Upcoming Events

The BSA Events Committee is pleased to support this workshop and symposium featuring textual objects inspired by American Contact: Objects of Intercultural Encounters and the Boundaries of Book History edited by Rhae Lynn Barnes and Glenda Goodman.

Join us for a special virtual fundraising event as part of our 2025 Spring Sprint! We’re celebrating the launch of Katie Mitchell’s Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores and inspiring crucial donations for the BSA Annual Fund.

The Events Committee is pleased to support this symposium focused on Hands-On Research & Teaching in Book History, featuring multiple workshops.

The BSA Events Committee is pleased to support this roundtable discussion at the Grolier Club, moderated by M.C. Kinniburgh and Conley Lowrance of Granary Books and featuring curators, scholars, and publishers who work in visual poetry, including Lisa Pearson (Siglio Press), Charlotte Priddle (Special Collections, New York University), Amelia Grounds (The Bancroft Library at University of Berkeley), Antonio Sergio Bessa (emeritus, The Bronx Museum of the Arts), and Alison Fraser (The Poetry Collection, University at Buffalo).

The Liaisons sub-committee is proud to support the 2025 Conference of the Bibliographical Society of Canada: New Histories of the Small Press. The Conference is held as part of the Congress of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences

The BSA Council has three meetings per year, one each in the winter, spring, and fall.

BSA-AAS Liaison John Garcia is organizing this year’s James Russell Wiggins Lecture in the History of the Book in American Culture at the American Antiquarian Society, delivered by Prof. Christopher Looby (UCLA) on June 11, 2025.

Attending the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section conference in New Haven this June? Don’t miss the BSA panel organized by BSA-RBMS Liaison Jose Guerrero!

BSA-SHARP Liaison Karla Nielsen has organized a BSA-sponsored panel at SHARP annual conference which takes place 7-11 July in Rochester, NY. If you are attending the conference, we hope to see you at the panel on Wednesday afternoon!

Learn more about the Mercantile Prize: submission deadline, eligibility, and more.

The BSA Council has three meetings per year, one each in the winter, spring, and fall.

The BSA Council has three meetings per year, one each in the winter, spring, and fall.

The BSA Council has three meetings per year, one each in the winter, spring, and fall.

The BSA Council has three meetings per year, one each in the winter, spring, and fall.

The BSA Council has three meetings per year, one each in the winter, spring, and fall.

The BSA Council has three meetings per year, one each in the winter, spring, and fall.

The BSA Council has three meetings per year, one each in the winter, spring, and fall.