Central Ohio’s Bibliophilic Society
Welcome to your Central Ohio connection for book lovers. The Aldus Society brings literary events and programming to book lovers and educational opportunities to members. Some of our members are serious book collectors, some of us are merely lovers of the printed word in all its forms. Note: 2025 is our 25-year anniversary, and we’re kicking it off with a brand-new logo! Special thanks to Michael Daines for his beautiful design. Watch for more special programming and projects.
Programs are free and open to the public. Free parking.
Thurber Center
91 Jefferson Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43215.
(next to the Thurber House).
7 p.m.: Doors open, socializing.
7:30 p.m.: Presentation begins.
Upcoming 2025 Programs:
Thursday FEB 13, 2025: Aldus member Roger Jerome will discuss his new book, “Dickens in Ohio.” Roger Jerome has worked professionally as an actor (television, stage, and film) and educator in both the U.K. and U.S. His book uncovers the overlooked chapter of Charles Dickens’s visit to the heartland of America in April 1842. This engaging narrative reveals the untold story of Dickens’s journey, which had a profound influence on the world-renowned author’s perspective and literary creations. Roger has studied Dickens’s travels extensively and promises original details.
Thursday MAR. 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 APR. 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.”
These programs have been made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy Demands Wisdom. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed do not necessarily represent those of Ohio Humanities or the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Aldus is an affiliate of the Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies (FABS).