Department of English
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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Tiffany Stern (Birmingham): "Clown Images in and Beyond the Early Modern Playhouse"
March 27, 2023 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Christy Pottroff (Boston College): "Postal Hackers: Reading the Earliest Letterbooks of the U.S. Postmaster General (1789–1805) for the Extraordinary"
April 3, 2023 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Leah Price (Rutgers), Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography
April 10, 2023 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Leah Price (Rutgers), Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography
April 11, 2023 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Leah Price (Rutgers), Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography
April 13, 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 -
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
Past Events
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Nancy Farriss (Penn): "Christianity, Alphabetic Writing, and Indigenous Intellectuals in 16th- and 17th-century Mexico"
November 18, 2019 - 5:15pm to 7:15pm -
Charles Burnett (Warburg Institute), Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography - Monday Tuesday Thursday
"Form and Style in the Transmission of Arabic and Greek Science and Philosophy to the Latin West"November 11, 2019 - 5:30pm to 7:30pm, November 12, 2019 - 5:30pm to 7:30pm, November 14, 2019 - 5:30pm to 7:30pm -
Charles Burnett (Warburg Institute), Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography - Monday Tuesday Thursday
"Form and Style in the Transmission of Arabic and Greek Science and Philosophy to the Latin West"November 11, 2019 - 5:30pm to 7:30pm, November 12, 2019 - 5:30pm to 7:30pm, November 14, 2019 - 5:30pm to 7:30pm -
Charles Burnett (Warburg Institute), Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography - Monday Tuesday Thursday
"Form and Style in the Transmission of Arabic and Greek Science and Philosophy to the Latin West"November 11, 2019 - 5:30pm to 7:30pm, November 12, 2019 - 5:30pm to 7:30pm, November 14, 2019 - 5:30pm to 7:30pm -
Joseph Howley (Columbia): "Enslaved labor and the ancient Roman book"
November 4, 2019 - 5:15pm to 7:15pm -
David Kazanjian
October 28, 2019 - 5:15pm to 7:15pm -
Deidre Lynch (Harvard): "Charles Lamb’s Paperwork"
October 21, 2019 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Daniel Jütte (NYU): "Hammering out the Reformation? Luther’s 95 Theses as a Material Text"
October 14, 2019 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Liza Blake (Toronto): "Margaret Cavendish's Books and Some Alternate Histories of Textual Bibliography"
October 7, 2019 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm -
Erin Schoneveld (Haverford): "Shirakaba and Japanese Modernism: Art Magazines, Artistic Collectives, and the Early Avant-garde"
September 30, 2019 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm