Opening event in the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in History of the Book

This event features four flash talks by Arthur Bahr (Literature, MIT), “Between Close and Distant Reading”; Molly Taylor-Poleskey (Map Room, Harvard), “Reading the Raum: Spatial History in Early Modern German Itinerary Books”; Joseph Rezek (English, Boston University), “The Racialization of Print”; and Sarah Robbins (English, Tufts), “'Reader, you may ask me, but in vain,—I will not tell you.' Gossip in William Wells Brown's Travel Narrative." Followed by a reception.