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Everyone is welcome to visit Special Collections without an appointment from 9 am - 5 pm, Mon - Fri. Note that beginning April 1st, our hours will be 9 am - 4 pm

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  1. Paperworks at the Tucson Festival of Books

    Explore book art with PaperWorks, the Sonoran collective for paper and book artists at the Tucson Festival of Books! Visitors enjoy an open viewing of artists' books during the festival.  For more information, please visit http://www.paperworks.info/ ...

    Anonymous - 2016-09-30 11:49

  2. Presidential Letters

    Celebrate Presidents Day with a selection of 20th century presidential letters from the collection of Senator Dennis DeConcini. ...

    Anonymous - 2016-09-30 11:49

  3. Filming Pulp Poetry

    This is the final lecture accompanying the Mars Madness exhibition. ...

    Anonymous - 2016-09-30 11:49

  4. Community Digitization Day

    To register in advance call 520-626-8332. Bring your family’s materials related to Tucson and the surrounding borderlands areas from 1900-1970, and we will scan them for you. Each participant will retain their originals and receive a copy of their ...

    sflores - 2017-02-21 14:34

  5. Graduate Student Presentations

    Join us in room 205 as spring 2017 graduate assistants Zazil Davis-Vazquez, Mark Sandoval and Susan Lee Mergenthal present their contributions to Special Collections. Refreshments will be served. RSVP to Kathy at (520) 626-8332. Date and time: May 4, 2017 ...

    sflores - 2017-04-12 15:52

  6. Spring 2017 Student Research Symposium

    Mexico- The Storytellers Join us for a reception and presentations by students in Associate Professor Celeste González de Bustamante's U.S. Press and Latin America class. The symposium will open with a keynote by Lenin Martell. From 3:30-5:15 p.m., ...

    sflores - 2017-04-14 10:34

  7. Graduate Student Presentations

    Join us in room 205 as our graduate assistants Michelle Boyer-Kelly, Dani Stuchel, and Zazil Davis-Vazquez present their contributions to Special Collections. Refreshments will be served.   Date and time: May 3, 2018 10:30am to 11:30am Contact person: ...

    sflores - 2018-04-09 10:38

  8. The Heroic Armageddon in Poetic Terms

    The Middle High German Nibelungenlied (The Hundeshagen Codex) University Distinguished Professor Albrecht Classen will speak on Das Nibelungenlied (ca. 1200), one of the greatest epic literary works in Middle High German. The anonymous poet talks about ...

    sflores - 2018-05-15 11:19

  9. An Imperfect Rescue: Lionardo Salviati’s Edition (1597) of Boccaccio’s Decameron

    Professor Fabian Alfie will talk on an important classic of Italian literature by Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375), the Decameron.  The literary work consists of a series of 100 stories by 10 tellers who escaped the Black Death of 1348.  Two hundred years ...

    sflores - 2018-05-15 11:19

  10. Harnessing Time: Calendars from Antiquity to the Medieval Book of Hours

    Professor Cynthia White will discuss the history of calendars from antiquity through the beautifully illustrated medieval Books of Hours. Special Collections houses several facsimiles of these popular devotional books, including the hours of Jeanne d ...

    sflores - 2018-05-15 11:19

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