Round table
Jocelyn Penny Small
Ramie Targoff
Jordan
Penkower
Dan Sheerin
Robert Kraft and Ann Matter
Roger Chartier and Peter Stallybrass
Fernando Bouza
Trish Loughran
Ann Blair
Nicholas Barker A record of the Seminar's meetings during the
Fall 2001 semester follows: This is the 16th Annual Joseph
Alexander Colloquium, co-sponsored with Jewish Studies. NOTE CHANGED
LOCATION: CAROLYN-HOFF LYNCH ROOM, FIRST FLOOR, CHEMISTRY BUILDING, 231
SOUTH 34TH STREET A record of the Seminar's meetings during the
Spring 2001 semester follows: A record of the Seminar's meetings during the
Fall 2000 semester follows:
Michael Ryan, Lynne Farrington"Canvassing Books: A Practicum in 19th-century American
Book Selling" -- LEA
"'Things Not Reveal'd:' The Mutual Impact of Form
and Idea on the Transmission of Poetry, 1500-2002" -- the Class of '55
Room (second floor of Van Pelt), 5:30 PM
Megan Williams"The Technology of the Codex: From Origen to Jerome" --
LEA
Round table (continued)"Wax Tablets and
Erasable Texts: From Plato to Freud's Magic Writing Pad" -- HF
Peter Stallybrass"The Materiality of Writing"
Joseph Farrell"Rolls versus Codices, Bodily versus Vegetable Form and
Other Bookish Antitheses"
Katherine Rowe"Early Modern Hand Work"
Maurice Samuels"The Spectacular Text: Wood Engraving and Illustrated
Historiography in Nineteenth-Century France"
Ann Moyer"Texts, Artifacts, Inscriptions: A Renaissance Debate on
Research Methods and Materials"
Aditya Behl"Poet of the Bazaars: Nazir Akbarabadi, 1735--1830"
Ruth Luborsky"Putting
the Pictures Back in the Book: Looking at Holinshed's Illustrated
Chronicles"
Leah Price"The Size
of the Novel"
Noam Flinker"English Poems Made from Biblical Texts: William
Baldwin's Canticles, or Balades of Salomon (1549)"
Larry Scanlon"A
Textual History of Sodom"
Stefan Reif"The
Cairo Geniza and Two of its 'Discoverers': Mrs. Lewis and Mrs. Gibson, Two
Women Orientalists in Victorian Times"
Jennifer Thompson"Peter of Poitiers' Genealogy of Christ: A Study Aid for Poor
Students?"
Nigel Smith"Creating a Bad Impression: Books and Radicalism in Early
Modern England"
Emma Dillon"The Sense of Sound: Devotional Designs in the
Montpellier Codex"
David Szewczyk"Problems in 16th-Century Mexican Printing and Book
History"
Moustafa Bayoumi"Faithful to the Text: Africans in the
Americas and New World Arabic Writing"
Cristle Judd"Hearing with the Eyes, Seeing with the Ears: Musical
Composition, Theory, and Print Culture in the Sixteenth Century"
Robert Perelman"Pound's Legibility: Pedagogy and/or Initiation"
Roger Chartier"Don Quixote in the Printshop"
Stephen Campbell"Bronzino and Counter-Reformation Comedy"
Shane Butler"Dhuoda and Medusa"
Sean Keilen""The Coinage of the Brain: Numismatic Books in the 16th
Century"
Paul Saenger"The
Origins of the Modern Mode of Citation"
Max Cavitch"Interiority and Artifact: Death and Self-Inscription in
Early America"
Elizabeth L. Eisenstein"The Two-Faced Printer: Some Representations of the
Craft and its Practitioners"
Jim Kearney"The
Cut of the Letter: Donne's 1633 Poems and the Hermeneutics of
Circumcision"
Marvin Taylor"'I'll Be Your Mirror, Reflect What You Are': Postmodern
Documentation and the NYC Avant-garde 1975-1995"
Emma Dillon"Designing Devotion: Reading and Hearing the Old French
Motet"
Emily Steiner"Medieval Allegory and the Material Text: The Case
of the Legal Document"
Talia Schaffer"The’'Industrious Fair': Reading the Victorian Domestic
Handicraft"
Jacob Soll"Textual
Subversion: Amelot de La Houssaie and the Print Practices of Criticism in
France 1670-1700"
Steve McCafferyon two Yorkshiremen's rescenscions
of one canonical text, Paradise Lost
Bruce
Holsinger"The Singing Bull: Liturgical
Cultures and Vernacular Writing in Premodern England"
Cannon Schmitt"The
Anachronistic Geographies of Greater Britain: Charles Kingsley's At
Last"
Rebecca Zorach"Ink"
ROOM CHANGE:
History Lounge, Room 329-A, 3401 Walnut Street;
TIME CHANGE:
4:30 P.M.
Carla Hesse
David Halperin
William Germano
Patrick Cheney
Lauren Shohet
Susan Lanser
David Ruderman
SPEAKER TBA
A record of the Seminar's meetings during the Spring 2000 semester follows:
Roger Chartier
Rebecca Bushnell, Michael Ryan, Brett Wilson
Michael L. Wilson
Drew Faust
Ora Limor
Galit Hasan-Rokem
Paula McDowell
Farah Griffin
Fiona Kisby
Michael Phillips
Penny Marcus
Jessie Owens
A record of the Seminar's meetings during the Fall 1999 semester follows:
A record of the Seminar's meetings during the Spring 1999 semester follows:
A record of the Seminar's meetings during the Fall 1998 semester follows:
A record of the Seminar's meetings during the Sping 1998 semester follows:
A record of the Seminar's meetings during the Fall 1997 semester follows:
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