WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
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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 2025 Speakers

• January 27. W. Brent Seales (University of Kentucky), “On Virtually Unwrapping the Herculaneum Scrolls”


• February 3. Whitney Trettien (University of Pennsylvania), “Baconian Quacks and the Origins of Digital Media”


• February 10. Brigitte Bedos-Rezak (New York University), “Material Literacies in Action: Documentary Practices in Northwestern Europe, 800–1250”


• February 17. James Wilson (University of Konstanz, Germany), “Joseph Chahin: A Syrian Maronite Merchant and the Recueil des historiens des croisades”


• February 24. Georgios Boudalis (Museum of Byzantine Culture, Greece), “Books in Late Antiquity: Their Making, Their Depiction, and Their Interpretation”


• March 3. Marissa Nicosia (Pennsylvania State University – Abington College), “Shakespeare in the Kitchen: Culinary Metaphor, Cookbooks, and Recipe Recreation”


• March 10. No meeting due to Penn’s spring break


• March 17. Peter Stallybrass (University of Pennsylvania), “Printers’ Waste: Fanny Hill and Foxe’s Book of Martyrs”


• March 24, 25, and 27. Kelly Wisecup (Northwestern University), A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography: “Indigenous Ecologies of the Page: Bibliography, Birchbark, and Remediation”


• March 31. Peter Emanuel Diamond (University of Pennsylvania), “‘Inscriptions of Sundry Sorts’: Literacy, Populism, and Early American Epigraphic Culture”


• April 7. Geoffrey Turnovsky (University of Washington), “Characters, Epistolary Novels, and the Analog History of A.I.”


• April 14. Jana Dambrogio (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), “Letterlocking: The Hidden History of the Letter”


• April 21. Roundtable led by Glenda Goodman (University of Pennsylvania) and Rhae Lynn Barnes (Princeton University), featuring Rachel Brown (Haskell Indian Nations University), Marlena Cravens (Drexel University), John Pollack (University of Pennsylvania), Daniel Radus (State University of New York, Cortland), Amy Kuʻuleialoha Stillman (University of Michigan), Germaine Warkentin (University of Toronto), “Inscribing Indigeneity in the Americas: A Hemispheric Approach to the History of the Book”


• April 28. Roger Chartier (Collège de France/University of Pennsylvania), “Enlightened Quipus: Françoise de Graffigny's Lettre d’une Péruvienne and Eighteenth-century French Incas”

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