Material Texts
For a schedule of current events and a searchable archive of past presentations, please visit the website for the Workshop in the History of Material Texts.
The Workshop in the History of Material Texts has been meeting weekly since its founding in 1993. Participants (including faculty, librarians, graduate and undergraduate students, booksellers and anyone else interested) come from a wide range of disciplines.
All are welcome to attend; ongoing attendance is not required, and many people come only to the occasional meeting. Meetings are held on Mondays at 5:15 in the Class of 1978 Pavilion, in the Kislak Center for Special Collections on the 6th floor of the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center.
If you would like to receive announcements about upcoming meetings, please sign up for our listserv using this link. More information can be found on the website.
Upcoming Events
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Peter Stallybrass (Penn), Heather Wolfe (Folger Shakespeare Library), Ray Schrire (Tel Aviv University): "Erasable Writing Technologies, 1500-1800"
March 18, 2024 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm -
Jim Green (Library Company): "The First American English Language Bibles: Fragments and Traces"
March 25, 2024 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm -
Ann Sherif (Oberlin): "Hokusai’s Page Spread: A Filial Piety Book in Early Modern Japan”
April 1, 2024 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm -
Lila Rice Goldenberg (Penn): "It is Easy to Add Books: Library Catalogs in Seventeenth-century Oxford"
April 8, 2024 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm -
Zhenzhen Lu (Bates): “Popular Literature and Manuscript Culture in Rural North China, 17th-19th Centuries: The Liaozhai Collection at Keio University”
April 15, 2024 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm -
Marina Garona Gravier (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México): "Printed Books in the Indigenous Languages of Latin America During the Colonial Period: An Approach from History, Editorial Studies, and Materiality”
April 22, 2024 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm -
Roger Chartier (Penn): “Books as Portfolio”
April 29, 2024 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm
Past Events
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Elizabeth McHenry (NYU), Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography: "Toward a History of Black Print"
March 11, 2024 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm -
Joseph Howley (Columbia): "Toward a New Typology of Roman Writing Equipment"
February 26, 2024 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm -
Emma Hart (Penn): "The Atlantic Itinerary of Smollett’s Complete History of England"
February 19, 2024 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm -
Jessica Brantley (Yale): "Literacy and the Literary in the Late-Medieval Book of Hours"
February 12, 2024 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm -
Zita Nunes (Penn): "Correio d’África: A Case Study of Pan-Africanism in the Multilingual Black Press of the 1920s"
February 5, 2024 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm -
Donovan Schaefer (Penn): “Is a Monument a Text?"
January 29, 2024 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm -
David Wallace (Penn): "Walt Whitman’s Inferno, Bryn Mawr College, and the American Civil War"
January 22, 2024 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm -
Shannon Mattern (Penn): "First, Remove Screws: A Cultural History of the Repair Manual"
December 4, 2023 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Heidi Brayman (UC Riverside): "Blind Impressions and Mute Typography in The Faerie Queene (1590)"
November 27, 2023 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Joshua Teplitsky (Penn): "The Butcher and the Book: Regulating Kosher Meat in Early Modern Europe"
November 20, 2023 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm