🔔 Happening tomorrow!
We look forward to welcoming Prof. Gamer and Prof. Parker, and hope you can join us - either in-person on the sixth floor of Penn's Van Pelt Library or remotely on Zoom!
🗓️ April 20
🕔 5:15 PM EST
Full details are at pennmaterialtexts.org.
Coming up in the Material texts workshop series this Monday, April 20, at 5:15pm EST, we welcome Michael Gamer (UPenn) and Deven Parker (Univ. of Glasgow), who will present on "Slow History on Stage (and Page): The Other Burney Collection." Hope to see you there!
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🔔 Reminder: We look forward to welcoming Prof. Brophy tomorrow, and hope that you can join us!
“Printing Political Dissent: German Publishers in the Age of Revolutions.”
🗓️ April 13 • 5:15 PM EST
In person on the sixth floor of Penn's Van Pelt Library & on Zoom.
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Next up in the History of Material Texts seminar series, we look forward to welcoming James Brophy (University of Delaware), who will speak on “Printing Political Dissent: German Publishers in the Age of Revolutions.”
April 13 🕔 5:15 PM EST • In person @Penn + Zoom
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Reminder! We hope that you can join us tomorrow evening for Prof. Drpić's talk !
April 6 • 🕔 5:15 PM EST
Attend either in-person on the sixth floor of Penn's Van Pelt Library, or remotely on Zoom.
(See pennmaterialtexts.org for details.)
This Monday, April 6, we welcome Ivan Drpić (UPenn), who will speak on “Painters at Play: The Excessive Epigraphy of a Late Byzantine Church.”
🕔 5:15 PM EST
📍At Van Pelt Library & on Zoom
Full details at: pennmaterialtexts.org
(Image: St. Merkourios, Church of the Virgin Peribleptos, Ohrid.)
✨We are thrilled to welcome Peter Stallybrass and Ann Rosalind Jones tomorrow at 5:15pm EST - hope to see you there!
Attend in-person on the sixth floor of Penn's Van Pelt Library or remotely via Zoom.
March 30• 🕔 5:15 PM EST
Full details at: pennmaterialtexts.org
In the lead-up to Monday's presentation, Ann Rosalind Jones (Smith College) speaks on "Style and Status in Four Tudor Portraits" at the Philadelphia Art Museum.
🗓️ March 28• 5:15 PM EST • In-person and on Zoom!
Info and Registration: www.philamuseum.org/events/eda-g...
The Workshop in the History of Material Texts hosts another special presentation this coming Monday, March 30!
Peter Stallybrass, the founder of this workshop, and Ann Rosalind Jones, jointly present on “Expelling European Jews? The Printing and Reprinting of a Renaissance Costume Book.”
The third and final lecture by Joan Judge in the Rosenbach Lecture series in Bibliography happens tomorrow, Thursday March 26, at 5:30pm ET.
🖼️ Itinerant Chinese Texts and Images: Toward Methodologies for Tracing Epistemes
🕠 5:30 PM ET • In-person and Zoom!
Today, the Workshop in the History of Material Texts co-hosts the first of the 2026 Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography, as we welcome Joan Judge (York University).
Please note the change in timings from our regular programming, and the need to register for a separate zoom link this week.
Thu, Mar 26
🖼️ Itinerant Chinese Texts and Images: Toward Methodologies for Tracing Epistemes
🕠 5:30 PM ET
Tue, Mar 24
📘 Chinese How-To Books: Toward a Definition of Vernacular Knowledge
🕠 5:30 PM ET
Monday, Mar 23
📖 Chinese Common Readers: Toward an Understanding of Vernacular Literacy
🕠 5:30 PM ET (note later start!)
📌 Separate zoom registration for Monday
📚 Next week, Penn's Material Texts co-presents the 2026 Rosenbach Lectures!
Joan Judge (York): Common Knowers: Readers, Books, and the Making of Vernacular Knowledge in China
🗓️ Mar 23, 24, 26 • 🕠 5:30 PM ET
📍 Hybrid
🔗 www.library.upenn.edu/events/asw-r...
📌 Separate zoom registration for Monday
📣 Reminder! Happening tomorrow!
We are looking forward to Prof. Lupton's talk, and hope you can join us - either in-person on the sixth floor of Penn's Van Pelt Library or remotely on Zoom!
🗓️ March 16
🕔 5:15 PM EST
(See pennmaterialtexts.org for details.)
✨ This Monday, we’re delighted to welcome Christina Lupton (University of Pennsylvania) for a talk on her new book project, titled “When Writing Isn’t Work: Ronald Fraser, the New Left Review, and the ‘Work’ Essays (1964-9).”
🗓️ March 16 • 5:15 PM EST • In-person and on Zoom!
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The workshop in the History of Material Texts will not be meeting this coming week as we are closed for Spring Break. We reconvene on March 16.
Earlier talks (2020–present) are available on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@pennsworksh...
We hope that you can join us tomorrow evening for Prof. Teuscher's presentation at the workshop!
Mar 2 • 🕔 5:15 PM EST
Attend either in-person on the sixth floor of Penn's Van Pelt Library, or remotely on Zoom.
(See pennmaterialtexts.org for details.)
This coming Monday, March 2, at 5:15 pm EST, we are thrilled to welcome Simon Teuscher (University of Zurich) to the workshop, where he will speak on “Kinship Diagrams and the Quest to Dematerialize Relatedness.”
📍At Penn's Van Pelt Library & on Zoom 💻!
Full details at: pennmaterialtexts.org
We regret to announce that Prof. Blum’s presentation this Monday has been cancelled due to the major winter storm affecting Philadelphia. We look forward to welcoming her to the workshop in the coming academic year. Stay tuned for updates!
Did you know you don’t have to wait until every Monday to dive into material texts? 📚✨
Catch up on past talks (2020–present) anytime on our YouTube channel - revisit old favorites or catch up on what you missed!
Scholarship on demand, whenever curiosity strikes.
▶️ www.youtube.com/@pennsworksh...
Next week in our seminar series, Monday, February 23, at 5:15 pm EST, we are thrilled to welcome Hester Blum ((Washington Univ. in St. Louis) who will speak on “Polar Erratics."
At Penn & on Zoom!
Full details at: pennmaterialtexts.org
✨John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social speaks tomorrow at 5:15pm EST - hope that you can make it!
Attend in-person on the sixth floor of Penn's Van Pelt Library or remotely via Zoom.
Feb 16 • 🕔 5:15 PM EST
Full details at: pennmaterialtexts.org
(Pic: Indenture form, Historical Society of Pennsylvania)
This Monday, Feb 16, 5:15pm EST
📚 We welcome John Garcia (American Antiquarian Society) @jgarc.bsky.social for “Black Lives in the Early U.S. Book Trades.”
Join us for a rich conversation on race, labor, and the history of print.
Details: pennmaterialtexts.org
Hope to see you there!
Hope that you can join us this evening as we welcome John Bidwell for this special talk!
In person on the sixth floor of Penn's Van Pelt Library & on Zoom.
Feb 9 • 🕔 5:15 PM EST
See pennmaterialtexts.org for details.
(Pic: Engraving. Philadelphia: Joseph Leeds, 1873. The New York Public Library.)
📜 Join us this Monday as we mark the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence with John Bidwell (Morgan Library & Museum), speaking on “Printed Declarations: Life, Liberty, Editions, Issues, and States.”
Feb 9 • 🕔 5:15 PM EST • In person @Penn + Zoom
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Today! Priya Nambrath (University of Pennsylvania), will present on “Scribal Worlds in Motion: Loss, Identity, Afterlives.”
🗓️ February 2 • 5:15 PM EST • Hybrid
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Next up! This Monday, February 2, 5:15pm ✨
Priya Nambrath (Fellow in the History of Material Texts, University of Pennsylvania) will be talking about “Scribal Worlds in Motion: Loss, Identity, Afterlives.”
In person and on Zoom
Details: pennmaterialtexts.org
Would love to see you there!
Tomorrow! The Workshop in the History of Material Texts welcomes Adrian Johns for a talk on “Looking for Labels: The Science of Safety and the Defenders of Information.”
❄️ Zoom only due to the snow.
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Stay warm, log in from your couch, and let the archives travel to you! ❄️📚