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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Introducing "Reading Pleasures: Everyday Black Living in Early America": A Conversation with Dr. Tara A. Bynum
January 20, 2023 - 3:00pm to 4:30pm -
Chi-ming Yang (Penn): "Finding Octavia E. Butler in the Archives and around Black Pasadena"
December 5, 2022 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Julie Davis (Penn): "Learning with the Tress Collection"
November 28, 2022 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Margaret McAleer (Library of Congress): "Paper + Digital: No Longer Format Agnostic"
November 21, 2022 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Marcy Norton (Penn): "Indigenous Epistemology and Early Modern Science: The Creation of 'De historia animalium Novae Hispaniae' (1571–1577)"
November 14, 2022 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Peter Stallybrass (Penn): "The Ten Commandments and/as Erasable Wax Tablets"
November 7, 2022 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Jamal Elias (Penn): "Writing Commentaries on Non-existent Texts: The Mystery of Ismail Ankaravi’s Commentary on the 7th Volume of Rumi’s Masnavi"
October 31, 2022 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Elly Truitt (Penn): "Why Are Clocks?"
October 24, 2022 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Tara Bynum (University of Iowa & McNeil Center): "Phillis Wheatley Passes an Evening with Someone Else’s Husband”
October 17, 2022 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Alexis Hagadorn (Columbia University Libraries): "Reading Medieval Parchment through an Eighteenth-Century Lens"
October 10, 2022 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm