Symposium on the Book event: Masterclass with Cynthia Camp

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, the talks will question periodization, bringing to book history the same kind of boundary-crossing methodology that has informed literary study.

Free and welcome to the public!

ABOUT SYMPOSIUM ON THE BOOK:

This two-day event unites talks from book historians and practicing book artists, featuring a plenary address by artist Suzanne Coley and panel featuring special guest Jennifer Low, an early modern scholar and apprentice book artist. The symposium will demonstrate the diversity and range of contemporary book arts and book history. Coley’s work uses second-hand African, American, and African American textiles to explore gender, race, and memory through the creation of exquisitely sewn, embroidered, and printed books.

Sponsors: The University of Georgia Willson Center, Departments of English and Romance languages, the Institute for African-American Studies, the Lamar-Dodd School of Art, the Institute for Women’s Studies, UGA Libraries, Bibliographic Society of America and the Office of Institutional Diversity.