History of Material Texts Seminar Series
Thursday 27 May 2010, 5.30 p.m.
Subha Mukherji (Downing) will speak on ‘The voice of things: some archival evidence’, and Christopher Burlinson (Jesus) on ‘Maps and letters in the early modern archive’.
Room SR-24 in the Faculty of English, 9 West Road, Cambridge.
All welcome. For further details, contact Daniel Wakelin (dlw22@cam.ac.uk) or Sarah Cain (stc22@cam.ac.uk). .
On Friday 21 May at 5pm in the Morison Room, University Library there will be a CMT seminar on extra-illustration. Dr Luisa Cale and Dr Lucy Peltz will explore the origins and rise of extra-illustration and examine some important examples of this creative practice. Extra-illustrated materials from the UL’s collections will be available for inspection.
The seminar coincides with the final week of the Folger Library’s exhibition of extra-illustration, ‘Extending the Book’:
If you’d like to attend the seminar, please email Mina Gorji (mg473@cam.ac.uk).
History of Material Texts Seminar Series
The first meeting this term of the seminar in the History of Material Texts will take place on Thursday 29 April 2010 at 5.30 in room SR-24 in the Faculty of English, 9 West Rd, Cambridge. All welcome.
This session will be a discussion of two recent articles and new directions in the study of material texts, particularly in the light of the recent CMT conference [see ‘Blog’ above].
The articles are:
Leah Price, ‘From the History of a Book to the “History of the Book”‘, Representations 108 (2009), 120-38
Bill Brown, ‘Obects, Others, and Us (The Refabrication of Things)’, Critical Inquiry 36 (2010), 183-207
Both articles are available online via JSTOR and LION, or via the Faculty’s CAMTOOLS site at
https://camtools.cam.ac.uk/access/content/group/f255c6ab-f8f4-4118-008e-c2b85f3b426d/ Graduate%20_%20Senior%20Seminar/SCAN1628_000.pdf https://camtools.cam.ac.uk/access/content/group/f255c6ab-f8f4-4118-008e-c2b85f3b426d/ Graduate%20_%20Senior%20Seminar/SCAN1629_000.pdf
THE CAMBRIDGE GROUP FOR IRISH STUDIES EASTER TERM 2010
27th April, 8.45 p.m. The Parlour, Magdalene College
Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail
Aspects of Manuscript Transmission in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Ireland
Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail is a lecturer at the School of Irish, Celtic Studies, Irish Folklore and Linguistics, at the University College Dublin. Irish manuscript studies in recent years have provided evidence for the canny ability of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century scribes to exercise editorial judgements which were not only political in intention, but were guided by an aesthetic sense to fashion and refashion literary narrative itself. This is of relevance to an overall re-appraisal of the role of the scribe as a dynamic transmitter of narrative. Ní Úrdail’s paper will present some evidence based on her forthcoming edition of Cath Cluana Tarbh (The Battle of Clontarf), one of the most popular prose texts to have been transmitted in Irish manuscripts dating from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
History of Material Texts seminar series
5.30 on Thursday 18 February 2010. Room GR06-07, Faculty of English, Cambridge
Hester Lees-Jeffries (St Catharine’s): Shakespeare: Text, Memory, Object; and Kit Grover (designer), in conversation, on literary souvenirs. Participants are invited, but not required, to bring literary souvenirs and memorabilia for a ‘show and tell’ discussion.
These seminars are open to anybody interested in the history and theory of book production and the material forms of texts, the history of reading, reception studies or editing.
The History of Material Texts seminars are organized by Daniel Wakelin and Sarah Cain.