Workshop in the History of Material Texts
About the workshop
The workshops on the History of Material Texts are now in their 19th year. Participants (including faculty, librarians, graduates, booksellers and anyone else interested) come from a very wide range of disciplines and all are welcome to attend. The usual format of the seminar is a presentation of approximately thirty minutes, followed by discussion, based if possible on handouts or other visual materials. Unless noted otherwise, workshops will be held at 5:15 in the Martin and Margy Meyerson Conference Room on the second floor of Van Pelt Library. If you would like to receive announcements about upcoming workshops, please sign up for our listserv. For more information, please contact Marla Pagan-Mattos at marpagan@sas.upenn.edu.
Spring 2012
January 23: Zachary Lesser, University of Pennsylvania
“Enter the Ghost in His Nightgown: Hamlet after Q1”
January 30: Patricia Crain, New York University
‘“The Bank of Industry”: Rewards of Merit and the (Cultural) Capital of Childhood”
February 6: Elchanan Reiner, Tel Aviv University
“The Printed Talmud: A Project of Modern Jewish Culture”
February 13: David Ruderman University of Pennylvania
“A Best-Selling Hebrew Book of the Modern Era: The Book of the Covenant of Phinehas Hurwitz and Its Remarkable Legacy”
February 20: William Sherman, The University of York
“The Reader’s Eye: Between Annotation and Illustration”
February 27: Matt Rubery, Queen Mary University of London
“Canned Literature: The Book after Edison's Phonograph”
March 12: Michael Suarez, University of Virginia
“The Materiality of Manuscripts and the Author’s Habits of Heart and Mind: Gerard Manley Hopkins’ Manuscript Remains”
March 19: Bruce Holsinger, University of Virginia
"Archive of the Animal: Science, Sacrifice, and the Parchment Legacy"
March 26: Mark Rose, University of California, Santa Barbara
“Drama in the Courtroom: Nichols v. Universal”
April 2: Simran Thadani, University of Pennsylvania
“’Distilled from the Limbeck of the Author’s Own Brain”: The Voice of the Writing Master within His Books”
April 9: Roger Chartier, University of Pennylvania
“Chronicle and comedia. Fuente Ovejuna”
April 16: Liliane Weissberg, University of Pennsylvania
“Paper Missives: Reflections on Walter Benjamin's Manuscripts”
April 23: Jane Caplan, University of Oxford
“Papers and the Proof of Identity in Nazi Germany”
Fall 2011
September 12: William Woys Weaver, Keystone Center for the Study of Regional Foods and Food Tourism
“Decoding Old Culinary Texts”
September 19: Giles Mandelbrote, Lambeth Palace Library
“Around the Frankfurt Book Fair c.1583: An Unrecorded 16th-century Frankfurt Fair Catalogue”
September 26: Paul Peucker, Moravian Archives
“Moravian Recordkeeping”
October 3: Jessica Brantley, Yale University
“The Vernacular Hours: Literary Culture and Private Prayer”
October 10: Fall Break
October 17: Jeannine DeLombard, University of Toronto
“The Im/materiality of the Black Author; Or, What Matter Who’s Writing?”
October 24: Julia Reinhard Lupton, University of California, Irvine
“The Renaissance Res Publica of Furniture”
October 31: Patricia Mainardi, CUNY Graduate Center
“Moral Instruction, Atrocious Murders: The Beginnings of Illustrated Press”
November 7: Emily Steiner, University of Pennsylvania
“How to Use an Alphabetical Index in 14th-century England”
November 14: Justin McDaniel, University of Pennsylvania
“Forgotten Texts from Faraway Places: Vernacular Palm-Leaf Manuscripts found in Buddhist Monasteries in Laos, Thailand, and Burma”
November 21: No meeting
November 28: Lara Langer Cohen, Wayne State University
“Inventing Teenage Print Culture: The Postbellum Amateur Press”
December 5: Lauren Shohet, Villanova University
"Figuring New Media in Chabon's Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clayand Bechdel's Fun Home (Or, Reading Graphic Novels with the Redcrosse Knight)”