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Tuesday, October 27, 2026

  • The Long History of Amanuenses in Europe, from Antiquity to the Digital Age

    Time
    3:00 - 5:00 pm
    Location
    Main Library Room 346 — 1408 W. Gregory Dr, Urbana, IL 61801

    The techniques for making texts have changed across multiple media and historical contexts since antiquity, but a regular feature of the work of authors and scholars through all those changes is the reliance on helpers or amanuenses. Dr. Ann Blair (Harvard) will discuss the factors that have made them both invisible and occasionally visible, and the kind of work they did.

Thursday, November 12, 2026

  • Decoding the Page: Emblems, Ornaments, and Early Modern Reading

    Time
    3:00 - 5:00 pm
    Location
    Main Library Room 346 — 1408 W. Gregory Dr, Urbana, IL 61801

    This event will highlight the collaborative project involving Emblematica (U of I), a digital library of emblem books, and Compositor (U of Birmingham), a database of printers’ ornaments. Dr. Hazel Wilkinson hypothesizes that “emblem-literacy” caused historical readers to engage with ornamented books in ways previously unaccounted-for in scholarship.