[EKStationers] Fwd: [hist-book] Material Texts: Ian Gadd, February 26

[Wendy Gale]

I thought this might be of interest, for folks who can make it to Philly
this coming Monday afternoon.

        -Sabine

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From: Alexander Ponsen <ponsen at sas.upenn.edu>
Date: Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 10:11 AM
Subject: [hist-book] Material Texts: Ian Gadd, February 26
To: english-hist-book at groups.english.upenn.edu


Dear friends and colleagues,


Please join us Monday, February 26, for this semester’s next meeting
of the Workshop
in the History of Material Texts
<https://www.english.upenn.edu/graduate/working-groups/materialtexts>. We
will convene at our usual time and place: 5:15pm in the Class of 1978
Pavilion in the Kislak Center on the 6th Floor of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library.

We will be welcoming Ian Gadd for a talk entitled: “‘Entered for his copy’:
creating Stationers’ Register Online.” Ian writes:

*The Stationers’ Register is one of the most consulted archival
documents of the early modern period. It is also, frankly, one of the least
understood. First established in 1557 by the London Stationers’ Company to
record the publishing rights of its members and cited in Britain’s first
copyright statute in 1710, it survives in an almost unbroken sequence from
1557 until 1924. It played a crucial role in the development
of Anglo-American copyright.*



*This presentation will provide an account of the development of the
Stationers’ Register during the early modern period, describing its
purpose, its procedures, and its many idiosyncrasies. It will also explain
how a new digital project, ‘Stationers’ Register Online’, aims to transform
our understanding of how early modern ‘copyright’ worked by creating the
first publicly available database of the copy-entries recorded in the
Stationers’ Register. *



Ian Gadd is a Professor of English Literature at Bath Spa University, and
the Academic Director of the Global Academy of Liberal Arts (GALA), an
international network of universities founded by Bath Spa in 2014. He is a
General Editor of the *Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift*,
and was a volume editor for *The History of Oxford University Press* (2013-17).
He is a past president of the Society for the History of Authorship,
Reading and Publishing (SHARP). He wrote his Oxford D.Phil. on
the Stationers’ Company, has taught courses on the Stationers’ Company at
Rare Book School, and is currently editing Liber A, the only major early
modern record in the Company’s archive that has not yet been published.


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Please forward this email widely to any who might be interested, and please
join us on following Mondays throughout the semester. All are welcome!
Those who do not hold University of Pennsylvania ID cards should bring
another form of photo identification in order to enter the library building.



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SPRING 2018 SCHEDULE



Feb 26: Ian Gadd (Bath Spa University), “‘Entered for his copy’: Creating
Stationers’ Register Online”



Mar 5: SPRING BREAK



Mar 12: Peter Stallybrass (Penn), “Whitman: Manuscript in Print”



Mar 19: Sonia Hazard (Franklin & Marshall), “America’s Cargo Cult: How
Joseph Smith Discovered Printing Plates and Founded Mormonism”



Mar 26: Eyal Poleg (Queen Mary, University of London), “The Limits of Book
Technologies: The Messy Implementation of Novel Features in English Bibles,
1200-1600”



Apr 2: André Dombrowski (Penn), “How Multimedial was the 19th Century? The
Case of Photo-Sculpture”



Apr 9: Lodovica Braida (L’Università degli Studi di Milano), “‘Dangerous
Books’. Italian Epistolary Collections in the Sixteenth Century: Censorship
and Self-Censorship”



Apr 16: Roger Chartier (Penn), “Who Is the Author? Translating Shakespeare
in Eighteenth-Century France and Spain: From Voltaire to Moratín”



Apr 23: Michael Suarez (Virginia), “‘A kind of printing:’ The Material
Texts of *Médailles sur les principaux événements du règne de Louis le
Grand* (1702, 1723)”



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