WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
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Unless otherwise noted, all meetings are held at 5:15 pm 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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Fall 2026 Speakers

• September 14. Julie Nelson Davis (University of Pennsylvania), “Invention and Authenticity: Reproduction, Fabrication, and the Modern Market for Ukiyo-e Prints.”


• September 21. Nicole Rousmaniere (MOA Museum of Art), “From Page to Exhibition: Creating Art of Manga.”


• September 28. Eva Del Soldato (University of Pennsylvania), “Poisoned Jesus Christ? A Seventeenth-Century Franciscan and Conspiracy Philology.”


• October 5. Rhae Lynn Barnes (Princeton University), “A Dark Cast: Disability, Blackface, and the Print Culture of Roosevelt's WPA.”


• October 12. David McKnight (University of Pennsylvania), “Not Guilty! Frances Steloff vs. John Sumner and the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice (1928 - 1945), or How a Midtown Bookseller Defeated the State's Chief Censor and Saved Modern Literature.”


• October 19. [WINNER OF THE STALLYBRASS PRIZE] Rita de Cássia do Monte Lima (University of Pennsylvania), “The Natural and the Strange: Seeing and Making Plants in the Schoenberg Herbal (LJS 419).”


• October 26. [BENJAMIN FRANKLIN DISTINGUISHED LECTURE]: Dr. Andrew Shankman (Rutgers University–Camden), “[TBD]”


• November 2. Hester Blum (Washington University in St. Louis), “Polar Erratics, Arctic Ephemera.”


• November 9. Julia Alekseyeva (University of Pennsylvania), “Les Lettres françaises and the Legacy of Communist Film Criticism.”


• November 16. Zoë Cary-Beckett (University of Washington), “Paper Muscles vs. Black Power: Superhero Fantasies Confront the Aesthetics of Black Liberation in the 1970s.”


• November 23. Jessica Peterson, Erica Honson, Kathryn Reuter (University of Pennsylvania), “Remaking the Dunlap Broadside at the Semiquincentennial: A community-based exploration of Revolutionary-era document production.”


• November 30. Linda Chance (University of Pennsylvania), “Poem Cards: The Triumph of the Material in Japanese Literature.”


• December 7. Tom Mullaney (Stanford University), “There’s No Such Thing as ‘Continuity’: On Studying Information in a Universe that Falls Apart.”

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