Academic Programs
The American Antiquarian Society undertakes a variety of academic programs
for constituencies including college undergraduates, graduate students,
and postdoctoral scholars. All of these programs derive their focus and
their strength from the collections in the Society's library and from the
community of scholars, fellows, and staff that is centered around the
institution.
AAS Seminars
The American Antiquarian Society Seminar
series,
given in association with the history departments of
Clark University and the University of Connecticut,
brings
area and transient scholars,
graduate students, and other interested individuals together several times
a year to hear and to discuss papers on a wide variety of topics germane
to the interests and collections of the Society. The series focuses on
pre-twentieth-century American history broadly speaking, as well as on
such specializations as American literary history, art history, music
history, and bibliography and book trade history.
Many of the
presentations are interdisciplinary in nature.
American Studies Seminar
Each fall since 1978, AAS has sponsored an honors-level American Studies
Seminar for undergraduates at five Worcester academic institutions,
Assumption College, Clark University, the College of the Holy Cross,
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and Worcester State College. more ...
Center for Historic American Visual Culture (CHAVIC)
Established in 2005, The Center for Historic American
Visual Culture
(CHAVIC) at the American Antiquarian Society (AAS) seeks to provide
opportunities for educators to learn about American visual culture and
resources, promote the awareness of AAS collections, and stimulate
research and intellectual inquiry into American visual materials. CHAVIC
will accomplish these goals by offering fellowships, exhibitions,
workshops and seminars, conferences, and improved access to AAS
collections.
History of the Book
The most comprehensive is the Society's Program in the
History of the Book
in American Culture, which sponsors seminars, summer seminars, workshops, lectures,
conferences, and publications, including a five volume work of
collaborative scholarship, A History of the Book in
America, in association with Cambridge University Press. The
Program
was formally established in 1983 in order to focus the Society's
collections and its long-standing history of involvement in fostering and
publishing scholarship in American bibliography and printing history on
the development of an emerging interdisciplinary field of humanistic
scholarship. The Program seeks to promote research, publication, and
teaching about the impact that the printed word has had on the development
of American society and culture. The Program's activities have helped the
history-of-the-book field achieve its current, more mature state.
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- AAS Seminars
in association with the history departments of
Clark University and the University of Connecticut
- American Studies Seminar
- Center for Historic
American Visual Culture (CHAVIC) - History of the Book
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