The Aldus Society is central Ohio’s connection for book lovers, hosting free literary events and author talks each month.
The organization is open to readers, book collectors, writers, and anyone who loves the printed word. Events are free and open to the public.
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Aldus Society Literary Talks
Monthly lectures are held on the second Thursday of the month from September through November and from January through May. Doors open at 7 pm; presentations start at 7:30 pm. Free parking. Programs are free and open to the public.
Thursday, September 12, 2024: Dan Sinykin will speak about his blockbuster book Big Fiction, examining how changes in the publishing industry have affected fiction, literary form, and what it means to be an author.
Thursday, October 10, 2024: Angus Fletcher, professor of story science at Ohio State’s Project Narrative, combines neurology and literary analysis to explore the psychological effects of different narrative technologies.
Thursday November 14, 2024: Sarah Casto, Paper and Photograph Conservator at The Ohio State University Libraries, will discuss the conservation and care of paper-based and photographic materials.
Thursday December 5, 2024: Holiday Party for Aldus Members
Thursday January 9, 2025: Aldus Collects
Thursday February 13, 2025: Roger Jerome. Dickens in Ohio. Few people know that the great novelist visited most parts of Ohio in 1842 and wrote about it. “American Notes for….” Roger has studied his travels in detail and promises original details.
Thursday March 13, 2025: Alan Farmer. Builds on recent advances in estimating the numbers of lost books to consider how lost books might reshape our view of the early modern English book trade and the cultural history of England from the mid-16th to the mid-17th century.
Thursday April 10, 2025: Rhiannon Knol will speak about the role wrong ideas have played in Renaissance and early modern science, focusing on the writings of Aristotle, Christopher Columbus, and Athanasius Kircher—and reactions by their readers, from Galileo and Harvey to Sor Juana de la Cruz—and on the ongoing negotiation of authority, empiricism, and imagination in scientific and philosophical discourse.
Thursday May 22, 2025: Ohio Poet Laureate Kari Gunter-Seymour discusses literature derived from the 32 Ohio counties “nestled within the western foothills of the Appalachian Mountains.”
See upcoming events on the website or on reserve a spot on Eventbrite.
Thurber Center
91 Jefferson Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43215
(next to the Thurber House).
Aldus is an affiliate of the Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies (FABS).
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