The Archives and Special Collections Division of the City College Libraries, in collaboration with the Rifkind Center for The Humanities and Arts, announces the Fall 2023 series of Club Hour Conversations.

​For each occasion, librarians and faculty will select items from the rich Archives and Special Collections holdings of Cohen Library, and give short, informal presentations introducing these materials, allowing the audience a hands-on encounter with archival materials, rare books, and other special collections items on paper.

​As usual, we will be meeting Tuesdays from 12:30-1:30pm, in the Archives Reading Room, 5-301, on the 5th floor of Cohen Library. Refreshments will be served courtesy of the Rifkind Center.

This semester's lineup:

October 17: William Gibbons (Library) on the Harlem Development Archive

November 14: Robert Higney (English) on Modernism, Magazines, and the Cold War

December 12: Niel Shell (Mathematics) on Nathaniel Shilkret: Archival traces of a star of the early 20th-century music industry

We look forward to seeing many of you there.

With questions, please contact the organizers (Professors Sydney van Nort, William Gibbons, Ellen Handy, and András Kiséry) at akisery@ccny.cuny.edu or ehandy@ccny.cuny.edu