Opening event for History of the Book

HISTORY OF THE BOOK

SPEAKERS: Arthur Bahr, Molly Taylor-Poleskey, Joseph Rezek, Sarah Robbins

Featuring four flashtalks:

“Between Close and Distant Reading” - Arthur Bahr (Literature, MIT)

“Reading the Raum: Spatial History in Early Modern German Itinerary Books” - Molly Taylor-Poleskey (Map Room, Harvard)

“The Racialization of Print” - Joseph Rezek (English, Boston University)

“'Reader, you may ask me, but in vain,—I will not tell you.' Gossip in William Wells Brown's Travel Narrative."  - Sarah Robbins (English, Tufts)

Followed by a reception.