We have a few more spaces for the workshop on the legacy of paper for this coming Thursday, if you would like to attend, please get in touch with Thai-Catherine Matthews (tcm36@cam.ac.uk) to sign up.
To register for Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYtdequqDIqE9FiqvwPauqjhOYPuDDiT8vM
9.00: Arrival
9.15: Welcome by Orietta Da Rold (University of Cambridge)
9.30-11.00: Material Considerations: Close-Reading the Page or The Science of the Page
Chair: Thai-Catherine Matthews (Johns Hopkins University)
Siddharth Soni (University of Cambridge)/Avani Tandon-Vieira (University of Cambridge) - 'Digital Decolonization of the Archives'
Darshil Shah (University of Cambridge) - 'Learnings From the Study of 4,000-Year-Old Egyptian Linen Textiles'
Silvia Vignolini/Bruno Frka-Petesic (University of Cambridge) - 'New Technologies of Paper Studies'
Sarah Fiddyment (University of Cambridge) - 'Exploring book production through Biocodicology'
15 minute break (coffee break)
11.15-12.30: Material Communities: Paper as Nexus
Chair: Thai-Catherine Matthews (Johns Hopkins University)
Georgina Wilson (University of Cambridge) - 'Hidden Depths: Rethinking Authorship in "Sejanus his Fall"'
Heather Wolfe (The Folger Library) - 'John Spilman's paper legacy reconsidered: English writing paper, 1580s-1610s'
Nick Posegay - 'Watermarks and Water Damage: What An Egyptian Archive Can Tell Us About European Paper'
12.30-14.00: End of Morning Discussion Followed by Lunch (GR/04)
14.00-14.45: Materiality in the Archives: The 'Thing' About Paper
Chair: Orietta Da Rold (University of Cambridge)
Anne Lester (Johns Hopkins University) - 'Other Things: Thing Theory in the Archives'
Caroline Goodson (University of Cambridge) - 'Understanding Late Papyrus in Europe'
Thai-Catherine Matthews (Johns Hopkins University) - '"Th'entente is al": Can Materiality Disclose the Subjectivity of a Love Object?'
14.45-15.15: Concluding Remarks and Next Steps
Link to poster: http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/news/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Legacies-of-Paper_Flyer-scaled.jpg
