04/03/2025
Our Spring Symposium starts tomorrow, and runs through the weekend: Medieval on my Mind!
Symposium on the Book at the University of Georgia
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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
04/03/2025
02/15/2021
Virtual Symposium on the Book this Wednesday (February 17th) at 4:30pm!
Symposium on the Book: Marissa Nicosia "Seasoning: Slaveholding, Spices, and the Circulation of Culinary Knowledge in the Frankland Family Receipt Book," Marissa Nicosia, assistant professor of Renaissance literature, Penn State - Abington. Nicosia has published articles on early modern literature, food culture, and manuscript studies in...
Many thanks to all who participated in today's symposium, especially to the very lucky few in the audience who enjoyed and participated in Professor Dugaw's fascinating and delightful musical talk.
02/22/2017
Tomorrow's Symposium on LIVING TEXTS:
Symposium this week! Living texts: round table on teaching in the archives, rare book workshop, and a special, musical plenary by DIANE DUGAW (Oregon) on warrior women in ballad texts and folk music. This Thursday February 23 9:30am to 3pm. More to come...
Save the date! Fall 2016 Symposium: October 5-6. Theme: TEXTUAL AFTERLIVES.
Mark your calendars: our next symposium is APRIL 7 and 8, 2016! We are partnering with the BIG READ to bring you ECOLOGIES OF THE BOOK, a discussion of poetry, books, and the natural world, with a reading by Camille Dungy and a Plenary Talk by Professor Joshua Calhoun (UW-Madison). Watch this space for more information!
Our stellar collaborators for the Fall Conference, Professors Christy Desmet and Sujata Iyengar, will be ON THE RADIO this afternoon (Wednesday, Nov. 4) talking about Shakespeare, global appropriation and our upcoming conference. Tune in to WUGA (npr) or listen online here at 2:40pm! http://www.wuga.org/index.php
11/02/2015
Want to know what we're doing this fall? We're sponsoring one of the amazing four plenary speakers at UGA's International Conference, APPROPRIATION IN AN AGE OF GLOBAL SHAKESPEARE, November 12 to 14! FREE and open to the public.
05/04/2015
Symposia & Exhibits The Digital Arts Library in Collaboration with the Symposium on the Book was very proud to host the TEXTUAL MACHINES: A SPRING SYMPOSIUM & EXHIBIT, Friday and Saturday April 17-18, 2015, at the...
TEXTUAL MACHINES begins tomorrow, Friday April 17 with an exhibit curated by Jonathan (Romance Languages), Miriam Jacobson (English) and Anne DeVine (Hargrett Library), followed by a talk by guest Gwen Lecor! It all begins at 10:00am on the 3rd floor of the Main Library. The symposium continues on Saturday April 18 at 10:00am and Janet Murray's keynote is at 10:45am.
Mark your calendars! TEXTUAL MACHINES takes place Friday April 17 and Saturday April 18 in the MAIN LIBRARY at UGA!!!
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