Penn Material Texts

This event with Jana Dambrogio takes place today at 5:15 PM Eastern, on the 6th floor of Penn's Van Pelt Library (and on Zoom). As always, feel free to DM for details, including the Zoom link if desired!

For our next talk, we are thrilled to welcome Jana Dambrogio (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) for a talk titled: “Letterlocking: The Hidden History of the Letter.”

Monday, April 14 at 5:15 PM Eastern — 6th floor of Penn's Van Pelt Library (and on Zoom). As always, DM for details!

Next up, Geoffrey Turnovsky (University of Washington) will present his talk: “Characters, Epistolary Novels, and the Analog History of A.I.”

This talk is tomorrow (Monday, April 7) at 5:15 PM ET, on the sixth floor of Penn's Van Pelt Library and on Zoom — DM us for more information!

At our next meeting, our brilliant and wonderful graduate fellow, Peter Diamond, will present his research: “‘Inscriptions of Sundry Sorts’: Literacy, Populism, and Early American Epigraphic Culture.”

Monday 3/31 at 5:15 PM, in-person (Penn's Van Pelt Library, 6th floor) & on Zoom — DM for details!

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The A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography The Rosenbach Lectures are the longest continuing series of bibliographical lectureships in the United States. Rosenbach Fellows typically present three lectures over a period of one-two weeks.

This week, Kelly Wisecup (Northwestern) delivers the Rosenbach Lectures at Penn, “Indigenous Ecologies of the Page: Bibliography, Birchbark, and Remediation.”

Mon 3/24, Tue 3/25, and Thu 3/27 at 5:30 PM. All all are open to the public in-person and on Zoom.

Registration required using this link:

This is this evening at 5:15 PM Eastern!

This Monday at 5:15 PM ET, the founder of our workshop, Peter Stallybrass, returns to give his talk: “Printers’ Waste: Fanny Hill and Foxe’s Book of Martyrs.”

Please join us either in-person on the sixth floor of Penn's Van Pelt Library, or on Zoom (DM us for the link)!

Due to Penn's spring break, there is no meeting of Material Texts tonight! We will resume with a talk by our Workshop's founder, Peter Stallybrass, on Monday, March 17 at 5:15 PM ET — more info forthcoming!

This is today at 5:15 PM EST! Please join us, either in-person on the sixth floor of Penn's Van Pelt Library or remotely on Zoom (DM for more information/the link). Hope to see you there!

Monday, March 3 at 5:15 PM ET, we will welcome Marissa Nicosia (@nicosiamarissa.bsky.social) to the workshop for a talk called “Shakespeare in the Kitchen: Culinary Metaphor, Cookbooks, and Recipe Recreation.”

At Penn & on Zoom — DM for info!

(Strawberry photos courtesy of @gaypanek.bsky.social)

Tonight @ 5:15 PM ET! Georgios Boudalis (Museum of Byzantine Culture) will present: “Books in Late Antiquity: Their Making, Depiction and Interpretation.”

He'll explore codex book formats from late antiquity & their depiction in the art of the time.

In-person at Penn, & on Zoom — DM for more info!

Tomorrow, we will welcome James Wilson (University of Konstanz, Germany) for his talk, “Joseph Chahin: A Syrian Maronite Merchant and the 'Recueil des historiens des croisades.'”

Tomorrow (Monday 2/17) at 5:15 PM ET. Join us on the sixth floor of Penn's Van Pelt Library, or on Zoom (DM for link)!

Hey, Penn's Workshop in the History of Material Texts is here now! I use videos of these lectures in my teaching every semester. @pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social

Penn's Workshop in the History of Material Texts Founded by Peter Stallybrass in 1993, the Workshop in the History of Material Texts has been influential in its broad approach to the topic. We are interested in all aspects of how texts take material...

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