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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Thank you for joining us in fall 2024! Our spring season will begin on January 27, 2025. Please check back in January for the full spring calendar. In the meantime, see below for the titles of all the wonderful events that occurred this fall. Recordings of many of these events are available on our YouTube channel.
Fall 2024 Speakers
- September 9. Laura Moretti (University of Cambridge), “Engineered for Action: Movable Books in Early Nineteenth-Century Japan”
- September 16. Randall McLeod (University of Toronto), “The Librarynth”
- September 23. Julie Mellby (Princeton University), “What Did Muybridge and Darwin Have in Common? The Heliotype”
- September 30. Heather Wolfe (Folger Shakespeare Library), “Paper Predilections in Early Modern England”
- October 7. Craig Robertson (Northeastern University), “Storage: How Paper Does the Work of Paperwork”
- October 14. Lucie Doležalová and Jakub Kozák, with Karel Pacovský, Ondřej Fúsik, and Martin Roček (Charles University, Prague), “Inertia of Medieval Scribes”
- October 21. Dorothy Berry (National Museum of African American History and Culture), “Reading a Digital Collection: The Johnson Publishing Company Archive in Process”
- October 28. Alan B. Farmer (Ohio State University), “Lost Literature in the Early Modern English Book Trade, 1557–1640: Poetry, Plays, and Prose Fiction”
- November 4. Lisa Gitelman (New York University), “Typographical Hallucinations”
- November 11. Michael Winship (University of Texas at Austin), “‘The Need of a Bibliography’: Early Attempts at a Comprehensive List of American Books”
- November 18. Simon Martin (Penn Museum), “Getting Stones to Speak: The Decipherment of Maya Script and What It Has to Tell Us”
- November 25. Thomas Rainer (University of Basel, Switzerland), “Polished Nails and Polished Parchment:
Nægel-seax, Scraping Knives, and the Perfection of Writing in Insular and Carolingian Manuscripts”
- December 2. Tim Hogue (University of Pennsylvania), “What Were the Ten Commandments Really Written On? A Catalogue of Ancient Levantine Material Texts”
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