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.
Upcoming 2024-25 Programs:
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.
Free parking. Programs are free and open to the public.
Thursday, OCT 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 NOV 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 DEC 5, 2024: Holiday Party for Aldus Members.
Thursday JAN 9, 2025: Aldus Collects. Aldus members discuss their private collections.
Thursday FEB 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 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.”
Aldus is an affiliate of the Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies (FABS).
