2025 RGME Colloquium (IN PERSON 2 days): "Break-Up Books & Make-Up Books"

This special 2025 Autumn Colloquium, designed by request, brings the RGME tradition of hybrid events to Princeton University, where many of our pre-Covid events were held in person.

NOTE: THIS REGISTRATION PORTAL is for Attendance IN PERSON for both days of the Colloquium held in person at Princeton (21-22 November). See below for separate registration for Attendance IN PERSON for the special Workshops at Special Collections on Friday afternoon 21 November.

Please see our other portal to register for Attendance ONLINE for all three days of the Colloquium (21-23 November):
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-rgme-autumn-colloquium-online-break-up-books-make-up-books-tickets-1287377804669

Plan

With the presentations and related activities planned for this event, "Break-Up Books" meet "Make-Up Books". We explore the phenomena of widely dispersed remnants of dismembered manuscripts and other written materials scattered at the hands of Otto F. Ege (1888-1951) and other biblioclasts, for a variety of purposes more and less laudable.

We will showcase work being done in various centers and by many individuals on these materials, as part of long-term, laborious, significant, and sometimes dispersed research, which seeks to identify, reclaim, and insofar as possibly, virtually reconstrict the originals and place them in context. Workshops and demonstrations will bring the materials to life.

Attendance IN PERSON

THIS REGISTRATION PORTAL is for Attendance IN PERSON for both days of the Colloquium in person at Princeton on

• Friday 21 November at Princeton University (three venues: morning, afternoon, and reception) and
• Saturday 22 November at the Nassau Presbyterian Church, Nassau Street.
  
  To attend the Sunday Morning online session on 23 November, please register for ONLINE ATTENDANCE:
  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-rgme-autumn-colloquium-online-break-up-books-make-up-books-tickets-1287377804669

Note the different venues for Attendance IN PERSON. (Days 1-2, Friday and Saturday)

1) Friday Morning 21 November
1-N-5 Green Hall, Washington Road, Princeton University
2) Friday Afternoon 21 November
Special Collections, Firestone Library, Nassau Street, Princeton University
Workshop 1 (1:30 to 3:00 pm EST=GMT-5), First Sitting
Workshop 2 (3:30-5:00 pm EST), Second Sitting
To attend either Workshop IN PERSON, you must register separately. (See below.)
Its fee is included in the registration for the Colloquium.
There is a fee for attendance IN PERSON only for a Workshop, not for our event.
3) Friday Reception
Princeton University (Location to be announced)
4) Saturday 22 November
Assembly Room, Nassau Presbyterian Church, 61 Nassau Street, Princeton

For Day 3 of the Colloquium (Sunday), the session will be ONLINE only. (See above to register.)

5) Sunday Morning 23 November (Online Session)

The IN PERSON events start with Friday Morning 21 November at Green Hall, Princeton University, Washington Road, Princeton. They move to the pair of repeated Workshops in Special Collections at Firestone Library in the afternoon. There follows a Reception (location to be announced) hosted by the Friends of the Princeton University Library. On Saturday the sessions will take place at the Nassau Presbyterian Church, 61 Nassau Street, Princeton. (The closing Session on Sunday morning will be held ONLINE only.)

Venues for IN PERSON EVENTS:

1) Friday Morning 21 November (at Green Hall, Princeton University)
2) Friday Afternoon 21 November (at Special Collections, Firestone Library, Princeton University)
3) Friday Reception (at Princeton Univerity)
4) Saturday 22 November (Nassau Presbyterian Church)

For IN PERSON times and locations, see the
Colloquium HomePage:
https://manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/2025-rgme-autumn-colloquium-on-fragments/
Colloquium Program:
https://manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/2025-rgme-autumn-colloquium-on-fragments-program/

Registration for the Friday Workshops 1 and 2 at Special Collections
(Space IN PERSON is limited; the Workshops are also available ONLINE)

To attend IN PERSON one or other of the special Workshops at Special Collections of Princeton University Library on Friday afternoon 21 November, with the chance for hands-on examination of original "Fragments at Princeton", you must register separately (space is limited)

1. Workshop 1. 1:30-3:00 pm (arrive at the entrance to Firestone Library by 1:15 for check-in)
2. 2) Workshop 2. 3:30-5:00 pm (arrive at the entrance to Firestone Library by 3:15 for checkin)

Registration/Donations

Circumstances lead us to charge a modest registration fee to attend this 3-day event. The extra costs for preparations in several formats and from different locations require a registration fee (for in person or online attendance).

1) $60 US per person for General Attendance
2) Student Discount for Official Students at $35 per person. When registering for this discount, please let us know your registered affiliation as a student.
3) The fee is waived only for Speakers and Presiders, for whose contributions we give thanks.

When you register, we ask you please to consider adding the Eventbrite handling fee for the transaction, as a contribution to the RGME's costs for this event.

We also encourage you to consider adding a Voluntary Donation in support of the RGME, a Section 501(c)(3) nonprofit educational organization principally powered by volunteers and your contributions. The year 2025 has posed challenges for funding for the RGME. We are grateful for help to continue our work and mission. Your donations are most welcome. As the organization runs with low overheads, you can be assured that your donations directly aid our operations and activities.

We thank you for your support and your interest in the Colloquium.

Image: Cambridge, Magdalene College, Pepys Library, P: 2981, p. 4, no. 3. Psalter Psalm 38(37)20, 32. Leaf No. 2 in 'Calligraphical albums assembled by Samuel Pepys in 1700, with commentary by Humfrey Wanley. Image via https://fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-7wo4; CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 license.