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 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. 13: Vance Byrd (Penn): “Adalbert Stifter and Illustrated Pantheon Editions”


• 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”


• Apr. 10, 11, 13: Leah Price (Rutgers), Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography: “Reading from Home”


• Apr. 17: Jessica Linker (Northeastern): “Reimagining Women's Roles in 19th-Century American Scientific Illustration”


• Apr. 24: Roger Chartier (Penn): “Who Died on April 23? Three Textual Connected Histories between Peru, Spain and London”

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FALL 2022 SPEAKERS

• Sep. 12: Sean Quimby (Penn): “Making the First Black Comic Book”
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  Sep. 19: Joseph Rezek (Boston University): “Ideologies of the Codex in Richard Hakluyt and John Smith”
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  Sep. 26: Ulrich von Bülow (Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach): “W. G. Sebald's Papers and Photographs”
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  Oct. 3: Peter Barberie (Philadelphia Museum of Art): “Richard Benson and the End of Printed Pictures”
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  Oct. 10: Alexis Hagadorn (Columbia University Libraries): “Reading Medieval Parchment through an Eighteenth-Century Lens”
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  Oct. 17: Tara Bynum (University of Iowa): “Phillis Wheatley Passes An Evening with Someone Else’s Husband”
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  Oct. 24: Elly Truitt (Penn): “Why Are Clocks?”
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  Oct. 31: Jamal Elias (Penn): “Writing Commentaries on Spectral Texts: The Mystery of Ismail Ankaravi’s Commentary on the 7th Volume of Rumi’s Masnavi”
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  Nov. 7: Peter Stallybrass (Penn): “The Erasable Ten Commandments: The Decalogue as Wax Tablets”
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  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]
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  Nov. 21: Margaret McAleer (Library of Congress): “Paper + Digital: No Longer Format Agnostic”
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  Nov. 28: Julie Davis (Penn): “Partnership in the Studio: Reconsidering Ōi and Hokusai”
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  Dec. 5: Chi-ming Yang (Penn): “Finding Octavia E. Butler in the Archives and around Black Pasadena”

2022–23 RECORDINGS