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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Roger Chartier (Penn): “Books as Portfolio”
April 29, 2024 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm
Past Events
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Sonal Khullar (Penn): "Wartime Gifts: Contemporary Artists' Books from Sri Lanka"
October 16, 2023 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Gabrielle Foreman (Pennsylvania State University): "His Page Was Clay: How David Drake, an Enslaved Potter and Poet, Became a Museum Superstar"
October 9, 2023 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
András Kiséry (CCNY): "Recording Speech in 17th-Century England"
October 2, 2023 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Reyhan Durmaz (Penn): "Immigrant Voices on Paper: Representations of Religion, Race, and Home in the first Arabic Newspaper in America"
September 25, 2023 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Damon McCool (Eastern State Penitentiary): "Printing in Prison"
September 18, 2023 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Marina Rustow (Princeton University): "Storage Plans in Medieval Egypt: Holes, Provisional Binding and Archival Bundling of Geniza Documents"
September 11, 2023 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Roger Chartier (Penn): "Who Died on April 23? Three Textual Connected Histories between Peru, Spain and London"
April 24, 2023 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Jessica Linker (Northeastern): "Reimagining Women's Roles in 19th-Century American Scientific Illustration"
April 17, 2023 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Leah Price (Rutgers), Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography
April 10, 2023 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm, April 11, 2023 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm, April 13, 2023 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Leah Price (Rutgers), Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography
April 10, 2023 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm, April 11, 2023 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm, April 13, 2023 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm