Our conference intern, Anna, wrote about the Reading visuals conference. Read their post here: sites.utu.fi/hiiskuttua/a...
18.06.2025 12:01 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@emodgral.bsky.social
Project by Research Council of Finland, 2021-25 | Use of graphic devices + development of graphic literacies in England 1473-1800 | PI Matti Peikola, tweets by team members.
Our conference intern, Anna, wrote about the Reading visuals conference. Read their post here: sites.utu.fi/hiiskuttua/a...
18.06.2025 12:01 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Our conference assistant blogs about the recent @emodgral.bsky.social conference blogit.utu.fi/englishturku...
06.06.2025 14:13 β π 3 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0The final keynote of the conference was given by Andrew Riggsby on The Segmentation of Roman Documents.
24.05.2025 10:32 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Pronouns on the page with @jansfi.bsky.social at the Reading Visual devices conference
24.05.2025 09:50 β π 6 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Starting Day 2 of Reading Visual Devices Conference: the morning started with keynote Carla Suhr's lecture after which we enjoyed coffee togetherπ
23.05.2025 10:12 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Day 1 of Reading Visual Devices was a huge success! Some of the amazing speakers included our very own Matti Peikola and Mari-Liisa Varila. Can't wait to hear more fascinating papers tomorrow!
22.05.2025 16:11 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Dr. Hanna Salmi on the representations of movement in early dance manuals.
22.05.2025 13:59 β π 5 π 2 π¬ 0 π 1Reading visual devices conference started off with a great keynote by Professor Wendy Scase on the visual reading of family genealogies. ππ
22.05.2025 13:28 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Our post-doc Aino Liira's article on reader interaction with graphic devices is out now in Renaissance Studies! doi.org/10.1111/rest...
07.05.2025 08:44 β π 8 π 3 π¬ 0 π 1Welcome to the 9th Material Text Seminar - a workshop with Peter J. Grund: "Space, spacing, and pace, and the fictional representation of speech" on May 28th.
This is a zoom event, and all are welcome! Sign up here: konsta.utu.fi/Default.aspx....
My first venture into the 17th century, in collaboration with Jukka TyrkkΓΆ, is now available in Graphic Practices and Literacies in the History of English, ed. by M. Peikola, J. TyrkkΓΆ & @mlvarila.bsky.social (Brepols).
04.03.2025 08:14 β π 5 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0Photo of the cover of the book linked in the post
New book edited by @emodgral.bsky.social project members! www.brepols.net/products/IS-...
04.03.2025 17:44 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Seminar IX coming up!
Workshop by Peter Grund (University of Yale): βSpace, spacing, pace, and the fictional representation of speechβ.
Wednesday 28 May 2025, at 16.00-18.00 EEST, on Zoom.
Project's new book, Graphic Practices and Literacies in the History of English (ed by Peikola, TyrkkΓΆ, @mlvarila.bsky.social) is now available for preorder!
www.brepols.net/products/IS-...
@mlvarila.bsky.social on the development of data collection principles for the EModGraL project: blogit.utu.fi/emodgral/202...
05.11.2024 15:39 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Two days to the abstract deadline! Chop chop!
29.10.2024 15:53 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A new publication by Matti Peikola and @mlvarila.bsky.social, 'Presenting Manuscript tables and diagrams to the Middle English reader'. Go see more at blogit.utu.fi/emodgral/202....
09.10.2024 10:11 β π 1 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0CfP2 for our conference on graphic/visual devices is out! See more at blogit.utu.fi/emodgral/202...
17.09.2024 14:45 β π 4 π 5 π¬ 0 π 3CfP 1 for our conference, Reading visual devices in early books, is out!
Keynote speakers:
Prof. Andrew M. Riggsby (University of Texas)
Prof. Wendy Scase (University of Birmingham)
Dr Carla Suhr (University of Helsinki)
For more information, see blogit.utu.fi/emodgral/202...
(Photo by Antti IjΓ€s!)
03.04.2024 06:37 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0EModGraL scholar @sirkkur.bsky.social at Humboldt-Kolleg (Helsinki, 13-15.3) on the diagrammatics of English 16th c. military manuals.
03.04.2024 06:36 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 2The Early Modern Graphic Literacies project, funded by the Reseach Council of Finland, 2021-25, is now on Bluesky! We study English printed books 1500-1800 to find out how graphic devices e.g. tables and diagrams were used in the #EarlyModern period. #BookHistory
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