lomazow on Screen and in the Room. Photography by Mildred Budny.<\/p><\/div>\n \u2022 Carrying out the 2024 year-long Project \u201cBetween Past and Future: RGME Spring & Autumn Symposia in 2024 for Teaching in the Liberal Arts with Original Sources, at Vassar College and Beyond\u201d<\/strong>, funded by The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation<\/a>, through its Research Libraries Program (January\u2013December). See:<\/p>\n This Project built upon the 2023 Pilot Project for \u201cBuilding the Plan for Recording, Structuring, and Accessing the RGME Library & Archives\u201d through a year-long<\/p>\n \u2022 Welcoming new part-time Interns<\/strong> to our work and activities, with support by this year’s funded Project. Their work contributes to the organization, accomplishment, and follow-up for the events, especially the pair of Spring and Autumn Symposia which form the centerpiece of the Project.<\/p>\n This year’s position of Intern Executive Assistant\/Associate<\/strong> to the RGME Director is filled as 1) Hannah Goeselt<\/strong> as Intern Executive Associate and 2) Zoey Kambour<\/strong> as Intern Executive Assistant. For the Spring Symposium in hybrid format, Student Interns at Vassar<\/strong> College helped both the in-person and the online features.<\/p>\n \u2022 Forming, by request, the Friends of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence<\/a> (June). With this new organization within the RGME, we create new forms of engaging with our community. There is no fee to join the Friends.<\/p>\n \u2022 Beginning a new series of Meetings<\/strong> of the Friends of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence<\/a> (from October, online)<\/p>\n \u2022 Designing a Logo for the Friends<\/strong> through a process of collaboration.\u00a0The suggested designs have evolved in stages through conversations and feedback at our Friends’ Meetings. For example, these conversations inspired us to turn to the motif of a claddagh ring<\/a> (or f\u00e1inne Chladaigh<\/em> in Irish), with hands clasping our official logo (oval, chevron, stars, and keys with openwork hearts) and bearing our colors on sleeves and cuffs, along with our stars.<\/p>\n Logo (2024) of the Friends of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence<\/p><\/div>\n \u2022 Creating a Favorite Recipe Competition<\/strong> for the Friends of the RGME<\/strong>, with Prizes, starting with recipes for Lemonade and similar antidotes to the Lemons that Life might throw our way. With entries already in hand, the first Prizes are ready to award, together with special Award Certificates and lemon-patterned wrapping paper.<\/p>\n “Garden Lemon” by Madmad1234 CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons.<\/p><\/div>\n There is still time to send in your entries, and not only for Lemonade (or the like), as we will move to further Competitions for other forms of recipes to populate and to nourish an RGME Cookbook of Favorite Recipes<\/em>, Lemonade Included.<\/p>\n \u2022 Launching a new series of RGME Workshops on “The Evidence of Manuscripts [Etc.]”<\/a><\/strong> (from November; online) Harking back to our first series of events as the RGME, in the series of RGME Seminars on “The Evidence of Manuscripts”<\/strong><\/a> (1989\u20131994), this new series brings forward for collective study (‘crowdsourcing’ and collaboration) the original specimens as witnesses in our own RGME Special Collections<\/strong> and the RGME Lending Library<\/a>.<\/p>\n For information about these Workshops, see:<\/p>\n \u2022 Conducting our 2024 Anniversary Survey<\/a>, both online and via a Word Document for those without access to Google Workspace.<\/p>\n New York, Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.769, fol. 305v, detail. Regensburg, Germany, 1360. Image \u00a9 Morgan Library, New York, via https:\/\/ica.themorgan.org\/manuscript\/page\/215\/143938<\/p><\/div>\n The Report of its results has been prepared by Hannah Goeselt and Zoey Kambour. It will be published in the next issue of the RGME eNewsletter, ShelfMarks<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 Beginning to plan an Anniversary Anthology<\/strong> with highlights of RGME Publications, such as blogposts and abstracts or reports of presentations for our events over the years.<\/p>\n A new ShelfLife<\/em> Advisory Committee<\/strong> guides this work.<\/p>\n \u2022 Opening a new Page on our website to announce the activities, projects, and publications of RGME People other than for RGME events. Inviting suggestions for items to include, we call this electronic Bulletin Board<\/p>\n \u2022 Building our resources and seeking a financial safety-net for our nonprofit educational organization powered principally by volunteers, we launch the next long-term Appeal<\/strong> for support in funds and in kind.<\/p>\n \u2022 Continuing with our program of Publications<\/strong><\/a>, including our Website<\/a>, Social Media, Booklets, etc.<\/p>\n The work involves providing updates and blogposts for our website, preparing email circulars for our emailing list, and publishing Program Booklets, Symposium Booklets, Report Booklets, Posters (for our Symposia, Sessions and Activities at the 2024 ICMS and IMC, etc.), and other texts, in digital and printed forms. See:<\/p>\n \u2022 Welcoming Guest Bloggers<\/strong> to contribute, as before. This year a new Guest Blogger, our Associate Georgi Parpulov, presented conscientious reflections on<\/p>\n \u2022 Preparing an Anniversary Anthology<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022 Advancing with the next version of our own multi-lingual digital font Bembino<\/a>, by requests, to add fonts to the languages supported \u2014 now with Elvish<\/strong> for Tengwar<\/a>.<\/p>\n The first full-length book using Bembino as its font was published this year for our Associate Reid Byers’ catalogue of a collection and exhibition:<\/p>\n
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2024 Activities<\/h1>\n
Theme for the Year = \u201c<\/b>Bridges<\/b><\/a>\u201d<\/b><\/h3>\n
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\n\u201cWomen Writers from the Medieval to Post-Modern Periods<\/a>\u201d
\nSpeakers: Jaclyn Reed, Hannah Goeselt, Linda Civitello
\nPresider: Mildred Budny<\/p>\n
\n\u201cTrailblazing the Medieval Digital Humanities<\/a>“:\u00a0 An Interview with Jesse D. Hurlbut<\/a>\u201d
\nInterviewer: Mildred Budny<\/p>\n
\n\u201cRGME Retrospect and Prospects: Anniversary Reflections<\/a>\u201d
\nSpeakers: Celia Chazelle, Eleanor Congdon, Dana Delibovi, Hannah Goeselt,
\nZoey Kambour, Ann Pascoe\u2013van Zyl
\nPresider: Mildred Budny<\/p>\n
\n\u201cWomen as Makers of Books<\/a>\u201d
\nSpeakers: Jaclyn Reed, Hannah Goeselt, Linda Civitello, and Mildred Budny
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\n\u201cMANUSCRIPT (HE)ART<\/strong>: 2024 Anniversary Symposium in Thanks to Jesse Hurlbut<\/a>\u201d (RGME WebMaster Emeritus)
\nCo-Organized by Jessica L. Savage and Katharine C. Chandler<\/p>\n\n
\n\u2014 with Illustrated Booklets<\/p>\n\n
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\nOrganizer: David Porreca<\/li>\n
\nMail in the Medieval World\u201dCo-sponsored with Postal History at Kalamazoo
\n<\/strong>Organizer: David W. Sorenson<\/li>\n
\nAs the Curtain Falls (A Roundtable)\u201d
\nCo-sponsored with P.-O.M.o.N.A.
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\nOrganizers: Phillip Bernhardt\u2013House and Mildred Budny<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
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\n2024 Congress Theme = \u201cCrisis\u201d<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n
\nCall for Papers<\/a>
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