Previous Events
Workshops and Conferences

Print in the Media Ecology (a two-day conference)
Day 1 - Date: Thursday, March 15, 2012
Time: 9:00am - 5:00pm
Place: Arts Council Room (Arts 160), McGill University
Day 2 - Date: Friday, March 16, 2012
Time: 9:00am - 5:00pm
Place: Arts Council Room (Arts 160), McGill UniversityEvent Details
People in the World of Print (a two-day
conference)
Day 1 - Date: Thursday, March 10, 2011
Time: 9:30am - 5:00pm
Place: Blackader Lauterman Library, McGill University
Day 2 - Date: Friday, March 11, 2011
Time: 9:30pm - 5:30pm
Place: Ferrier Building, Room 456, McGill University
Print, Agency and Interaction (a one-day workshop)
Date: Friday, March 26, 2010
Time: 10:00am - 4:00pm
Place: Arts Council Room (Arts 160), McGill University
Sociability and Print in the Long Eighteenth Century (a one-day workshop)
Date: Friday, November 7, 2008
Time: 10:00am - 4:30pm
Place: Arts Council Room (Arts 160), McGill University
Senses of Print: Interactions of Literary, Visual and Musical Print Cultures
Date: Friday, November 9, 2007
Time: 10:00am - 4:30pm
Place: Arts Council Room (Arts 160), McGill University
Cultural Practices of Intermediality, 1700-1830
Date: Friday, November 3, 2006
Time: 9:30am - 4:30pm
Place: Arts Council Room (Arts 160), McGill University
Public Lectures

Revolutionary Uses of Print: Publicity and Political Legitimacy during the French Terror (1793-1794)
by Carla Hesse (UC Berkeley)
Date: Friday, September 16, 2011
Time: 5:30pm
Place: Bronfman Building, Room 151, McGill University

Bookwork: Medium to Concept to Object to Art
by Garrett Stewart (University of Iowa)
Date:Thursday, September 23, 2010
Time: 5:30pm
Place: McLennan Library, Rare Books and Special Collections, McGill University
Seminars

Reading and Writing: How Young French Women Interacted with Print in the Eighteenth Century
by Dena Goodman (University of Michigan)
Date: Friday, November 20, 2009
Time: 9:30am - 12:30pm
Place: Arts Council Room (Arts 160), McGill University

British Romanticism and the Survival of Manuscript Culture
by Michelle Levy (Simon Fraser)
Date: Friday, April 3, 2009
Time: 2:00 - 4:00pm
Place: McLennan Library, Rare Books and Special Collections, McGill University

The Science of Sciences: Replication and Reproduction in Lavater's Physiognomics
by John Lyon (University of Pittsburgh)
Date: Thursday, March 27, 2008
Time: 2:30 - 4:30pm
Place: Osler Library, McGill University
Exhibitions

Exhibition: Cultural Practices of Intermediality
Date: March 2012
Place: McGill University, Rare Books and Special Collections, McLennan Library Building, 4th Floor

People in the World of Print
Date: March 2011
Place: Blackader-Lauterman Library, McGill University

Interactions of Script and Print in the Nineteenth Century
Date: April 2009
Place: McLennan Library, Rare Books and Special Collections, McGill University
Reading the Body: Johann Caspar Lavater and the Tradition of Physiognomy
Date: Thursday, March 27 - Friday, May 30, 2008
Place: Osler Library, McGill University
Visiting Speakers (Co-Sponsored)
Invisible Hands in the Eighteenth Century: Complexity, Causality, and the Roots of Modern Order
by Dror Wahrman (Indiana University)
hosted in conjunction with the McGill University History Department
Date: Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Time: 3:30pm
Place: Redpath Museum, McGill University

The Afterlife of Paragraphs: Transatlantic Journalism Before the Telegraph
by Will Slauter (Columbia University)
hosted in conjunction with the French Atlantic History Group
Date: Friday, October 19, 2007
Time: 3:00 - 5:00pm
Place: Ferrier Building, Room 230, McGill University
