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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Fall 2025 Speakers

• September 8. Anne Tiballi (University of Pennsylvania), “Text, Language, Object: The Utility of Textual Thinking in the Study of Archaeological Materials.”


• September 15. Sophia Rosenfeld (University of Pennsylvania), “The Age of Choice Technology.”


• September 22. Megan Heffernan (DePaul University), “Between Libraries: The Maintenance of Early Modernity.”


• September 29. Jean-Christophe Cloutier (University of Pennsylvania), ““These thoughts were all in French, almost untranslatable”: The Bilingual Manuscript Notebooks of Kerouac’s Maggie Cassidy.”


• October 6. Dee E. Andrews (California State University, East Bay) and Christopher S. Parmenter (Ohio State University), “Thomas Clarkson’s Latin Essay: Radical Antislavery, Classical Reception, and Abolitionist Print in the Age of Revolution.”


• October 13. Tajah Ebram (Rutgers University), “TBA.”


• October 20. Caroline Duroselle-Melish (Folger Shakespeare Library), “The Many Lives of Renaissance Woodblocks: The Case of Ulisse Aldrovandi's Collection.”


• October 27. Josh Mugler (Hill Museum and Manuscript Library), “Manuscripts and Violence in Modern Mesopotamia.”


• November 3. . Sonja Drimmer (University of Massachusetts Amherst), “Optics: Heraldry and the Preprint History of Print.”


• November 10. Kate Meng Brassel (University of Pennsylvania), “Binding and the Discipline: Some Paths Around the Classics.”


• November 17. Marco Aresu (University of Pennsylvania), “Scribe 106: The Portfolio of a Florentine Humanistic Scribe.”


• November 24. Sylvia W. Houghteling (Bryn Mawr College), “To Dye a Page, to Weave a Book: Cloth Materials and Texts in South Asia.”


• December 1. Emily Green (George Mason University), “Of Bad Candles and Glasses, Earthquakes, and Headaches: Reasons for Musical Error around 1770.”

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