Please join us for a conference in celebration of the career of Peter Stallybrass, Annenberg Professor in the Humanities, Professor of English, and Director of the Workshop in the History of Material Texts at the University of Pennsylvania. We will gather to honor Peter's immense contributions to scholarship and to all of our intellectual lives by exchanging new ideas, fostering new collaborations, and, in keeping with Peter's style, eating and drinking together.
Organized by the English Department at the University of Pennsylvania and the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books, and Manuscripts. Generously co-sponsored by the Penn School of Arts and Sciences, Penn Office of the Provost, the Annenberg School for Communication, Classical Studies, Germanic Languages and Literatures, History, History of Art, Jewish Studies, the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, Mary H. and Lawrence W. Pollack, the University of Pennsylvania Press, and the Wolf Humanities Center. Special thanks to David Comberg and Faith Padgett of The Common Press.
Thursday, April 19, 2018
5:00pm Keynote Address
Welcome: William Noel
Introduction: Roger Chartier
Margreta de Grazia, The Rise and Fall of Shakespeare's Chronology
6:30pm Reception
Friday, April, 20, 2018
9:00am Coffee
9:30-10:45am Panel 1 – Manuscript and Print
- Zachary Lesser and John Pollack, Welcome
- Simran Thadani, Readings of Writing that's Meant for Printing: or, Book History the Stallybrassian Way
- Christopher A. Hunter, 'Correspondence and some Valuable Manuscripts': Printing an Eighteenth-Century Archive
- Robbie Glen, How to Read a Letter
- Clare Costley King'oo, John Crane's Obedience; or, Tax Avoidance with Tyndale
- Respondent: Heather Wolfe
10:45-11:15 am Break
11:15am-12:30pm Panel 2 – Shakespeare and Early Modern Theater
Jessica Rosenberg, By the Book
William Fisher, 'Making most solemne love to a petticote': Clothing Fetishism and the Early Modern Theater
Jeffrey Masten, The Museum of Gavestoneana
Julie Crawford, The Place of the Cousin in As You Like It
Respondent: Michael Witmore
12:30-2:00pm Lunch
2:00-3:15pm Panel 3 – Reading, Commonplacing, Noting
Brooke Palmieri and John Pollack, 'Over & Over & Over, but not overly': On the excesses of note-taking in Pastorius's Beehive
James Kearney, Alabaster's Wager: Reading, Before and After
James N. Green, Franklin's Annotated Draft of the 1776 Pennsylvania Declaration of Rights
Respondent: Ann Blair
3:15-3:30pm Break
3:30-4:45pm Panel 4 – Sheets, Pamphlets, Books
- Dianne Mitchell, Between the Sheet
- Alan B. Farmer, Big Jobs: Printers and the Publication of Large Books
- Alan Niles, Scarcity, Survival, Simulation: Inventing the American Elegy
- Lynne Farrington, Occupying a Sacred Place in the Hearts of the People: Selling the Family Bible in Nineteenth-Century America
- Respondent: Michael F. Suarez, S.J.
4:45-5:00pm Break
5:00-6:00pm Round Table / concluding thoughts:
Roger Chartier, David Scott Kastan, Zachary Lesser, Ann Rosalind Jones, Nancy J. Vickers, Jerome E. Singerman, Michèle Barrett
Saturday, April, 21, 2018
A Celebration of Peter Stallybrass, undergraduate teacher and mentor
10:15am-12:30pm: Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, Kislak Center
Keynote Address
Brooke Palmieri, Thinking and Against Thinking with Peter Stallybrass
Undergraduate exhibits and talks, featuring the work of the Penn Manuscript Collective
12:30pm-2:30pm: The Common Press, Anne & Jerome Fisher Fine Arts Library
Demonstrations and hands-on printing