Department of English
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.
Past Events
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J.M. Duffin (Penn), “Draining the Swamp of Arcane Legal Text: Reclaiming the Geography of Eighteenth Century Philadelphia”
October 15, 2018 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm -
Priyasha Mukhopadhyay (Yale), “Unread: A History of the Book in Colonial South Asia”
October 8, 2018 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm -
Whitney Trettien (Penn), “Edward Benlowes’ Queer Books: Experiments in Digital Book History”
October 1, 2018 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm -
Carlo Ginzburg (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa), "Medals and Shells: On Morphology and History, Once Again"
The 2018 A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography - Fossils, Apes, Humans: A Chapter in the History of Science, RevisitedSeptember 27, 2018 - 5:30pm to 6:30pm -
Carlo Ginzburg (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa), "Gods, Humans, Apes: Art History and Evolution"
The 2018 A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography - Fossils, Apes, Humans: A Chapter in the History of Science, RevisitedSeptember 25, 2018 - 5:30pm to 6:30pm -
Carlo Ginzburg (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa), "Paleontology and Connoisseurship"
The 2018 A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography - Fossils, Apes, Humans: A Chapter in the History of Science, RevisitedSeptember 24, 2018 - 5:30pm to 6:30pm -
Nicholas Herman (Penn), “The Book-Shaped Object in Renaissance Europe”
September 17, 2018 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm -
Michael Suarez (Virginia), “‘A kind of printing:’ The Material Texts of Médailles sur les principaux événements du règne de Louis le Grand (1702, 1723)”
April 23, 2018 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm -
Roger Chartier (Penn), “Who Is the Author? Translating Shakespeare in Eighteenth-Century France and Spain: From Voltaire to Moratín”
April 16, 2018 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm -
Lodovica Braida (L’Università degli Studi di Milano), “‘Dangerous Books’. Italian Epistolary Collections in the Sixteenth Century: Censorship and Self-Censorship”
April 9, 2018 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm