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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Marina Rustow (Near Eastern Studies, Princeton): “The Cairo Geniza and the Lost Medieval Arabic Archive”
October 10, 2016 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
David Scott Kastan (English, Yale): “The Complete Works of Shakespeare? How Complete Should They Be?”
October 3, 2016 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Renata Holod (History of Art, Penn): “On the Biography of One Manuscript: A 12th c. Qur'an Copy in the Penn Museum Collections”
September 26, 2016 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Jared Richman (English, Colorado College): “The Other King’s Speech: Elocution and the Politics of Disability in Georgian Britain”
September 19, 2016 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Lawrence Nees (Art History, University of Delaware): "Reading and Seeing: The Beginnings of Book Illumination and the Modern Discourse on Ethnicity"
Co-sponsored by the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript StudiesSeptember 12, 2016 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Michael Suarez, University of Virginia/Rare Book School, "William Hamilton's Cabinet and Its Afterlives"
April 25, 2016 - 5:15pm to 6:45pm -
Roger Chartier, University of Pennsylvania, "When Shakespeare Met Cervantes"
April 18, 2016 - 5:15pm to 6:45pm -
Daniel Balderston, University of Pittsburgh
"Borges in Love"April 11, 2016 - 5:15pm to 6:45pm -
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