Symposium on the Book at the University of Georgia

Symposium on the Book at the University of Georgia A biannual symposium on the History and Future of the book at UGA. As scholars, writers, intellectuals, teachers, and students, books are our livelihood.

But what if books themselves were our objects of study? Books are bound things, repositories of knowledge, memory systems, complex networks of paper, ink, stitching, board, leather, and manufacture. And books are not fixed in form; they have changed and continue to change to meet the demands and innovations of information culture, from scrolls and tablets to medieval illuminated manuscripts, early

modern commonplace books, nineteenth century serial novels, twentieth century futurist books bound in metal, to twenty-first century digital books and e-readers--the ancient tablet in its most contemporary form. The Symposium on the Book explores the nature of material texts in all their forms, across time and space. We hold two, day-long Saturday symposiums per year, one per semester (November 16, 2013 and February 1, 2014). Each has an invited plenary speaker, an interdisciplinary panel of UGA faculty delivering short papers, a rare books workshop, and a book exhibit curated by graduate students. Sponsored by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, the University of Georgia Libraries, and the University of Georgia Departments of English and History.

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ATHENS,GEORGIA30602

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