Seminars

Material Texts

Year Founded 2017

Seminar # 787

StatusActive

This seminar brings together from various disciplines scholars who work on the history of the book and the study of material texts in order to place the technical and bibliographical study of text objects in dialogue with cultural studies and both the textually- and the materially-oriented humanist disciplines more broadly. Over recent decades, book history has emerged as a necessarily and productively interdisciplinary field; with this in mind, this seminar focuses on the interpretation of material textual objects from an array of disciplinary perspectives. Our aim is to provide a clearinghouse for emerging methods and work, and a nexus for scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds to discuss and pursue shared interests in the study of the book and the material text.

Chair/s

Alexis Hagadorn

ah333@columbia.edu

Joseph Howley

jah2220@columbia.edu

Rapporteur/s

Joseph Romano

jr3850@columbia.edu

Meeting Schedule

Scheduled

22

Apr

April 22, 20255:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Faculty House

Boundaries, Collaboration, Blurred Edges

Speaker/s

Francisco Trujillo,

Scheduled

06

May

May 6, 20255:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Faculty House

Smooth like the Skin, sprouted like the Seeds: Recovering Tibetan Artisanal Knowledge of Wood’s Materiality

Speaker/s

Yewong Dongchung,

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Past Meetings

Scheduled

25

Mar

March 25, 20255:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Faculty House

Reading Unease: Scribal Practices in Ancient Egyptian Letters

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Speaker/s

Niv Allon, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Scheduled

18

Feb

February 18, 20255:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Faculty House

Archival Practices and the Social Lives of Arabic Manuscripts

Speaker/s

Matthew Keegan, Barnard College

Scheduled

25

Oct

October 25, 202410:00 am - 4:00 pm

Butler Library

Room 523

Columbia University

Unbound: Expanding American Book History & Textual Objects of Intercultural Encounters

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Scheduled

24

Sep

September 24, 20245:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Butler Library

Room 523

Columbia University

Susan Weil’s Livres d’Artiste: The Matter of Visual Metaphors

Speaker/s

Vanessa Troiano,

Scheduled

07

May

May 7, 20245:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Butler Library

Columbia University

Susan Weil’s Livres D’Artiste: The Matter of Visual Metaphors

Scheduled

09

Apr

April 9, 20245:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Faculty House

A Treasure From the Library of Jacques Amyot (1513-1593) Rediscovered in Provins: The Edition of Euripides’ Tragedies by Jean Hervagius (Basel, 1537)

Speaker/s

Luc Duchamp, Fonds Anciens, Ville de Provins

Scheduled

26

Mar

March 26, 20245:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Faculty House

Evidence in Old Books: Identification, Interpretation and Preservation

Speaker/s

Maria Fredericks, Morgan Library and Museum

Scheduled

20

Feb

February 20, 20245:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Butler Library

Room 523

Columbia University

Material as Substrate and Content in Contemporary Artists’ Books

Speaker/s

Russell Maret, Independent scholar/ artist/ printer

Scheduled

30

Jan

January 30, 20245:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Butler Library

Room 523

Columbia University

Woodblock Printers of the Mind: Problems of Analogy in Western and East Asian Descriptive Bibliography

Speaker/s

Devin Fitzgerald, Yale University

Scheduled

12

Dec

December 12, 20235:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Butler Library

Room 522/3

Columbia University

Printing and Metaphor

Speaker/s

Clifton Meador, Appalachian State University

Scheduled

14

Nov

November 14, 20235:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Butler Library

Room 208B

Columbia University

Artists’ Books: A Few Made Strategies and Tactics

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Speaker/s

Marjorie Welish, Independent Scholar, Artist

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