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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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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Alan Niles, University of Pennsylvania
"Memorial Culture in the Seventeenth-Century English Family Album"April 4, 2016 - 5:15pm to 6:45pm -
Nick Wilding, Georgia State University, "Forging the Moon; Or, How to Spot a Fake Galileo"
March 28, 2016 - 5:15pm to 6:45pm -
Lindsay Van Tine, University of Pennsylvania and Swarthmore College
"Charting the Tracks of Columbus: Washington Irving and the Territories of New World History"March 21, 2016 - 5:15pm to 6:45pm -
The RESTful Book: Bibliography and Bookish Media
A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in BibliographyMarch 17, 2016 - 5:30pm to 8:00pm -
The Poetics of Macintosh: Recovering the Digital Poetry of Kamau Brathwaite and William Dickey
A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in BibliographyMarch 15, 2016 - 5:30pm to 8:00pm -
The Transformissions of the Archive: Literary Remainders in the Late Age of Print
A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in BibliographyMarch 14, 2016 - 5:30pm to 8:00pm -
Panel featuring Anthony Grafton, Richard Calis, Frederic Clark, Madeline McMahon, and Jenny Rampling, moderated by Ann Blair, "Passing the Book"
February 29, 2016 - 5:15pm to 8:00pm -
Liliane Weissberg, "'Wish you were hier': Franz Kafka and Walter Benjamin Write Postcards"
February 22, 2016 - 5:15pm to 8:00pm -
Pier Mattia Tommasino, Columbia University, "'They Say That They Are Doing Right': Reading and Translating the Qur'an in 17th-century Florence"
February 15, 2016 - 5:15pm to 8:00pm -
Lisa Gitelman, New York University, "Emoji Dick and the Eponymous Whale"
February 8, 2016 - 5:15pm to 8:00pm