Symposium on the Book Events

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Symposium on the Book: Diversity in the Archives, Part II
Please join us for the final Symposium on the Book, which this year is addressing Diversity in the Archives. Professor Susan Phillips (Northwestern University) will be our featured plenary speaker, and will give a talk in the second-floor auditorium at 4pm titled "Traveling Salesmen: Trafficking Stereotypes in the Premodern (Print) Marketplace." In her scholarship as well as her teaching, Susie Phillips is interested in the materiality of the…

Symposium on the Book Roundtable: Access and Archives
A Faculty Roundtable on Access and Archives featuring Cynthia Turner Camp (English),  Usree Bhattacharya-Haddad (College of Education), and  Sheryl Vogt (UGA Libraries) Please join us on the 2nd floor of the Special Collections Building. Coffee and Refreshments will be served before and after the roundtable. The Symposium on the Book is sponsored by the Willson Center and the UGA Libraries

“Disability and Divergent Readers: The History of the Book through Other(ed) Senses," Dr. Jonathan Hsy
Professor Jonathan Hsy is this semester's Franklin College Diversity Fellow. Jonathan Hsy is Associate Professor of English at George Washington University and founding co-director of the GW Digital Humanities Institute. He specializes in medieval literature with interests in translation, material culture, and disability studies. He is the author of Trading Tongues: Merchants, Multilingualism, and Medieval Literature (2013), and one of his…

UGA Symposium on the Book: Living Texts
9:30am Teaching Roundtable: Making Archival Material Come Alive in the Classroom 10:45am Coffee and Refreshments Break 11:00am Plenary talk, Diane Dugaw: "Fighting and Sailing Women in Anglo-American Prints, Songs, and History (1600—present)" Lunch on your own 2:00pm Rare Books Workshop: song books, play texts, toy theaters, etc.  

Fighting and Sailing Women in Anglo-American Prints, Songs, and History (1600—present)
Plenary talk for the UGA Symposium on the Book   Folksinger, scholar, and creative writer Dianne Dugaw has published articles, scholarly books, stories, and memoir. Professor of English and Folklore at the University of Oregon, she has performed and lectured at universities, libraries, galleries, and festivals in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. She is the author of books and articles on early modern and 18th-century literature and…
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