Thursdays at 5:30pm, room SR-24, Faculty of English, 9 West Road

Thursday 24 January

Bob Groser (Bibles Production Manager, Cambridge University Press), will talk about materials and processes used in modern Bible manufacture

Thursday 21 February

Elizabeth Upper (Munby Fellow, Cambridge University Library) and Ad Stijnman (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam), ‘Cycles of Invention: The Historical Developments of ‘New’ Innovations in Colour Printing, ca. 1600-1700′

All welcome. Wine & soft drinks will be served at the start of the seminar.

For more information, please contact Jason Scott-Warren (jes1003@cam.ac.uk), Andrew Zurcher (aez20@cam.ac.uk) or Dunstan Roberts (dcdr2@cam.ac.uk)

Thursdays at 5:30pm, room SR-24, Faculty of English, 9 West Road

Thursday 11 October

Andrew Zurcher, ‘Spenser’s Vomit: Imitation, Language, Materiality’

There are three short optional pre-readings for this seminar–download them here, here and here

Thursday 8 November

Abigail Brundin and Dunstan Roberts, ‘Italian books in an English great house library: The case of Belton House in Lincolnshire’

All welcome. Wine & soft drinks will be served at the start of the seminar.

For more information, please contact Jason Scott-Warren (jes1003@cam.ac.uk), Andrew Zurcher (aez20@cam.ac.uk) or Dunstan Roberts (dcdr2@cam.ac.uk)

Thursday 31 May, 12.30-2, Faculty of English (room tba)

Professor Sukanta Chaudhuri (Jadavpur University) will give a paper entitled

‘Tagore’s Text: An Online Variorum’

Sukanta Chaudhuri is the author of numerous books, including The Metaphysics of Text (Cambridge, 2010). He was a co-founder and Director from 2004-2010 of the Jadavpur School of Cultural Texts and Records.

Thursdays at 5:30pm, room SR-24, Faculty of English, 9 West Road

Thursday 17 May

Juliet Fleming (NYU) will discuss pre-circulated sections from her book-in-progress: Counterproductions: Bibliography After Derrida

For copies, please email Jason Scott-Warren (jes1003@cam.ac.uk)

Thursday 31 May

Daniel Wakelin (St Hilda’s, Oxford)

‘Some Scribes Thinking’

For more information, contact Sarah Cain (stc22@cam.ac.uk)

9 February New Directions in Early Modern Book History

Seminars take place on Thursdays within term at 5:30 in S-R24 in the Faculty of English, 9 West Road, Cambridge.

For more information, contact Sarah Cain, Corpus Christi College (stc22@cam.ac.uk), Jason Scott-Warren, Faculty of English (jes1003@cam.ac.uk), or Andrew Zurcher, Queens’ College (aez20@cam.ac.uk)

13 October, John Rink (Faculty of Music), ‘The Virtual Chopin’

10 November, Linda Bree (Cambridge University Press), ‘Scholarly Publishing and Technological Change’

Seminars take place on Thursdays within term at 5:30 in S-R24 in the Faculty of English, 9 West Road, Cambridge.

For more information, contact Daniel Wakelin, Faculty of English (dlw22@cam.ac.uk) or Sarah Cain, Corpus Christi College (stc22@cam.ac.uk).

5 May Professor James Raven (University of Essex): The Sites of Printing and Bookselling in London in the Eighteenth Century

19 May Reading group on recent work on paratexts and the history of the book. Texts for discussion (below) are online via the Faculty Library’s CamTools site: please email Sarah Cain (stc22@cam.ac.uk) for further details or hard copy.
– William Sherman, ‘On the Threshold: Architecture, Paratext, and Early Print Culture’, in Agent of Change: Print Culture Studies after Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, ed. Baron/Lindquist/Shevlin (Amherst, 2007), 67-81; and
– Franco Moretti, ‘Style, Inc. Reflections on Seven Thousand Titles (British Novels, 1740-1850)’, and Katie Trumpener, ‘Critical Response I: Paratext and Genre System: A Response to Franco Moretti’, Critical Inquiry, 36 (2009), 134-74.

The Cultures of the Digital Economy Institute (Anglia Ruskin University) and the Centre for Material Texts (University of Cambridge) present:

THE BOOK PUBLISHING HISTORIES SEMINAR SERIES

Seminar 1: Renaissance Texts and Publishing

Monday 23rd May 2011 5-6.45pm, Morison Room, Cambridge University Library

Professor Jane Taylor (Durham University) on matters of taste in sixteenth-century publishing

and

Professor Eugene Giddens (Anglia Ruskin University) on preparing digital editions of early modern literature

For more information please contact Dr Leah Tether: leah.tether@anglia.ac.uk

Thursday 27 January, 5:30pm, SR-24, Faculty of English
Harriet Phillips: ‘Waste Paper: Early Modern Broadsides as Popular Print’; and Marie Léger-St-Jean: ‘“long for the penny number and the weekly woodcut”: Early Victorian Popular Authors and their Readers’

Thursday 24 February, 5:30pm
Managing curious collections: Stuart Stone (Radzinowicz Library): a visit to the collection of ‘banned books’ from the Home Office; Katie Birkwood (St John’s College Library), on managing the Fred Hoyle Collection of papers, books and other material texts.

(Please note that the seminar on 24 February will begin at 5.30pm in the Radzinowicz Library at the front of the Institute of Criminology on the Sidgwick Site, for a ‘show and tell’ of banned books, and will move for the second presentation and discussion to the Faculty of English.)

All welcome. For information, this term contact Sarah Cain (stc22@cam.ac.uk)

This term’s seminars in the History of Material Texts are as follows.

Thursday 14 Oct, 5.30, room SR-24 in the Faculty of English Prof. Anne Coldiron (Florida State University) Printers Without Borders: Translation and Literary Transnationalism in the Long Sixteenth Century

Thursday 11 Nov, 5.30, room SR-24 in the Faculty of English Prof. Jim Secord (HPS, University of Cambridge) Nebular Visions: Image and Text in John Pringle Nichol’s Architecture of the Heavens

All are welcome. The seminar is a forum for research across disciplines and across periods, for all those interested in the history of the book, bibliography, histories and theories of reading, and the intersections between intellectual history and material culture, including the creation, production, publication, distribution, reception, transmission, editing and subsequent history of texts as material objects in manuscript, print, digital media or other forms.

For information, contact this term Daniel Wakelin (dlw22@cam.ac.uk).