A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography Copyright (c) 2013 University of Pennsylvania All rights reserved. http://repository.upenn.edu/rosenbach Recent documents in A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography en-us Wed, 23 Jan 2013 21:09:12 PST 3600 The Traveller, the Tower and the Worm http://repository.upenn.edu/rosenbach/6 http://repository.upenn.edu/rosenbach/6 Mon, 09 May 2011 18:27:44 PDT The University of Pennsylvania Libraries A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography for 2011:

Monday, March 21, 2011: "The Reader as Traveller": Total time, 01:11:51.
Welcome and Introduction: David McKnight (00:01); Lecture: Alberto Manguel (07:20); Question and Answer: (52:20)

Tuesday, March 22, 2011: "The Reader in the Ivory Tower": Total time, 01:05:09.
Welcome: David McKnight (00:01); Introduction: Derick Dreher, The Rosenbach Museum & Library (01:50); Lecture: Alberto Manguel (05:47); Question and Answer: (48:30)

Thursday, March 24, 2011: "The Reader as Bookworm": Total time, 01:21:14.
Welcome: David McKnight (00:01-04:32); Introduction: Roger Chartier (03:05); Lecture: Alberto Manguel (9:52); Question and Answer: (58:18)

The 2011 Rosenbach Fellow, Argentine-born Canadian writer, translator, and editor Alberto Manguel, now living in France, is the author of novels, including All Men Are Liars (2008); non-fiction, including A History of Reading (1996), The Library at Night (2007), and A Reader on Reading (2010); and studies of works such as the Iliad and the Odyssey. From 1964 to 1968, Manguel was a reader for Jorge Luis Borges in Buenos Aires.

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]]> Alberto Manguel Divine Art / Infernal Machine: Western Views of Printing Surveyed http://repository.upenn.edu/rosenbach/5 http://repository.upenn.edu/rosenbach/5 Mon, 07 Mar 2011 11:53:45 PST The University of Pennsylvania Libraries A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography for 2010:

Monday, March 22, 2010: "First Impressions"
Welcome: David McKnight (00:01-06:00); Introduction: Peter Stallybrass (06:00-13:02); Lecture: Elizabeth L. Eisenstein (13:02-59:57); Question and Answer: (59:57-01:12:33)

Tuesday, March 23, 2010: "Eighteenth-Century Attitudes"
Introduction: David McKnight, Libby Kislak (00:01-07:02); Lecture: Elizabeth L. Eisenstein (07:02-52:57); Question and Answer: (52:57-01:07:31)

Thursday, March 25, 2010: "From Steam Press to Cyberspace"
Welcome: David McKnight (00:01-04:32); Introduction: Roger Chartier (04:32-11:33); Lecture: Elizabeth L. Eisenstein (11:33-59:05); Question and Answer: (59:20-01:09:22)

The 2010 Rosenbach Fellow, Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, is a graduate of Vassar College and Harvard University and is Professor Emerita of History at the University of Michigan. Her classic work The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early Modern Europe (1979) is available in many formats and languages, and her other works include Grub Street Abroad: Aspects of the French Cosmopolitan Press from the Age of Louis XIV to the French Revolution (1992). Professor Eisenstein received the Scholarly Distinction award from the American Historical Association in 2002. An expanded version of these lectures has been published as Divine Art, Infernal Machine: The Reception of Printing in the West from First Impressions to the Sense of an Ending (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011).

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]]> Elizabeth L. Eisenstein The Latin Bible as Codex http://repository.upenn.edu/rosenbach/4 http://repository.upenn.edu/rosenbach/4 Mon, 19 Jul 2010 08:41:26 PDT The University of Pennsylvania Libraries A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography for 2008

"The Latin Bible as Codex"

Paul Saenger, The Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois

April 14, 15, and 17, 2008

5:30PM

Rosenwald Gallery, 6th floor

Van Pelt-Dietrich Library

University of Pennsylvania

3420 Walnut Street

Philadelphia PA 19104-6206

Monday, April 14, 2008: "Christian Versification"

Tuesday, April 15, 2008: "The Birth of Modern Chapters"

Thursday, April 17, 2008: "The Printed Codex"

The distinguished scholar of medieval reading practices Paul Saenger

presents three lectures on the development of the medieval and early

printed Bible. Co-editor of the 1999 The Bible as Book: The First

Printed Editions, Dr. Saenger has also published Space Between Words:

The Origins of Silent Reading (1997) and the Catalogue of the Pre-1500

Western Manuscript Books at the Newberry Library (1989).

]]> Paul Saenger The Evangelical Public Sphere http://repository.upenn.edu/rosenbach/2 http://repository.upenn.edu/rosenbach/2 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:08:43 PDT The University of Pennsylvania Libraries A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography for 2009

"The Evangelical Public Sphere"

Michael Warner
Seymour H. Knox Professor of English and Professor of American Studies, Yale University

March 23, 25, and 26, 2009
5:30PM
Rosenwald Gallery, 6th floor
Van Pelt-Dietrich Library
University of Pennsylvania
3420 Walnut Street (entrance from Locust Walk)
Philadelphia PA 19104-6206

Monday, March 23, 2009:
"Printing and Preaching: What is a Sermon?"

Wednesday, March 25, 2009:
"Between Freethought and Evangelicalism: Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin"

Thursday, March 26, 2009:
"The Evangelical Black Atlantic: Wheatley and Marrant"

Michael Warner is Seymour H. Knox Professor of English and Professor of American Studies at Yale University. His publications include *The Letters of the Republic: Publication and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century America* (1990), the Library of America edition of *American Sermons: The Pilgrims to Martin Luther King, Jr.* (1999), *The Trouble with Normal: Sex, Politics and the Ethics of Queer Life* (1999), *Publics and Counterpublics* (2002), and *The Portable Walt Whitman* (2003).

]]> Michael Warner Pen and Press: Practices of Writing and Publishing in Colonial America http://repository.upenn.edu/rosenbach/1 http://repository.upenn.edu/rosenbach/1 Thu, 08 Mar 2007 13:55:13 PST Lecture 1: "Not in Print, yet Published: The Significance of Scribal Publication" (20 February 2007; total time, 1:23:14): Welcome, Carton Rogers, director of libraries, Univ. of Pennsylvania (0:00); Introduction, Robert St. George, Department of History, Univ. of Pennsylvania (4:48); Lecture (14:36); Question and answer session (1:07:35)

Lecture 2: "Social Authorship: Collaborations and the Making of Printed Books" (22 February 2007; total time, 1:28:38): Welcome, Dan Traister, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Univ. of Pennsylvania (0:00); Introduction, Roger Chartier, Department of History, Univ. of Pennsylvania (4:45); Lecture (10:02); Question and answer session (1:05:20)

Lecture 3: "Authorizing Dissent: Can the Private Be Made Public?" (26 February 2007; total time, 1:18:31): Welcome, Carton Rogers, director of libraries, Univ. of Pennsylvania (0:00); Introduction, James N. Green, Library Company of Philadelphia (3:31); Lecture (8:19); Question and answer session (1:00:46)

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