How did people in Europe between 1700 and 1900 use printed matter to mediate and structure their social and interpersonal interactions? On one hand, silently reading a printed book is usually understood as a solitary activity, even an alienating one. On the other, engaging with printed matter...
All Interacting with Print Events
Thursday, March 21, 2013 - 09:30 to Friday, March 22, 2013 - 17:00
Tuesday, January 15, 2013 - 14:00 to 17:30
On Tuesday, January 15, the Interacting with Print Research Group will host its inaugural Graduate Research Symposium. The event runs from 2:00 to 5:30 pm, in the Ferrier Building (McGill Campus), Room 470
Thursday, November 15, 2012 - 09:00 to Friday, November 16, 2012 - 17:30
For the next two days, 22 researchers from 3 different countries will assemble at McGill University to continue the work of collaboratively writing a monograph on the history of print. Over the course of the past year, contributors have been writing "seeds" and "grafts" using a wiki platform to...
Friday, September 21, 2012 - 17:00
A public lecture by Andrew Stauffer, Department of English, University of Virginia, Director of the NINES Project
This lecture draws on the wealth of marginalia – names, dates, marks, signatures, comments, and drawings – which nineteenth century readers marked in their books. Prof...
Thursday, March 15, 2012 - 09:30 to Friday, March 16, 2012 - 17:00
Existing studies in Book History and Print Culture have tended to isolate print from other media. But we know that cultural consumers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries ranged omnivorously among several media: printed texts and printed images circulated alongside manuscript materials,...
Thursday, March 1, 2012 - 09:00 to Friday, March 30, 2012 - 17:00
Cultural Practices of Intermediality examines how print interacted with the broader media ecology between 1700 and 1900. Focusing on the area of art and the stage, the exhibition includes books, printed images, plays, librettos, musical scores, playbills, theatre programmes, caricature, printed...
Revolutionary Uses of Print: Publicity and Political Legitimacy during the French Terror (1793-1794)
Friday, September 16, 2011 - 17:30
A Public Lecture by Carla Hesse, Peder Sather Chair in the Department of History at UC Berkeley
The Interacting with Print research group is hosting a public lecture by Carla Hesse on Friday, September 16, 2011. Carla Hesse, Peder Sather chair in the Department of History at UC Berkeley,...
Thursday, March 10, 2011 - 09:30 to Friday, March 11, 2011 - 17:30
The Interacting with Print research group brings together scholars from several disciplines (including English, German, History, Modern Languages and Art History) who share interests in European print culture between 1700 and 1900. Over the last five years, we have developed a new account of...
Tuesday, March 1, 2011 - 09:00 to Thursday, March 31, 2011 - 17:00
People in the World of Print examines how people interacted with print between 1700 and 1900. An explosion of print culture characterized these centuries: books, newspapers, magazines, evangelical tracts, broadsides, and printed images, along with other printed items, proliferated in...
Thursday, September 23, 2010 - 17:30
A Public Lecture by Garrett Stewart (University of Iowa)
