Save the Date – next MTRF seminar on 28 May 2025!

Seminar IX of the Material Text Research Forum will be held on Wednesday 28 May 2025, at 16.00-18.00 EEST, on Zoom.

This time, we will have a workshop led by Peter Grund (University of Yale) on “Space, spacing, pace, and the fictional representation of speech”, focusing on printed literary texts from the 16th century up to now.

More information to come soon!

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Fragments and Reconstruction: The VIII Seminar of the Material Text Research Forum!

The next Material Text Seminar takes place via Zoom on Wednesday 15 May 2024, 16.00–18.00 EEST (UTC+3).

Programme

  • 16.15 Opening words

  • 16.20 Niamh Pattwell (University College Dublin): From waste to artefact: a study of the Medieval Manuscript fragments in the book bindings in Marsh’s Library, Dublin
  • 16.50 Sanna Supponen (University of Helsinki): Paratexts as tools for reconstructing manusripts that survive in fragments

  • 17.20 Mia Korpiola (University of Turku): The VirTuAr Reconstruction Project: The Older Archive of the Turku Court of Appeal, Virtually

  • 17.50 Closing words

The seminar is open for everyone. The Zoom link will be sent to participants before the seminar. To get the link, please register in advance at https://konsta.utu.fi/Default.aspx?tabid=88&tap=18576. The registration closes on Sunday, 12 May.

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Material Text Seminar VIII

Save the date!

The Eighth Material Text Seminar will be held (via Zoom) on Wednesday 15 May 2024, 4-6 pm EEST.

More information to follow!

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