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2024

Winter 2024

23 January 2024 | Provenance and the Orphans of Offenbach: A Rare Books Presentation with the texts and contexts of Judaica collections at McGill and the Jewish Public Library
31 January 2024 | Conversation with the Curator: Living Spaces: Moshe Safdie’s Early Affordable Housing Projects in North America
12 February 2024 | Black Politics in Dark Times: Revisiting Fear of a Black Nation After Ten Years

2023

Fall 2023

22 September 2023 | “I paint birds and I don’t care where they come from”: A peek into the depictions in eighteenth and early nineteenth century Indian bird paintings
17 October 2023 | Sri Lanka medical manuscripts as sources for medical history and the revitalization of traditional knowledge
18 October 2023 | Vernissage | Exposition | La Collection Jacqueline Lambert-David de manuscrits voltairiens
18 October 2023 | Voltaire Manuscripts; Traces of Celebrity
19 October 2023 | Genealogy 201 - Finding information in McGill's collections and in Indigenous records
25 October 2023 | Book Launch: Women, Environment, and Networks of Empire
31 October 2023 | McGill Medical Student Research Symposium
16 November 2023 | Trance, Dance, and Surrealism: Françoise Sullivan & Les Automatistes in World War II-era Montréal
30 November 2023 | Coffee with a Codex: Medical Manuscripts & Marginalia
1 December 2023 | Vernissage : The Victorian World in Flux

Winter 2023

11 January 2023 | Vernissage - News and Novel Sensations
24 January 2023 | Coffee with a Codex, An Hour of Hours with Dot Porter and Nicolas Hermann of the Kislak centre at U Penn.
8 February 2023 | The Art of Bookbinding - Robert R. Reid Medal Event with Odette Drapeau | L’art de la reliure – Médaille Robert R. Reid avec Odette Drapeau
20 February 2023 | Moments In Time / Instantporels Game Launch
25 February 2023 | De-stress and Sketch - édition Nuit Blanche
15 March 2023 | 3.1415 Ins-PIE-ring: A Pi Day Celebration. Watch or get the recipes on the event page :
21 March 2023 | A Collection of Souvenirs; A Spotlight on Quebec Postcards
3 April 2023 | Evening with Ana María Gómez López, Larose-Osler Artist in Residence
11 April 2023 | 'What a nuisance sex is!': Women Plant Collectors in the 19th Century
11 April 2023 | Japanese Art Night with ROAAr and JSAM
30 May 2023 | Knitting Natural HerStory

2022

Fall 2022

15 September 2022 | 10:30 AM Gwillim Student Symposium
21 September 2022 | 4 PM Scholarship at the Source: Allister Neher on Art and Anatomy in Nineteenth-Century Britain
6 October 2022 | 12 pm Illuminated Deities: Hindu Gods and Goddesses and Devotional Texts in McGill’s Rare Books and Special Collections
13 October 2022 | 5 PM Vernissage - Biblioteca Britannica
19 October 2022 | 12 PM Building McGill, with David Covo
26 October 2022 | 4 PM Vernissage - LGBTQIA2S+ McGill Student, Faculty, and Staff Activism
27 October 2022 | 12 PM Hooked; Fishing for Ted Hughes In and Beyond the Archive
1 November 2022 | Medical Student Research Symposium
2 November 2022 | The 45th Annual Osler Lecture: Policing The Womb In the Wake of the American Judiciary
3 November 2022 | Professor Joseph Lella Symposium
15 November 2022 | 5 PM - Search and ye shall find: Medieval music manuscripts in the digital age

Julie E. Cumming, Professor, Music History and Musicology
Ichiro Fujinaga, Associate Professor, Music Technology
with Ann Marie Holland, Rare Books Librarian

Presented in collaboration with Schulich School of Music
18 November 2022 | 4 PM - Artist Talk with Angela Grauerholz
6 December 2022 | 12 pm - Warp and Weft, Weaving by the Numbers with Jacquelyn Sundberg and April Colosimo
13 December 2022 | 12 PM - Fabricating Reams with Papeterie Saint Armand

Winter/Spring 2022

11 January 2022 | 12 PM Conversation with Nancy Springer, Author of the Enola Holmes Series
20 January 2022 | 3:30 PM Science and Friendship at McGill; A Few Insights
26 January 2022 | 12 PM ROAAr Book Club: Weaving words in textiles: A conversation with curator Deborah Goodman Davis
10 Feburary 2022 | 12 PM 1919: The Year of the Revolutionary Black Messiah
14 February 2022 | 12 PM Knitting 101 with ROAAr
23 February 2022 | 12 PM Hidden in Plain Sight: Artist Amy Suo Wu Reveals the Potential of Invisible Ink
9 March 2022 | 12 PM: Knitting in Code
23 March 2022 | 12 PM: ROAAr Book Club Presents: ROAAr Book Club Presents: Riddles and Riddling Ways
7 April 2022 | 7 PM: ROAAr and MSI present: Talking Telescopes; Then & Now
13 April 2022 | 12 PM: Dexterity and Craftsmanship; Artist Talk with Myriam Dion
10 May 2022 | 12 PM: Victorian Sensation Novels and the News
19 May 2022 | 4 PM: Magnifying the Royce Gale Miniature Book Collection

2021

Winter/Spring 2021

22 January 2021 | 12:00 pm (EST) Virtual Event | A Place for Everything; The Curious History of Alphabetical Order with Author Judith Flanders
27 January 2021 | 4 pm(EST) Virtual Book Club | ROAAr Book Club, Children’s Edition
9 February 2021 | 12:00 pm (EST) Virtual Event | Play with Language and the Nonsense of Alphabet Books
18 February 2021 | 1 PM (EST) Virtual Event | Rare Stitches: Knitting Inspired by Illuminated Manuscripts
24 February 2021 | 4 PM (EST) Virtual Book Club | The Books We Love: Reading in Hard Times
16 March 2021 | 12:00 pm (EST) Virtual Event | The Reader Belongs to the Play: Artists’ Books and the Library
18 March 2021 | 7:00 PM (EST) - Virtual Trivia Night | Quiz That SO?! Trivia and Game Launch
23 March 2021 | 12 PM (EST) Virtual Event | The Many Faces of Norman Bethune
30 March 2021 | 12 PM (EST) Book Launch | AMAZE - A McGill A to Z Experience
7 April 2021 | 4 PM (EDT) ROAAr Book Club | A Bibliophile's Brushstrokes
19 May 2021 | 4 PM (EDT) ROAAr Book Club | ROAAring in the Garden; From Seed to Harvest.
27 May 2021 | 5 PM (EDT) | Online Escape Game 101 Workshop
16 June 2021 | 4 PM (EDT) ROAAr Book Club | The Tastes of Summers Past

Fall 2021

16 September 2021 | 12 PM | Montreal's Built Environment; Planning, Design, Sustainability, and Social Equity
29 September 2021 | 5:30 PM | Vernissage: Mcgilliana; 200 Years of Student Life
5 October 2021 | 12 PM | Birding Mount Royal Yesterday and Today
- See the Birding Storymap here
20 October 2021 | 4 PM | Seeing Double: Photographic Portraiture in McGill’s Visual Art Collection20 October 2021 4 PM
2 November 2021 | Research and the Osler
17 November 2021 | 4 PM | ROAAr Book Club Presents | Pulling Prints with George Walker
8 December 2021 | 5:30 PM | Printing and Thinking with Andrew Steeves and Lauren Williams
15 December 201 | 4 PM | ROAAr Book Club Presents : Show and Tell: The Secrets of Women / Montrer et raconter : les secrets des femmes

2020

16 January | 5:00 – 7:30 PM, The Ludic Generation: Harnessing the Potential of Interactive Learning in Higher Ed. Dr. Paul Darvasi and Shawn Young.
30 January | 5:00 – 7:30 PM, Launch for the McGill Book Arts Printing Lab.
5 February | 5:30 - 7:30 PM, "Saturn and Melancholy": A McGill Queen's University Press Book Launch. Philippe Despoix, Georges Leroux, Alberto Manguel, and Jillian Tomm.
12 February | 4:00 - 6:00 PM, Workshop: "Learning Your P's and Q's: Printing with Moveable Type.
17 February | 5:00 – 7:00 PM, Vernissage: "Enlightenment Architectures": Sir Hans Sloane's Catalogues of his Collections. Kim Sloane.
27 February | 10:00 AM - 12 PM, Workshop: "Helping Students Get a Clue - Serious Play and Orientation in the Special Collections Library." Luke Aeschleman and Emily Jack.
9 March | 5:30 - 7:30 PM, "Trace Elements": The Commissario Guido Brunetti Series. Donna Leon and Judith Flanders.
12 March | 5:30 - 7:30 PM, "Before the Screen": Sketching, Play, and Creativity in the Making of Disney Animation. Mike Wiesmiere.
14 July | 3:00-4:00 PM, "Objectives & Dragons": Finding the Adventure in your Content with educational technologist Kristin Ziska-Strange.
28 July | 3:00-4:00 PM (Digital), "Play Where the Knowledge Lives:" Why Libraries are Obvious Spaces for Play with Megan Lotts and Matthew Shoemaker.
4, 3:00-4:00 PM (Digital), "How Do They Win?" Collaborative Game Creation as Impetus for Class Discussion and Research with Russell Hall and Glenn Kuhmhera.
25 August | 3:00-4:00 (Digital), “Leveling Up" Academic Library Gaming Collections and Services with Michelle Goodridge.
17 September | 5:00-6:00 PM (Digital), "Puppetry as a Tool for Transformation" with Puppeteer Jesse Stong.
22 September | 5:00-6:00 PM (Digital), "Playing Dress Up": Demystifying Costume Design with Professor Catherine Bradley of the McGill Costume Shop.
6 October| 5:00-6:00 PM (Digital) | "Performance, Play, and Female Empowerment": The McGill Archives and the Genealogy of Women's Basketball in Canada from 1900-2020 with Kelsey Blair.
13 October | 5:00-6:00 PM (Digital) | “Solving the Disruption”: Revealing The McGill Library’s Orientation Game, Raising Spirits: A Timely Diversion.
27 October 27 | 12:00-1:00 PM (Digital) | Resurrection Cakes and the Pleasures of Metaphorical Recipes with Rebecca Earle.

2019

Lecture | How Did Indigenous Land Become Colonists' Property? Prof. Allan Greer, McGill Department of History and Classical Studies. 16 January 2019
Osler Vernissage | Curiosities of Conception. Hosted by the Osler Library of the History of Medicine. 24 January 2019
Poetry Matters | What Legacy? Louis Dudek, creative writing and Creative Writing. Prof. Karis Shearer, University of British Columbia. 29 January 2019
Reading | Black Ink for Black Liberation with George Elliott Clarke. Co-hosted with the McGill Dept. of English. 31 January 2019
Osler Library Vernissage | Corps qui hantent d’autres corps. Caroline Boileau, Larose-Osler Artist-in-Residence. Hosted by the Osler Library of the History of Medicine. 7 February 2019
Lecture & Choral Performance | Saints Alive! Rediscovering Chant Manuscripts at McGill - Lecture and Choral performance. Prof. Julie Cumming, McGill University. 21 February 2019
Lecture | The Question That Stumped Darwin: Ants and Evolution. Prof. Ehab Abouheif, McGill University. 26 February 2019
Nuit Blanche | Alive at Night: Art, Music & History at McGill. In partnership with the Schulich School of Music & the Office of the Vice-Principal, Research and Innovation. Tour, multimedia presentation, and musical performance in Redpath Hall. 2 March 2019
Lecture | Fifty Years On: Gay Liberation? Prof. Brian Lewis, McGill. 13 March 2019
Vernissage | Visible Storage Gallery. Curated by Vanessa Di Francesco. 27 March 2019
Tour: Medieval Art in Manuscripts with Dr. Joan Friedman, Art Historian. 9 April 2019
Lecture | Universal Medicine’: Lessons from 17th-century England. Dr. Lauren Kassell, University of Cambridge. 12 April 2019
DRAW Hackathons for the Planet. Spring 2019
Earth Day Pop-up Exhibition. Rare Treasures of the Natural World in McGill’s Special Collections & Archives. 23 April 2019
Osler Vernissage | Osler's Leonardo Da Vinci Collection. Curated by Dr. Rolando Del Maestro. 2 May 2019
Identities, Networks, & Culture. Second Annual Colloquium of St. Andrew's Society/McEuan Foundation Chair in Canadian-Scottish Studies. 3 May 2019
Workshop | Discover & Write from McGill's Blacker Wood Natural History Collection. 4 and 5 May 2019
Osler Panel/Unveiling - Predictor Unveiled: The First Reliable Home Pregnancy Test and its Little-Known Connection to Montreal. 7 May 2019
To Market! To Market! 22 May 2019