The Virtual Materiality of Texts: Book History During a Pandemic

Date
Nov 20, 2020, 1:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Zoom
Related link
Link to Event page
Virtual Materiality Event

Speakers

  • Emmanuel C. Bourbouhakis
  • Tia Blassingame
  • Jesse R. Erickson
  • Anthony Grafton
  • Leah Price
  • Nigel Smith
  • Whitney Trettien

Details

A colloquium on the status of book, manuscript and media history during Covid-19, including the challenges of accessing archival resources and ideas for teaching with material texts.

Watch the video of the colloquium here.

Organizers: Jin-Woo Choi (History), Anthony Grafton (History), Jennifer Loessy (Center for Collaborative History), Leah Price (Rutgers University), Nigel Smith (English), and Anna Speyart van Woerden (History).