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TEXTS and PLACES: A Workshop
Sponsored by the Center for Urban and Global Studies
Trinity College
October 9-10, 2010
The invention of writing, and later of printing, turned texts into objects that could travel as far as people. And like people, texts talk about where they're from. As digital media unmoor texts from the material realm, physical texts began to seem more closely tied to physical places. This workshop takes our new situation as an opportunity to explore texts' creative relationships with places: places where texts are made; places that are imagined or brought into being by texts; places that texts connect to and locate in the world.
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Francis Cody, University of Toronto
Echoes of the Street in a Tamil Newspaper
Kelda Jamison, University of Chicago
A Language Community of Non-Readers: Textual Circulation in Kurdish Turkey
Julia Goesser, Trinity College
A Lost Public Sphere: Salons and Women’s Letters in 18th Century Germany
Ellen Gruber Garvey, New Jersey City University
Nineteenth-Century Abolitionists and the Databases they Created
Barbara Sicherman, Trinity College
New Books, New Lives: Jewish Immigrant Women, Reading and, Identity
Bryan Sinche, University of Hartford
Men without a Country: Seafaring and National Belonging in American Literature
Homayra Ziad, Trinity College
Text as Place in the Sufi Pedagogy of Khvājah Mīr Dard
Ellison Findly, Trinity College
The Imagined Geography of Funeral Cloths - The Textile as Text in Northern Laos