An online event to celebrate the recent publication of The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book. Contributors discuss their experience of planning and writing the volume. How important is it to define what
Professor Cynthia Brokaw, Yip Fellow at Magdalene and 2021 Panizzi Lecturer at the British Library will be speaking informally about her work on Chinese book culture in the early modern
Dr Peter Taverner, Magdalene College, Cambridge, gives an illustrated lecture on "The Materialities of Texts: East, and West", followed by a workshop comparing physical forms of bamboo and paper books.
New horizons in bibliography: the Andean khipu: Dr Medrano studies khipus, knotted-string devices that fulfilled the functions of writing in the prehispanic Andes, whose narrative properties remain little known. He
Simon Keable-Elliott will speak on Robert Keable, from Magdalene scholar to notorious novelist. When Robert Keable left Cambridge, there were high expectations that he would have a dazzling career in
Join us for a presentation by Dr Michelle Taylor, Armstrong T.S. Eliot Fellow at Magdalene College. "Clique Lit: Coterie Circulation in Modernism’s Print Ecologies?"
Join us for a presentation by Prof Liudmyla Sharipova, Assistant Professor in History at the University of Nottingham. "The Nun who Wanted More: The meaning of personal monastic property in
In association with the Magdalene Poetry Society. Benson Hall, Magdalene College, 6 pm, with refreshments. All warmly welcome.