Seminars in the History of Material Texts
Thursdays at 5.30 pm, SR-24 (second floor), Faculty of English, 9 West Rd
24 April — Mark Towsey (History, Liverpool)
‘Community Libraries: Connecting Readers in the Atlantic World, 1650-1850’
1 May — Peter Mandler (History, Cambridge)
‘Good Reading for the Million: The Advent of the Mass-Market Non-Fiction Paperback’
15 May — Laura Moretti (AMES, Cambridge)
‘Broadsides in Early Modern Japan: The Osaka Publisher Shioya Kihei and his ‘Kobanzuke”
29 May — Hildegard Diemberger and Stephen Hugh-Jones (Social Anthropology, Cambridge)
‘Palm-leaf, paper, Digital Dharma; Exploring the Materiality of Tibetan Buddhist Texts and their Transformations’
All welcome.
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)