Robert C. Darnton (Princeton University)
“"From the History of the Book to the History of Communication: Policing Poetry in Paris, 1749”
Thursday, 18 September, 1997
Meredith McGill (Rutgers)
"Authorship and International Copyright: Notes on the Circulation of American Notes for General Circulation"
20 November, 1997
Peter Stallybras (University of Pennsylvania)
"Hands and Books: The Materiality of Reading and Writing"
Thursday, April 16, 1998
1997-1998 Seminar Organizers:
Larry Scanlon, Associate Professor of English, English Department, Murray Hall, College Avenue Campus, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903; (732) 932-8082; fax (732) 932-1150; e-mail to lscanlon at rci.rutgers.edu.
Peter Graham, University Libraries Administration, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, 169 College Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 09801-1163; (732) 445-5908; fax (732) 445-5888;
Meredith McGill, Assistant Professor of English, English Department, Murray Hall, College Avenue Campus, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903; (732) 932-9241 e-mail to mlmcgill at rci.rutgers.edu.
The Seminar was initiated in 1997 with the following goal:
"We expect to have presentations both by visitors and Rutgers people, on both general topics and work in progress. We hope to make the Seminar as cross-disciplinary as possible and useful, and we project about three meetings each semester."
More about the inaugural year at: http://web.syr.edu/~psgraham/pgsite/pglibwork/pgrutgers/rul/RUHistBookSem.html
