Thursday 7 May, 5 pm, Board Room, Faculty of English
HELEN MAGOWAN (Cambridge), ‘Reading writing (back) into Japanese Literature’
Thursday 21 May, 5pm, Board Room, Faculty of English
LAURA MORETTI (AMES, Cambridge), ‘Touch Me! Books with Engineered Design from Early Modern Japan’.
All welcome.
Thursday 12 February, 5 pm, Board Room, Faculty of English
DROR WEIL (Cambridge), ‘Polyglossia, Trans-local Materialities and Modalities of Performance: Jewish Textualities in Early Modern China’
Wednesday 25 February, 5pm, Historical Printing Room, CUL [POSTPONED]
MADISON BENNETT and DAVID MACFARLANE, ‘From Press to Protest: A Workshop in Historical Printing’
Thursday 12 March, 5 pm, Board Room, Faculty of English
ALICE WICKENDEN (Cambridge), ‘Halliwell-Phillipps, theft, and the problem of identifying manuscripts’
Thursday 16 October, 5 pm, Board Room, Faculty of English
Drew Milne (Cambridge), ‘Underdeterminations: towards a history of the theatre programme’
All welcome
Thursday 8 May, 5 pm, Board Room, Faculty of English
Joseph Hone (Newcastle), ‘T.J. Wise’s Book Hospital: A Further Study in Theft and Sophistication’
Thursday 22 May, 5 pm, Board Room, Faculty of English
Sheryl Wombell (Cambridge), ‘Mobility, Materiality, and Temporality in the Early Modern Medical Recipe Collections at the New York Academy of Medicine Library’
All welcome
Thursday 30 January 5.30 pm [note time], Board Room, Faculty of English
Satoko Tokunaga (Keio), ‘Hagiographies in Transit: Caxton’s Golden Legend and its Materialities’
Thursday 27 February, 5 pm, Board Room, Faculty of English
Alessandro Bianchi (University Library), ‘Bookbinding, Bibliophilia, and a Passion for Japan: The Collection of Eugène Gillet (1859–1938)’
Thursday 6 March, 5 pm, Board Room, Faculty of English
Katharina Boehm (Passau), ‘“Pageants of Pasteboard and Buckram”: Antiquarian Practices and the Historical Imagination in the Long Eighteenth Century’
[This seminar will be run jointly with the Eighteenth Century and Romantic Studies seminar]
Thursday 31 October, 5 pm, Board Room, Faculty of English
Abigail Williams (Oxford), ‘Reading it Wrong: Misinterpretation and Befuddlement in Eighteenth Century Print Culture’
Thursday 7 November, 5 pm, Board Room, Faculty of English
Sarah Haggarty (Cambridge), ‘The folded familiar letter as material and chronotope’
[This seminar will be run jointly with the Eighteenth Century and Romantic Studies seminar]
Thursday 28 November, 5 pm, Board Room, Faculty of English
Ruth Abbott (Cambridge) and Chloe Steel (artist), ‘Blank Forms for Future Applications’
All welcome.
Thursday 15 February, 5.30 pm, Board Room, Faculty of English
Dahlia Porter (Glasgow)
‘The 18th-century Illustrated Catalogue: List Logics, Identical Objects, Epistemic Images?’
This seminar will be held in association with the Eighteenth Century and Romantic Studies Graduate Seminar. For a Teams link, please email the convenors: 18cRcambridge@gmail.com (links will be provided shortly before the seminar begins).
Thursday 7 March, 5 pm [display available for viewing from 4.30 pm], Milstein Seminar Room, University Library
Irene Fabry-Tehranchi (Cambridge University Library)
‘French and English caricatures of the Franco-Prussian war (1870) at Cambridge University Library’
All welcome
Thursday 12 October, 5 pm, Board Room, Faculty of English
Justine Provino (University of Cambridge)
‘30 years of a self-destructive book: Agrippa (a book of the dead), 1992-’
Thursday 9 November, 5 pm, Board Room, Faculty of English
Lucy Sixsmith (University of Cambridge)
‘Handling Bibles in the Nineteenth Century’
Thursday 23 November, 5 pm, Board Room, Faculty of English
Janine Barchas (University of Texas at Austin, Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall)
‘”Lent to Copy”: Art Rentals in the Age of Jane Austen’
This seminar will be held in association with the Eighteenth Century and Romantic Studies Graduate Seminar
Thursday 25 May, 5 pm, Board Room, Faculty of English
Devani Singh (Geneva), ‘Chaucer’s Imperfect Books’
All welcome.
Thursday 9 February, 5 pm, Milstein Room, University Library
Irene Fabry-Tehranchi (Cambridge University Library)
‘French and English caricatures of the Franco-Prussian war (1870) at Cambridge University Library’
Update: This seminar has been cancelled due to UCU strike action.
Thursday 23 February, 5 pm, Board Room, Faculty of English
Brian Cummings (York) will discuss his new book, Bibliophobia: The End and Beginning of the Book (2022)
Thursday 9 March, 5 pm, Board Room, Faculty of English
Erica McAlpine (Oxford), ‘The Poem on the Page’