Department of English
Material Texts
The Material Texts Workshop is an affiliated working group. Affiliated working groups are coordinated and funded outside of the Department of English.
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.
Past Events
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Lara Cohen (Swarthmore): "Paschal Beverly Randolph's Occult Undergrounds" --CANCELED
April 20, 2020 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Carlo Ginzburg (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa): "Sterne's Punctuation, Once Again: A Comparative Approach" --CANCELED
April 13, 2020 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Andrew Pettegree (St. Andrews) and Arthur der Weduwen (St. Andrews): "Materializing the Immaterial. Recovering the lost books of Early Modern Europe"--CANCELED
April 6, 2020 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Robert Darnton (Harvard): "Pirate publishing during the eighteenth century" --CANCELED
March 30, 2020 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Geoffrey Day: "Eighteenth-century waste paper and bibliography" CANCELED
March 23, 2020 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Michael Suarez (UVA), Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography: "Printing Abolition: How the Fight to Ban the British Slave Trade Was Won, 1783–1807" - CANCELED
March 16, 2020 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm, March 17, 2020 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm, March 18, 2020 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Michael Suarez (UVA), Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography: "Printing Abolition: How the Fight to Ban the British Slave Trade Was Won, 1783–1807" - CANCELED
March 16, 2020 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm, March 17, 2020 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm, March 18, 2020 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Michael Suarez (UVA), Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography: "Printing Abolition: How the Fight to Ban the British Slave Trade Was Won, 1783–1807" - CANCELED
March 16, 2020 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm, March 17, 2020 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm, March 18, 2020 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Deidre Lynch (Harvard): "Charles Lambs' Paperwork"
March 2, 2020 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Nancy Vickers (Bryn Mawr): "The Problem of ‘Seeing’: When Secondary Becomes Primary"
February 24, 2020 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm