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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Ralph Rosen (Classics, Penn): “Books and Textual Practice in Galen’s Newly Recovered Treatise, On Avoiding Distress”
December 12, 2016 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Julie Nelson Davis (History of Art, Penn) and Alessandro Bianchi (Smithsonian Institute): “Presenting the Pulverer Collection of Japanese Illustrated Books in the Digital Era"
December 5, 2016 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Brigitte M. Bedos-Rezak (History, NYU): “Printed Matter in the Pre-Modern West (7th-13th century)”
November 28, 2016 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Glenda Goodman (Music, Penn): “Copying Music: The Politics of Amateur Music-Making in 18th-Century America”
November 21, 2016 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Hwisang Cho (History, Xavier University): “The Epistolary Brush: Letter Writing and Power in Early Modern Korea”
November 14, 2016 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Steve Dolph (Spanish & Portuguese, Penn): “Divergent Arcadias: Madrid, 1605"
November 7, 2016 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Rachel Hall (Math, St. Joseph's University): "What is an Oblong Tunebook?"
October 31, 2016 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Joe Rezek (English, Boston University / LCP): “The Lost Sermon of David Margrett (1775), Black Moses”
October 24, 2016 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Bibliography and Culture: The Story of the Pavier Quartos with Zack Lesser
October 19, 2016 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm -
Shane Butler (Classics, Johns Hopkins): “Dante’s Mask”
October 17, 2016 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm