Past events
March 22 2012: Sound and Textuality: a joint session between the Material Texts Network and the Department of English and Humanities Graduate Lecture Series. This will be co-convened by James Emmott and Jonathan Tee.
Jennifer Harmer and Steven Breeze (Birkbeck): Sound and Textuality in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Tom F. Wright (UEA): Orality and the Early American Press.
Mark Jackson (Birkbeck): Sound and the Emergence of Abstraction in Modernism.
March 5 2012: Nineteenth Century Photo Books: a joint seminar between the Birkbeck Forum for Nineteenth Century Studies and the Material Texts Network. Chaired by Patrizia di Bello.
Magnus Bremmer (Research School of Aesthetics, Stockholm University) Photo-Textual Cities: 19th century photographic views of Stockholm. Andrew Megaw (Ligatus Research Centre, CCW Graduate School, UAL) Anatomising 19th Century Photographically Illustrated Books at Trinity College Library Dublin.
December 2011: Readers writing in books
Dr. Jason Scott-Warren (Cambridge), 'Early Modern Marginalia and the Grain of the Text'
Dr. Stephen Colclough (Bangor), 'Still at the margins? Annotation Strategies and the History of the Modern Book'
16 April: A One-Day Conference - Book Destruction: Burning, Pulping, Eating, Cutting ...
Convenors: Gill Partington and Adam Smyth.
Where? Beveridge Hall, Senate House
March 2011: Panel discussion: current Birkbeck research on material texts
Dr Gill Partington, Dr Carol Watts, and Dr Isabel Davis
27 January 2011: Retrieving the text of David Livingstone's unpublished final diary 1870-73
Dr Debbie Harrison discussed the construction of a critical electronic edition and spectral image database of David Livingstone’s final field diaries, which he wrote under extreme personal and environmental conditions, using improvised paper and ink. (When his ink ran low, he used pigments made from local plants.) The diaries have never been published in their original uncensored format.
18 November 2010: Cutting and Pasting, 1600-1900
With papers from Dr Luisa Cale, Dr Vicky Mills, & Dr Adam Smyth, chaired by Dr Patrizia di Bello.
