Previous Keynote Lectures and Panels

2025: “Bibliography After Empire: Documenting and Classifying Knowledge in the Tenth-Century Muslim World”, Ahmed El Shamsy (University of Chicago) | Watch on YouTube

2024: “Rethinking the Aztec Past, Rethinking the ‘Codex Mendoza’”, Daniela Bleichmar (USC) | Watch on YouTube

2023: “Toward a Bibliography of Birchbark Books”, Kelly Wisecup (Northwestern University) | Watch on YouTube | Read in PBSA Vol. 117 No. 4 (December 2023)

2022: “What Makes Bibliography Critical? A Medievalist’s Response”, Elizaveta Strakhov (Marquette University) |  Watch on YouTube | Read in PBSA Vol 116 No. 4 (December 2022)

2021: “Liberation Bibliography”, Derrick R. Spires (Cornell University) | Watch on YouTube | Read in PBSA Vol. 116 No. 1 (March 2022)

2020: (Panel) Bibliography and Technologies”, Michael Witmore (Folger Shakespeare Library); Lisa Fagin Davis (The Medieval Academy of America); Earle Havens (Johns Hopkins University); and Haven Hawley (University of Florida) | Watch on YouTube

2019: (Panel) “Collections, Faculty, Librarians, Disciplines: Teaching Bibliography”, E.C. Schroeder (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University); Sonja Drimmer, (University of Massachusetts Amherst); Alex Hidalgo (Texas Christian University); and Michael F. Suarez, S.J. (Rare Book School at the University of Virginia) | Watch on YouTube

2018: (Panel) “Bibliography in the Expanded Field: New Directions, Future Trends”,  Hwisang Cho (Xavier University); David L. Gants (Florida State University); Heather O’Donnell (Honey & Wax Booksellers); and Erin McGuirl (Independent Bibliographer) | Watch on YouTube

2017: “A Bibliographical Approach to Information: Afterthoughts on Too Much to Know”, Ann Blair (Harvard University) | Read in PBSA Vol. 111 No. 4 (December 2017)

2016: “Hard Cases: Confronting Bibliographical Difficulty in Eighteenth-Century Texts”, Michael Suarez, S.J. (Rare Book School) | Read in PBSA Vol. 111 No. 1 (March 2017)

2015: “The Medium is the Message: Printing the Classics, from Hand Press to the Computer Age”, Craig Kallendorf (Texas A&M University)

2014: “Operating Systems of the Mind: The Bibliographical Description and Analysis of Born-Digital Texts”, Matthew Kirschenbaum (University of Maryland and Maryland Institute for Technology) | Read in PBSA Vol. 108 No. 4 (December 2014)

2013: “The Uses of Print in the History of Science”, Adrian Johns (University of Chicago) | Read in PBSA Vol. 107 No. 4 (December 2013)

2012: “Lights! Camera! Books! American Cinematic Use of Books in Scenery and Plot, 1900–1970”, John Neal Hoover (St. Louis Mercantile Library Association) | Read in PBSA Vol. 119 No. 1 (March 2025)