About the Lectures:
The Annual Louis Faugères Bishop III Bishop Lectures are named in memory of the son of Louis Faugères Bishop, Jr., a prominent cardiologist and book lover with close family ties to Rutgers and New Brunswick– for example, Bishop House and Bishop Place on the College Avenue Campus–even though he himself was an alumnus of Yale University. In his honor, the annual Bishop Lecture brings noted scholars and subject experts to Rutgers to offer their insights on diverse topics related to book and manuscript collecting, printing history, and the use of rare archival materials for research.
2017 Lecture:
Remembering World War I
Through the Eyes of a WWI Combat Engineer—Charles Edward Dilkes
Virginia A. Dilkes
March 9, 2017 • 6:00 P.M.
In “Remembering World War I: Through the Eyes of a WWI Combat Engineer,” Dilkes will present the first-hand experiences of the War through the eyes of her father, Charles Edward Dilkes. Drawing on excerpts from his memoirs and pictures of his WWI artifacts, she will follow her father’s footsteps through the battlefields of France to his triumphant march through Luxembourg and his days in Germany serving in the U.S. Army of Occupation. Along the way, this personal history will wend from his birth in Philadelphia and childhood memories at the Jersey shore to work at Camp Dix, Camp Kilmer, and the Raritan Arsenal, from which he retired in 1958.
Recent Lectures:
Recent Bishop Lectures include, Roger L. Geiger, Pennsylvania State University history professor, on “Becoming a Modern Research University: the Postwar Challenges of Rutgers and Penn State, 1945-1965; film critic and Star-Ledger columnist Stephen Whitty on “Forbidden Words: Taboo Texts in Popular Literature and Cinema;” Dr. Karen Reeds on “Old Herbals, New Readers;” and James McPherson, Princeton University history professor, on “New Jersey and the Civil War.”
Past lecturers include Roger L. Geiger, Karen Reeds,Stephen Witty, and James McPherson, l to r.
A Timeline of Lectures:
