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 18^th-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’

Peter Stallybrass (University of Pennsylvania) 

‘The Erasable Ten Commandments: The Decalogue as Wax Tablets’

Friday 11 November, 12.30-2, Portrait Room, Christ’s College

(in association with the Seminar in Early Modern Scholarship and Religion)

Justine Provino (University of Cambridge)

‘30 years of a self-destructive book: Agrippa (a book of the dead), 1992-’

Thursday 24 November, 5 pm, Board Room, Faculty of English.

All welcome

Thursday 5 May, 5 pm, Board Room, Faculty of English 

Stephen Whiteman (Courtauld Institute)

“Books for Princesses and Khans: The Diffuse History of Imperial poems on the Mountain Estate to Escape the Heat”

Thursday 12 May, 5 pm, SR24, Faculty of English

Heather Wolfe (Folger Shakespeare Library)

‘Varieties of Writing Papers in Early Modern England’

All seminars will take place in the Faculty of English, 9 West Road. We will also stream the seminars; please contact jes1003@cam.ac.uk if you would like to join distantly.

Thursday 10 February, 5 pm [rescheduled to 3 March]

Emerson Richards-Hoppe (Pembroke College, Cambridge)
‘Tracing Early Ownership and Examining Readership of the Paris Apocalypse (BnF Ms. fr. 403).’

Thursday 24 February, 5 pm

Jessica Berenbeim and Alexandra da Costa (Cambridge)
‘Front Matter’

All seminars will take place in the Faculty of English, 9 West Road. We will also stream the seminars; please contact jes1003@cam.ac.uk if you would like to join distantly.

Thursday 11 November, 5 pm                     

Gill Partington (Exeter) and Adam Smyth (Oxford) will discuss their new journal, Inscription: The Journal of Material Text: Theory – Practice – History

Thursday 25 November, 5 pm  

Georgina Wilson (Cambridge), ‘“Miscellaneous Tatters”: It-Narratives, Paper, and Literary Composition’

All seminars will take place in GR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Road.

Please register on eventbrite at

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/history-of-material-texts-seminar-tickets-188302737557


and

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/history-of-material-texts-seminar-tickets-188304071547