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Here you find our archive of book history seminars, conference and courses over the years that Harvard hosted. For courses, we have listed also book history courses at MIT. Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminars on the History of the Book Past...

JAPNLIT 260 Early Modern Japanese Literature and Culture

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David Atherton 1/22/2024 to 4/24/2024 W, 12:45pm - 2:45pm Description: This course explores the literature of the Edo period, a time that saw the emergence of a dynamic market for popular literature, the rise of new dramatic forms such as kabuki and...

GENED 1034 Texts in Transition

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Ann Blair and Leah Whittington 9/5/2023 to 12/5/2023 M, W, 3:00pm - 4:15pm What makes some texts long-lived while others are ephemeral, today and in the past? We live in a moment of “crisis” around regimes of preservation and loss. As our communication...

HIST 1318 History of the Book and of Reading

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Ann Blair M W F 10-10.59 am Sever 202 An introduction to the cultural history of the book and its functions as both material object and text. Major themes include the techniques of book production, authorship, popular and learned readership, libraries and...

Harvard University | History of the Book at Harvard

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NEW Podcast: Boss Like Belle (By Anne-Marie Eze with Rachael Lowell Ellison) Belle da Costa Greene was librarian, medievalist and first director of the Morgan Library and Museum. A Black woman passing as white, she became a trailblazer at J. P. Morgan's...

GENED 1034: Texts in Transition

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Faculty: Ann Blair Location: Harvard Hall 202 Time: 3-4:15PM Mondays and Thursdays *Limited to Undergraduate Students* We live in a moment of rapid changes in the ways we communicate. As our writing becomes ever more digital—and paradoxically both more...

JAPNLIT 260 Early Modern Japanese Literature and Culture

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David Atherton W 1:00pm - 3:59pm Location:TBA This course explores the literature of the Edo period, a time that saw the emergence of a dynamic market for popular literature, the rise of new dramatic forms such as kabuki and puppet theater, the heyday of...

“When the sheets are folded, they are gathered”: Female Labor in American Bookbinderies in the 19th Century by Todd Pattison

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American binderies underwent dynamic changes in the nineteenth century, evolving from small shops employing a handful of workers to large factories using assembly-line techniques. It has long been asserted that the introduction of machines led to the...

FRSEMR 60T: Harvard Poets

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M 2:00 – 3:59 Elisa New The first 1/3 of course will include close readings, video tours and on-foot excursions around 17th and 18th 19th century Harvard Square as we read Ann Bradstreet, Edward Taylor, Michael Wigglesworth, Phillis Wheatley, Henry...

HIST E-1151 History of the Book and of Reading (Harvard Extension School)

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Ann Blair Online The advent of digital communications has prompted questions about how change in the technology of communication affects authors, readership, intellectual property and the business of publishing. By studying the long history of written...

KORLIT 213: The Book in Korea Before the 20th Century

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Si Nae Park F 10-11:59am This course is for graduate students and advanced undergraduate students interested in the book from pre-20th-century Korea. With a focus on the “vernacular book” (i.e., books within which the Korean language is inscribed and...

German 207B-Digital Medieval Mary Magdalene

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F 1pm-3:59pm Boylston 103 (FAS) Racha Kirakosian Description The goal of this full year's course is two-fold: in terms of research results, it will create an interactive on-line edition of a medieval Mary Magdalene legend transmitted in the Lower Rhine...