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"Literary Honeycombs: Storage and Retrieval of Texts Before Modern Times"

Anthony Grafton

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Event Date: Thursday, February 17, 2005
Location: Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania
Conversations in Theory Series | Organized by Thaddeus Squire, Aaron Levy

Francis Daniel Pastorius, The Bee-Hive, 1696 (Collection of the University of Pennsylvania)

The Annenberg Rare Book & Manuscript Library at the University of Pennsylvania, in collaboration with Slought Foundation, a non-profit organization rethinking contemporary art, present a public conversation with Anthony Grafton on Thursday, February 17, 2005 from 5:00-6:30pm. Please note that this event will take place on the 6th floor of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library (Locust Walk between 34th and 36th Streets), with a modest reception to follow. This event has been organized in partnership with Peregrine Arts, and in conjunction with "The Revolt of the Bees, Wherein the Future of the Paper Hive is declared," a concurrent exhibition at the Rare Book & Manuscript Library that proposes a new culture of memory and archiving in the true spirit of the beehive. More information on the exhibition is available: http://slought.org/content/11258/


Currently the Dodge Professor of History at Princeton, Anthony Grafton studied classics, history and history of science at the University of Chicago and University College London. He joined the Princeton faculty in 1975. His many honors include the Behrman Prize for Achievement in the Humanities at Princeton; a visiting professorship at the École Normale Supèrieure, Paris; and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. He has delivered the J.H. Gray Lectures at Cambridge; the E.A. Lowe Lectures in Paleography and Kindred Subjects at Oxford; the Rothschild Lecture in the History of Science at Harvard, and the Meyer Schapiro Lectures at Columbia University. He served as Warburg Professor in Hamburg, Germany in 1998-99. In Anthony Grafton's wide-ranging body of work, projects which analyze the history and development of scholarly practices figure prominently. Hailed by one critic as "historian extraordinaire," Grafton is the author or editor of eleven books, including a major two-volume study of Renaissance humanist Joseph Scaliger. His intellectual interests range from the history of the classical tradition, particularly during the Renaissance; to the history of science; to the history of books and readers; and to scholarship and scholarly practices such as forgery and the citation of sources.

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[17 February 2005; Accessed 8 August 2008]. <http://slought.org/content/11266/>.



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This program was made possible in part through the generous sponsorship of This program is made possible in part through the generous sponsorship or support of Walter H. & Leonore Annenberg Rare Book & Manuscript Library at the University of Pennsylvania, in partnership with Peregrine Arts.






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