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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#1F497D">Who remembers the (in)famous volvelles discussion in the Thesaurus Editorial Group, way back in the early aughts? (The question was whether to add the term to an RBMS
thesaurus, which oddly—in my estimation then and now—was a source of debate. It was added to Genre Terms in January 2004.)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#1F497D">Forwarding this for the sake of those interested in volvelles or are nostalgic for old lexicographical debates. And though not specific to cataloging or even librarianship,
is part of an excellent series offered by Penn on Monday afternoons during term.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#5E327C">Deborah J. Leslie, MA, MLS | Senior Cataloger | Folger Shakespeare Library | 201 East Capitol St., SE, Washington, DC 20003 |
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<a href="http://www.folger.edu"><span style="color:#0563C1">www.folger.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D">
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#5E327C">| Opinions her own</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Aylin Malcolm<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, February 8, 2022 13:32<br>
<b>To:</b> english-hist-book@groups.english.upenn.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [hist-book] Material Texts: Aylin Malcolm, February 14, 5:15 PM<o:p></o:p></p>
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Please join us for the next meeting of the Workshop in the History of Material Texts, which will take place on February 14th at 5:15 PM Eastern Time. We will be returning to the Class of 1978 Pavilion, on the sixth floor <span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">of
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;background:white">This week, Aylin Malcolm (Penn) will give a talk entitled "Revolutionary Science: Movable Books and the Medieval Universe." Aylin writes:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Movable parts such as tabs, wheels, and flaps were common components of premodern scientific texts. These features could serve as participatory pedagogical tools, calculating devices, or inexpensive alternatives to instruments such as
the astrolabe. In this talk, I review a range of movable devices from the later Middle Ages, including their applications in cosmography, medicine, and the computation of the date of Easter. Focusing on astronomical volvelles, I then develop an ecological
reading of these rotating discs, which encouraged readers to relate to the world around them in several complementary ways. Movable books could facilitate readers’ efforts to conceptualize their positions in the universe, an important aspect of premodern knowledge
practices. Yet volvelles also call attention to the materiality of the texts in which they appear, and their susceptibility to damage visually suggests the impact of human actions. Often compared to modern apps, these devices therefore offer lessons for engaging
with today’s media landscapes and their unseen material infrastructures.</i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;background:white">Aylin Malcolm is a Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of Pennsylvania and the 2021–22 Brizdle-Schoenberg Fellow in the History of Material Texts. Aylin's research interests include poetry
and zoology in medieval England, the history of ecological crisis, and premodern gender studies. Aylin held a graduate fellowship at the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies in 2019, during which they worked on medieval astronomical diagrams and their
afterlives in digital spaces.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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Mar. 14, 15, 17: Peter D. McDonald (Oxford), <a href="https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/AkwyCo2nxmiwqDlcONnlJ?domain=library.upenn.edu" target="_blank">Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography</a>: "The Secret Life of Books"<br>
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Mar. 21: Sarah Werner: "Practicing Feminist Bibliography"<o:p></o:p></p>
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Zachary Lesser<br>
Edward W. Kane Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania<br>
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Jerry Singerman<br>
Senior Humanities Editor emeritus, University of Pennsylvania Press<o:p></o:p></p>
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John Pollack<br>
Curator, Research Services, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts<o:p></o:p></p>
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Aylin Malcolm<br>
Brizdle-Schoenberg Fellow in the History of Material Texts<o:p></o:p></p>
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