Workshop in the History of Material Texts
<https://www.english.upenn.edu/graduate/working-groups/materialtexts>
5:15pm in the Class of 1978 Pavilion in the Kislak Center 6th Floor of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library.
*FALL 2018 SCHEDULE*
Sep. 17: Nicholas Herman (Penn): “The Book-Shaped Object in Renaissance
Europe”
Sep. 24, 25, 27 - Rosenbach Lectures
<http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/lectures/rosenbachs.html>: Carlo
Ginzburg (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa): Fossils, Apes, Humans: A Chapter
in the History of Science, Revisited”
- Sep. 24: “Paleontology and Connoisseurship”
- Sep. 25: “Gods, Humans, Apes: Art History and Evolution”
- Sep. 27: “Medals and Shells: On Morphology and History, Once Again”
Oct. 1: Whitney Trettien (Penn): “Digital Book History”
Oct. 8: Priyasha Mukhopadhyay (Yale): “Unread: A History of the Book in
Colonial South Asia”
Oct. 15: J.M. Duffin (Penn): “Draining the Swamp of Arcane Legal Text:
Reclaiming the Geography of Eighteenth Century Philadelphia”
Oct. 22: Katie Chenoweth (Princeton): “Printers’ Devices, or, How French
Got Its Accents”
Oct. 29: Sarah Guérin (Penn): “On Ivory, Wax, and Paint: New Insights on
Devotional Booklets”
Nov. 5: Margo Natalie Crawford (Penn): “The Textual Production of a Shared
Black *Edge*”
Nov. 12: David Norbrook (Oxford): “‘But a copie’: Lucy Hutchinson’s Life in
her Texts”
Nov. 19: Samantha Sommers (Ohio State): “Reading in Books”
Nov. 26: Gary Dyer (Cleveland State): Title TBA
Dec. 3: Mitch Fraas (Penn): “Boilerplate: Documentation, Paperwork, and the
Persistence of Form across the Early Modern and Modern Worlds”
Dec. 10: Arthur Kiron (Penn): “Hidden in Plain Sight: Christian Readers of
Rabbinic Literature in the Colonial Americas”
