Symposium on the Book Events

Join our visiting speaker Prof. András Kiséry, City College of New York, and UGA Librarian Anne Meyers DeVine for a hands-on activity with sixteenth- and seventeenth-century books and materials from UGA's rare books collection. This event is sponsored by UGA Symposium on the Book, the Willson Center, UGA Department of English, UGA Libraries, and the Head's Fund, Department of English

András Kiséry is Associate Professor of English at The City College of New York (CUNY). He has published on early modern textual and political cultures, including _Hamlet’s Moment: Drama and Political Knowledge in Early Modern England_ (OUP, 2016), and the volume he co-edited with Allison Deutermann, _Formal Matters: Reading the Materials of English Renaissance Literature_ (Manchester UP, 2013). He is now writing a book about media and…

Eileen Wallace is a Senior Lecturer in Printmaking and Book Arts at the University of Georgia and a former resident artist at Penland School of Craft. She has taught workshops at Penland, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, and at other venues across the country. Eileen is a co-director emeritus of the Paper & Book Intensive (PBI) and has been a board member of Hand Papermaking Magazine. She curated the book Masters: Book Arts published by…

Between the presentations of Drs. Nora Galland and Emmanuelle Peraldo and Drs. Mario Erasmo and Miriam Jacobson we are delighted to offer a box lunch to symposium attendees. Lunch is free, but please register well before the event so we know how many to order. Space is limited, so priority will be given to UGA students, faculty, and staff and to symposium speakers. Sponsored by EARTH 16-18, The English and Classics Departments, The Willson…

Dr. Mario Erasmo is Professor and Head of the Classics Department at the University of Georgia. He writes: "As a Cultural Historian, I take an interdisciplinary approach to explore the Legacy of Classical Antiquity. My historical walking guides: Strolling Through Rome: The Definitive Walking Guide to the Eternal City (2015) and Strolling Through Florence: The Definitive Walking Guide to the Renaissance City (2018) take visitors step-by-step…

Dr. Emmanuelle Peraldo, Professor of British Literature and History of 18th-Century Ideas, has worked extensively on Defoe and Swift. She is also interested in travel literature. Her approach is transdisciplinary and she is particularly interested in the fields of ecocriticism, geocriticism and animal studies. Dr Nora Galland, Associate Professor, researches Premodern Critical Race Studies (PCRS) with a focus on early modern English drama, the…

Dr. Camp’s masterclass will focus on a curious Book of Hours held by UGA’s special collections libraries that combines different localized artistic and religious traditions in the later Middle Ages. Together, the talks, plenary, and master class will balance creative practice with scholarly expertise, contemporary and theoretical approaches with historical perspectives, and cross-disciplinary conversations with hands-on learning. Collectively,…

Sujata Iyengar (UGA English), Nora Benedict (UGA Romance Languages), Jennifer Low (FAU English) Drs. Iyengar and Low’s talks will respond to Coley’s work by analyzing further the relationship between Shakespeare and contemporary book arts and artists’ books. Dr. Benedict’s talk brings a new perspective to the medieval and early modern papers by attending to artists’ books from contemporary Latin America. Jennifer A. Low is the…

Join three experts in pre-modern book and textual history -- Drs. Sargan, Mattison, and Jacobson -- as they share scholarship on new ways to read medieval and Renaissance book bindings through Queer and Trans theory, attention to fragments, and historical fantasies about binding. Free and welcome to the public! About Symposium on the Book: This two-day event unites talks from book historians and practicing book artists,…

Masked Purpose: The Aesthetics of Negative Space Suzanne Coley writes: "Can thoughts, emotions, and experiences be preserved and contributed for the collective benefit of humanity? Well known literary tools have been used to pass human experience through the ages. Livre d’Artiste, or book arts, is one of the counterpart art forms that can be used for this purpose. One of my ongoing book art series, Love Sonnets from Shakespeare to Baltimore,…