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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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FALL 2023 SPEAKERS
Sep. 25: Reyhan Durmaz (Penn): "Immigrant Voices on Paper: Representations of Religion, Race, and Home in the first Arabic Newspaper in America"
Oct. 2: András Kiséry (CCNY): "Recording Speech in 17th-Century England"
Oct. 9: Thomas Levin (Princeton): "Future Auditions: On Gramophonic Voice Letters and the Inscription of the Absent Other"
Oct. 16: Sonal Khullar (Penn): "Wartime Gifts: Contemporary Artists' Books from Sri Lanka"
Oct. 23: Emma Smith (Oxford): "Twelfth Night in 2023: Editing Gender, Sex and Sexuality"
Nov. 6: Neil Safier (Brown): "The Plantation's Library"
Nov. 13.: Nicholas Herman (Penn) and Barbara Williams Ellertson (Independent Scholar): "Representation and Reality: Works of Art as Material Evidence in the BASIRA Project [Books as Symbols in Renaissance Art]”
Nov. 20: Joshua Teplitsky (Penn): "The Butcher and the Book: Regulating Kosher Meat in Early Modern Europe"
Nov. 27: Heidi Brayman (UC Riverside): "Blind Impressions and Mute Typography in The Faerie Queene (1590)"
Dec. 4: Shannon Mattern (Penn): "Case Logics: A Catalog of Media Furnishings"