Fall 2018/Spring 2019

FALL 2018

Thurs Sept 13 2018, 5:30pm-7:30pm
Opening event: David Alworth (English, Harvard), David Atherton (EALC, Harvard), Jeffrey Ravel (History, MIT), Dana Sajdi (Hisotry, Boston College and Radcliffe Institute). Barker 133

Tuesday Oct 23, 6pm
Christina Lupton (University of Warwick) and Stuart Sherman (Fordham University), "Time, Media, the Eighteenth-Century Novel.” Barker 133. Co-sponsored by the Novel Theory seminar and the Eighteenth-Century Studies seminar of Mahindra Humanities Center and the Long 18th Century Graduate Colloquium.

Monday Nov 12, 5pm
Meredith McGill (Rutgers),
"Beyond the Anthology: Poetry and Popular Print in the Antebellum US.” Barker 133.

 

SPRING 2019

Thurs Feb 21 6pm
Mary Carpenter (Professor Emerita, Dept of English, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario), “From Treasures to Trash, or, the Real History of ‘Family Bibles.’” Co-sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminars on Book History and Victorian Studies. Barker 133.

Wed March 13, 5:15pm
Will Slauter (Université de Paris-Diderot and Institut Universitaire de France), “News, Newspapers, and the Limits of Copyright in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries” CGIS S250, 1730 Cambridge St.

THURSDAY MAY 2 HARVARD-YALE BOOK HISTORY