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Penn Material Texts @pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social · 45m

📣 A special History of Material Texts session! We're thrilled to hear Rita de Cássia do Monte Lima (Penn), 2026 Stallybrass Prize winner, present “The Natural and the Strange: Seeing and Making Plants in the Schoenberg Herbal (LJS 419).” Oct. 19 · 5:15 pm ET 📍 Penn + Zoom pennmaterialtexts.org

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Penn Material Texts @pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

REMINDER: Today at 5:15 pm ET! Join us for David McKnight’s talk, “Not Guilty: Frances Steloff vs. the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice.” 📍 Van Pelt Library + Zoom Details: pennmaterialtexts.org

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Penn Material Texts @pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

At our next meeting on Monday, October 12, at 5:15 pm EST, we are thrilled to welcome David McKnight to the workshop, for a talk titled “Not Guilty: Frances Steloff vs. the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice." 📍In-person @Van Pelt + zoom Full details at: pennmaterialtexts.org

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Penn Material Texts @pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

📣 Reminder! Happening soon! We are looking forward to Prof. Barnes' talk, and hope you can join us - either in-person on the sixth floor of Penn's Van Pelt Library or remotely on Zoom! 🗓️ October 5 🕔 5:15 PM EST (See pennmaterialtexts.org for details.)

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Penn Material Texts @pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

✨ Tomorrow, we are thrilled to welcome Rhae Lynn Barnes for a talk on "A Dark Cast: Disability, Blackface, and the Print Culture of Roosevelt's WPA." In-person on the sixth floor of Penn's Van Pelt Library or remotely via Zoom. October 5 • 🕔 5:15 PM EST Full details at: pennmaterialtexts.org

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Penn Material Texts @pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Reminder! We hope that you can join us this evening for Prof. Del Soldato's talk! September 28 • 🕔 5:15 PM EST Attend in person on the sixth floor of Penn's Van Pelt Library, or remotely on Zoom. (See pennmaterialtexts.org for details.)

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Penn Material Texts @pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Poison, medicine, biblical exegesis—and conspiracy philology. ☠️ Join us next Monday as we welcome Eva Del Soldato (Penn) for a talk titled “Who Poisoned Jesus Christ? A Seventeenth-Century Franciscan and Conspiracy Philology.” 📅 Sept. 28, 5:15 PM ET 📍 Van Pelt + Zoom 🔗 pennmaterialtexts.org

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Penn Material Texts @pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Reminder: We look forward to welcoming Prof. Rousmaniere today, and hope that you can join us! “From Page to Exhibition: Creating Art of Manga” 🗓️ September 21 • 5:15 PM EST In person on the sixth floor of Penn's Van Pelt Library & on Zoom. 🔗 pennmaterialtexts.org

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Penn Material Texts @pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This Monday, September 21, we welcome Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere (MOA Museum of Art, and Professor Emerita at the University of East Anglia), who will speak on “From Page to Exhibition: Creating Art of Manga” 🕔 5:15 PM EST 📍At Van Pelt Library & on Zoom Full details at: pennmaterialtexts.org

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Penn Material Texts @pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

📣 We hope you can join us for the finale of our Spring 2026 seminar series! This evening, we welcome Roger Chartier (Collège de France / University of Pennsylvania) for a talk titled: “Revolution and Erasure: France 1789” 🕔 5:15 PM EST 📍 Van Pelt Library & on Zoom pennmaterialtexts.org

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Penn Material Texts @pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

🔔 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.

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Penn Material Texts @pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

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! 📍 pennmaterialtexts.org

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Penn Material Texts @pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

🔔 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. 🔗 pennmaterialtexts.org

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Penn Material Texts @pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

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 📍 pennmaterialtexts.org

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Penn Material Texts @pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

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.)

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Penn Material Texts @pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

✨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

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Penn Material Texts @pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

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...

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Penn Material Texts @pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

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!

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Penn Material Texts @pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

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.

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Penn Material Texts @pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Monday, Mar 23 📖 Chinese Common Readers: Toward an Understanding of Vernacular Literacy 🕠 5:30 PM ET (note later start!) 📌 Separate zoom registration for Monday

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Penn Material Texts @pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

📣 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.)

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Penn Material Texts @pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

✨ 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! 🔗 pennmaterialtexts.org

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Penn Material Texts @pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

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

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Penn Material Texts @pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

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

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Penn Material Texts @pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

✨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)

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Penn Material Texts @pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

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!

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Penn Material Texts @pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

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.)

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Penn Material Texts @pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

📜 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 📍 pennmaterialtexts.org

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Penn Material Texts @pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Today! Priya Nambrath (University of Pennsylvania), will present on “Scribal Worlds in Motion: Loss, Identity, Afterlives.” 🗓️ February 2 • 5:15 PM EST • Hybrid 🔗 pennmaterialtexts.org

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Penn Material Texts @pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

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!

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Penn Material Texts @pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

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. 🔗 pennmaterialtexts.org Stay warm, log in from your couch, and let the archives travel to you! ❄️📚

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Penn Material Texts @pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

🟡🎶 Tomorrow, 5:15 PM EST! ✨📜 Final Fall ’25 seminar with Emily Green on “Bad Candles, Glasses, Earthquakes & Headaches: Reasons for Musical Error c.1770.” 🌐 Hybrid event — details at pennmaterialtexts.org.

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Penn Material Texts @pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

♫ Final seminar of the season! This Mon, Dec 1 · 5:15 PM EST, we welcome Emily Green for “Of Bad Candles and Glasses, Earthquakes, and Headaches: Reasons for Musical Error around 1770.” 🎶 🔥 Don’t miss this one — in person at Penn & on Zoom. Details: pennmaterialtexts.org

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Penn Material Texts @pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

✨ Join us this Monday as we dive into the vibrant world of cloth, color, and text! We’re welcoming Sylvia Houghteling (Bryn Mawr College) for a talk titled “To Dye a Page, to Weave a Book: Cloth Materials and Texts in South Asia.” 🗓️ Nov 24 • 5:15 PM EST • Hybrid 🔗 pennmaterialtexts.org

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Penn Material Texts @pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

We welcome Prof. Francesco Marco Aresu, as he takes us on a deep dive into Scribe 106's elusive body of work - tomorrow at 5:15pm EST. We hope you can join us! In person and on zoom - details at pennmaterialtexts.org

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Penn Material Texts @pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Next up in our seminar series, this Monday, November 17, at 5:15 pm EST, we are thrilled to welcome Francesco Marco Aresu who will speak on "Scribe 106: The Portfolio of a Florentine Humanistic Scribe." At Penn & on Zoom! Full details at: pennmaterialtexts.org

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Penn Material Texts @pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Hope you can join us for this talk! Attend either in-person on the sixth floor of Penn's Van Pelt Library, or remotely on Zoom. (See pennmaterialtexts.org for details.)

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Penn Material Texts @pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

At our next meeting on Monday, November 10, at 5:15pm, we welcome Prof. Kate Meng Brassel to the workshop, for a talk titled “Binding and the Discipline: Some Paths around the Classics.” In-person and on zoom! Full details at: pennmaterialtexts.org

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Penn Material Texts @pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

For our next talk, we are thrilled to welcome Sonja Drimmer (UMass Amherst) for a talk titled: “Optics: Heraldry and the Preprint History of Print.” Monday, November 3 at 5:15 PM Eastern — 6th floor of Penn's Van Pelt Library (and on Zoom). As always, full details at: pennmaterialtexts.org

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Penn Material Texts @pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

This Monday, October 27 at 5:15 PM ET, we look forward to welcoming Josh Mugler to the History of Material Texts workshop for a talk titled “Manuscripts and Violence in Modern Mesopotamia” At in person at Penn & on Zoom- hope to see you there! See pennmaterialtexts.org for details.

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Penn Material Texts @pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Hope to see you at this event tomorrow at 5:15 PM EST - either in-person on the sixth floor of Penn's Van Pelt Library or remotely on Zoom! (See pennmaterialtexts.org for details.)

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Penn Material Texts @pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

This Monday, October 20 at 5:15 PM ET, we are thrilled to welcome Caroline Duroselle-Melish to the workshop for a talk titled “The Many Lives of Renaissance Woodblocks: The Case of Ulisse Aldrovandi's Collection.” At Penn & on Zoom: See pennmaterialtexts.org for details.

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Penn Material Texts @pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Monday, October 6 at 5:15PM ET, we welcome Dee E. Andrews & Christopher S. Parmenter to the workshop for a talk titled “Thomas Clarkson’s Latin Essay: Radical Antislavery, Classical Reception, and Abolitionist Print in the Age of Revolution." At Penn & on Zoom! Full details at: pennmaterialtexts.org

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Penn Material Texts @pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

This event with Jean-Christophe Cloutier takes place tomorrow at 5:15 PM Eastern, on the 6th floor of Penn's Van Pelt Library (and on Zoom). Hope to see you there! (Pics: The Maggie Cassidy notebooks. Source: Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature at the NYPL)

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Penn Material Texts @pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Monday, September 29 at 5:15 PM ET, we will welcome Jean-Christophe Cloutier to the workshop for a talk titled “These thoughts were all in French, almost untranslatable”: The Bilingual Manuscript Notebooks of Kerouac’s Maggie Cassidy. At Penn & on Zoom! Full details at: pennmaterialtexts.org

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Penn Material Texts @pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

This Monday, September 22, at 5:15pm, we welcome Megan Heffernan to the workshop, for a talk titled "Between Libraries: The Maintenance of Early Modernity” In-person and on zoom! Full details at: pennmaterialtexts.org

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Penn Material Texts @pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

At our next meeting on Monday, September 15, at 5:15pm, we welcome Prof. Sophia Rosenfeld to the workshop, for a talk titled "The Age of Choice Technology.” In-person and on zoom! Full details at: pennmaterialtexts.org

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Penn Material Texts @pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Our Fall 2025 History of Material Texts seminar series kicks off this Monday, Sep. 8, at 5:15pm! We welcome Dr. Anne Tiballi, Penn Museum's Director of Academic Engagement. She will speak on "Text, Language, Object: The Utility of Textual Thinking in the Study of Archaeological Materials."

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Penn Material Texts @pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

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!

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Penn Material Texts @pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

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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