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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 2023 SPEAKERS
Jan. 23: Paul Farber (Penn & Monument Lab): “After Permanence: A Future History of Monuments”
Jan. 30: Alexander Bevilacqua (Williams College): “Human Difference at the Renaissance Tournament: Global Ambitions and the Visual Record”
Feb. 6: Zachary Lesser (Penn) and Whitney Trettien (Penn): “ 'Preserved as a Relic': What Happened to Edwin Forrest’s Burned First Folio?”
Feb. 20: David Bell (Princeton): “Talking Back to the Philosophes: The Case of Claude-Rigobert Lefebvre de Beauvray”
Feb. 27: Talya Fishman (Penn): “Material Devotion and Matter in the Culture of Medieval Catalan Jews”
Mar. 6: No meeting
Mar. 13: Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano (Penn): “Metaphors, Conjectures, and Opinions: Talking About Books in Early Modern Ottoman Texts”
Mar. 20: Dianne Mitchell (University of Colorado Boulder): “Folding the Lyric”
Mar. 27: Tiffany Stern (Birmingham): “Clown Images in and beyond the Early Modern Playhouse”
[CANCELLED]Apr. 3: Christy Pottroff (Boston College): “Postal Hackers: Reading the Earliest Letterbooks of the U.S. Postmaster General (1789–1805) for the Extraordinary”
Nov. 14: Marcy Norton (Penn): “Indigenous Expertise and Epistemology in 'Historiae animalium et mineralium Novae Hispaniae' (1560–1577)” [Co-sponsored by the Penn Department of History]
Nov. 21: Margaret McAleer (Library of Congress): “Paper + Digital: No Longer Format Agnostic”
Nov. 28: Julie Davis (Penn): “Partnership in the Studio: Reconsidering Ōi and Hokusai”
Dec. 5: Chi-ming Yang (Penn): “Finding Octavia E. Butler in the Archives and around Black Pasadena”