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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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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Sarah Wasserman (University of Delaware): "Pop-up Buildings and Postage Stamps: Ephemera and the American Novel"
November 15, 2021 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Asheesh Kapur Siddique (UMass Amherst): "Documenting the Body of State: Paper and the Matter of the US Constitution"
November 8, 2021 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Elizabeth McHenry (NYU): "'Utterly Worthless'?: Race Publishing, Subscription Books and Black Communities"
November 1, 2021 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Michael Suarez (Rare Book School and University of Virginia): Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography, "Printing Abolition: How the Fight to Ban the British Slave Trade Was Won, 1783–1807"
October 25, 2021 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm, October 26, 2021 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm, October 28, 2021 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Michael Suarez (Rare Book School and University of Virginia): Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography, "Printing Abolition: How the Fight to Ban the British Slave Trade Was Won, 1783–1807"
October 25, 2021 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm, October 26, 2021 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm, October 28, 2021 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Michael Suarez (Rare Book School and University of Virginia): Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography, "Printing Abolition: How the Fight to Ban the British Slave Trade Was Won, 1783–1807"
October 25, 2021 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm, October 26, 2021 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm, October 28, 2021 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Brenton Sullivan (Colgate University): "Buddhist Monastic Constitutions"
October 18, 2021 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Teresa A. Goddu (Vanderbilt University): "Antislavery Media"
October 11, 2021 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Margaret M. Bruchac (Penn): "Reading the Material and Textual Histories in a Path Wampum Belt"
October 4, 2021 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Christina Lupton (University of Copenhagen): "Corona Time: Reading Fiction During the Covid-19 Pandemic"
September 27, 2021 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm