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

[Lyle H. Gray]

Oh, that _would_ be good to attend.

Lyle

On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 1:54 PM, Wendy Gale <woodwindy at gmail.com> wrote:

> I thought this might be of interest, for folks who can make it to Philly
> this coming Monday afternoon.
>
>         -Sabine
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 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.
>
>
> —
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> —
>
> 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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>
>
>
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