November 21-23, 2013
In partnership with the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia, the Schoenberg Institute of Manuscript Studies at the University of Pennsylvania is pleased to announce the 6th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age. This year's symposium will encourage participants to "think outside the codex" and turn the tables on traditional approaches to manuscript study. We will explore such topics as how format shapes and limits interpretation, use, and production of manuscripts and how technologies have changed and challenged traditional methods of scholarship. We are especially considering instances of and responses to failure in the history of manuscript production and scholarship. In doing so, we hope to provoke new questions and forge new approaches to the study of the pre-modern book.
To kick off the event, a reception and the keynote address will be held Thursday evening, November 21, at the Free Library of Philadelphia. This year's keynote speaker will be Peter Stallybrass, Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Humanities, Professor of English and of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, and Director of the History of the Material Text Seminar at the University of Pennsylvania. The symposium begins Friday morning at the newly renovated Special Collections Center of the University Pennsylvania Libraries. Speakers include:
In addition, four workshops will be held throughout the symposium to offer hands-on exploration of problems and issues related to the study of manuscripts in the digital age.
The Handwritten and the Printed: The limits of format and medium in Japanese premodern books
Leaders: Julie Davis and Linda Chance, University of Pennsylvania
Demo Workshop for T-Pen: Transcription for paleographical and editorial notation
Leader: James Ginther, Saint Louis University
Scholarship Outside the Codex: Citation-based digital workflows for integrating objects, images and text without making a mess
Leader: Christopher Blackwell, Furman University
Of Apples and Apple Pie: Exploring the relationship between raw data and digital scholarship
Leaders: Dot Porter and Doug Emery, University of Pennsylvania
For more information go to: http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/lectures/ljs_symposium6.html