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Unless otherwise noted all meetings are held at 5:15pm in the Class of 1978 Pavilion, in the Kislak Center for Special Collections on the 6th floor of the University of Pennsylvania's Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center.

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Spring 2026 Speakers

• January 26. Adrian Johns (University of Chicago), “Looking for Labels: The Science of Safety and the Defenders of Information.”


• February 2. Priya Nambrath (University of Pennsylvania), “Scribal Worlds in Motion: Loss, Identity, Afterlives.”


• February 9. John Bidwell (The Morgan Library & Museum), “Printed Declarations: Life, Liberty, Editions, Issues, and States.”


• February 16. John Garcia (American Antiquarian Society), “Black Lives in the Early U.S. Book Trades.”


• February 23. Hester Blum (Washington University in St. Louis), “Polar Erratics.”


• March 2. Simon Teuscher (University of Zurich), “Kinship Diagrams and the Quest to Dematerialize Relatedness.”


• March 16. Tina Lupton (University of Pennsylvania), “When Writing Isn’t Work: Ronald Fraser, the New Left Review, and the ‘Work’ Essays (1964-9).”


• March 23. Joan Judge (York University), “Chinese Common Readers: Toward an Understanding of Vernacular Literacy.”
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• March 30. Peter Stallybrass (University of Pennsylvania) and Ann Rosalind Jones (Smith College), “Expelling European Jews? The Printing and Reprinting of a Renaissance Costume Book.”


• April 6. Ivan Drpic (University of Pennsylvania), “Painters at Play: The Excessive Epigraphy of a Late Byzantine Church.”


• April 13. Piet van Boxel (University of Oxford), “The Bookshelves of Robert Bellarmine: A Quest for the Authentic Text of Scripture.”


• April 20. Michael C. Gamer (University of Pennsylvania) and Deven Parker (University of Glasgow), “Slow History on Stage (and Page): The Other Burney Collection.”


• April 27. Roger Chartier (Collège de France / University of Pennsylvania), “Revolution and Erasure. France 1789.”

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