For 2023, the Year’s Theme for the Research Group is “Materials & Access”<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The RGME continues with its pair of Symposia for 2023, continuing its expanded pattern of paired day-long virtual Spring and Autumn Symposia<\/strong> launched in 2022<\/a>.<\/p>\n “Centered”. Photograph \u24b8 2014 Mildred Budny.<\/p><\/div>\n This year, the Spring and Autumn Symposia will take place by Zoom respectively on:<\/p>\n Each Symposium in the pair explores a wide range of spheres, subjects, case-studies, and issues connected with the duality of Materials of many kinds and varieties of Access to them.<\/p>\n Part 1, “From the Ground Up”<\/strong>, explored the terrain for Materials and Access in a wide variety of fields.<\/p>\n Part 2, “Between Earth and Sky”<\/strong>, examines the conditions and opportunities for Materials and Access in the world as we might know it, both in the Here and Now and beyond.<\/p>\n Pre-Symposium:\u00a0 “Intrepid Borders” (24 March 2023)<\/strong><\/p>\n Spring Symposium:\u00a0 “From the Ground Up” (25 March 2023)<\/strong><\/p>\n Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, MS. W.148, folio 33v, bottom right. Image via Creative Commons.<\/p><\/div>\n The Spring Symposium acquired a companion event, in the form of a half-day virtual Pre-Symposium with Lightning Talks selected from responses to a Call for Proposals and organized by Katharine C. Chandler, Jennifer Larson, and Jessica L. Savage.<\/p>\n Information about these companion events, which took place on Friday afternoon 24 March and all day Saturday 25 March 2023:<\/p>\n The blooms of Snowdrops emerging “From the Ground Up”. Photograph \u24b8 Mildred Budny.<\/p><\/div>\n The 2023 Spring Pre-Symposium\/Symposium Booklet<\/strong> records the Program for both events and the Abstracts for their Presentations, with Illustrations.\u00a0 The digital version can be downloaded freely here in two formats, for your printing facilities and preferences.<\/p>\n Ravenna, Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, Ceiling Mosaic. Photo: Petar Milo\u0161evi\u0107 \/ CC BY-SA, Wikipedia.<\/p><\/div>\n Grounded in the experiences and expertise of our fields of study, our 2023 Autumn Symposium might take notice of view-points across time and place which can inform and enlighten our explorations of materials, memory aids, and forms of understanding transmitted from the past.<\/p>\n Note on the Image<\/em><\/p>\n With an eye toward the heavens, a visitor looking upward in the late-antique Mausoleum of Galla Placidia<\/a>, created for an empress in Ravenna, Italy, can glimpse the mosaic ceiling patterned with star-studded and celestial skies of deep blue.<\/p>\n Photograph by Petar Milo\u0161evi\u0107, via CC BY-SA License via Wikipedia.<\/p>\n Participants for the 2023 Autumn Symposium, variously as Presenters, Respondents, Presiders, Moderators, and Advisers, include (in alphabetical order):<\/p>\n 2020 Symposium Poster 1<\/p><\/div>\n Among them are Speakers who now reprise or offer a variant on the papers which they planned for the RGME 2020 Spring Symposium<\/strong> in person at Princeton University.\u00a0 Their illustrated Abstracts for that cancelled event describe the intentions then.\u00a0 See 2020 Spring Symposium (Save the Date)<\/a> and the published Symposium Booklet, available as a pdf laid out<\/p>\n A similar Symposium Booklet is planned for the 2023 Autumn Symposium.<\/p>\n For the Preliminary Program for the 2023 Autumn Symposium, see below.\u00a0 As it takes fuller shape, its details will appear here.\u00a0 For an e<\/em>-version of the companion Symposium Booklet, see below.<\/p>\n Cambridge, Trinity College, MS O.3.7, fol. 1r. Frontispiece image of Philosophy Personnified for Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae, with commentary. Image via CC 4.0 International License, via https:\/\/mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk\/Manuscript\/O.3.7<\/p><\/div>\n As a beacon for the event, we reflect on the majestic standing figure of Lady Philosophy appearing as a frontispiece in a Late Anglo-Saxon manuscript.\u00a0 Standing upright with a steady frontal gaze, wrapped in flowing garments, she rests her feet upon hilly ground, while she holds up to the sides an elongated book in one hand and a foliate scepter in the other.\u00a0 This is a favorite book and image.<\/p>\n (For Registration<\/strong>, see below.)<\/p>\n Speakers, Respondents, and Presiders for the event include the Director and Associates of the RGME as well as others.<\/p>\n Recording<\/b>. We will record the event for our records, also with the aim of making the recording available for viewing afterward, subject to processing and permission.<\/p>\n Please watch this space for updates.<\/p>\n Presider: Jennifer Larson<\/strong> (Classics Department, Kent State University)<\/p>\n London, British Library, Cotton MS Julius A. VI, fol. 4v, detail.<\/p><\/div>\n Presider: Hannah Goeselt<\/strong> (Library, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston)<\/p>\n Presider: Jessica L. Savage<\/strong> (Art History Specialist, Index of Medieval Art, Princeton University) Presider: David Porreca<\/strong><\/p>\n 2023 Autumn Symposium Booklet Cover.<\/p><\/div>\n As the Symposium approaches, the illustrated Symposium Booklet becomes ready.<\/p>\n Our practice is to make the illustrated Symposium Booklet available close to the time of the event, for distribution in printed and digital formats.\u00a0 The e<\/em>-version (in pdf format) will be downloadable in two formats:<\/p>\n To register for the event, visit the RGME Eventbrite Collection.<\/p>\n Registration is required; there is no charge for admission.\u00a0 We welcome donations.<\/p>\n Donations for our mission and activities may be tax-deductible.\u00a0 Registering for the event offers an option for you to make a donation easily and conveniently.\u00a0 See also<\/p>\n We thank you for your interest and support.<\/p>\n Watch this space for more information as it unfolds.<\/p>\n Questions?\u00a0 Ask director@manuscriptevidence.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n Other events are planned for the Year.\u00a0 See<\/p>\n The next episode for this online series is Episode 14<\/strong> on Sunday 19 November 2023 Announcements of our events planned for 2024 are coming soon.\u00a0 Some will be announced for the 2023 Autumn Symposium.\u00a0 They include:<\/p>\n![\""Centered".](\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/P6200115-Centered-Photography-Mildred-Budny-Copyright-2014-300x225.jpg\")
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\n“Between Earth and Sky”<\/h2>\nSaturday 21 October 2023 by Zoom<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Participants<\/h3>\n
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A ‘Poster Person’<\/h3>\n
Preliminary Program<\/h2>\n
Schedule and List of Presentations
\n(the order may vary)<\/h2>\nFull Day:\u00a0 9:30 am to 5:00 pm EDT (GMT-4) with breaks<\/h3>\n
Morning<\/h2>\n
Session 1. “Sources, Resources, and Encounters”
\n9:30\u201311:15 am EDT (GMT-4)<\/h3>\n\n
\n“Opening Remarks”<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
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\nJustin Hastings <\/strong>(Assistant Teaching Professor, Department of English, Loyola University Maryland)
\n\u201cCrowning a King, Interpreting Society, and Scaring the Kids:
\nFirst-Year Composition Students Meet the Archives and Special Collections\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
\n“Preview of 2024 RGME Spring Symposium at Vassar College”<\/em>
\n\u2014 April 2024 (hybrid):
\n“Between Past and Future:<\/em>
\nBuilding Bridges between Special Collections and Teaching for the Liberal Arts”<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/BL-Cot-Jul-A-VI-calendar-etc-fol-4v-diners-4-Eventbrite-Symp-vdc_100056427828-300x150.jpg\")
Lunch Break. 11:15 am \u2013 12:30 pm EDT (GMT-4)<\/h3>\n
Afternoon<\/h2>\n
Session 2. “By Land and By Sea”
\n12:30-2:00 pm EDT (GMT-4)<\/h3>\n\n
\n\u201cAffective Landscape Imagery in the Old English Psalms and the Old English Elegies<\/u><\/em>\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
\n“Letters to Ambrogio Malipiero, a Venetian Vice Consul in Syria during the 1480s\u200b<\/span><\/i><\/em>“<\/i><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
\n“An Introduction to the Edgar William Pyke Coin Collection<\/a> at the University of Waterloo”<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
\n“Response:\u00a0 Collecting and Studying Coins as Records of History”<\/em> [if David’s variable work timetable permits him to attend]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nBreak. 2:00\u20132:30 pm EDT<\/h3>\n
Session 3. “Having a Look, Looking Anew, and Looking Forward”
\n2:30\u20134:00 pm EDT<\/h3>\n
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\n\u201cDo Manuscript Descriptions Influence Scholarship?
\nThe Case of Thirteenth-Century Latin Bibles\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
\n“Ars moriendi<\/i> Blockbooks: What Can Watermarks in Paper Tell Us?”<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
\n\u201cA Preview of a new Open Access Resource:\u00a0 Searching the BASIRA Project Database<\/a>\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nBreak. 4:00\u20134:30 pm EDT<\/h3>\n
Session 4. “Accessing Materials \/ Bridging Time and Place”
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\n<\/strong>\u201cA Few Reflections on Materials and Their Access:
\nAccessibility Concerns and Scholarship\u201d<\/em>
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\nConcluding Remarks:
\n“From ‘Materials and Access’ in 2023 to ‘Bridges’ in 2024:
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The Illustrated Symposium Booklet<\/h3>\n
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Registration for the 2023 Autumn Symposium<\/h2>\n
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\nGeneral Admission<\/strong>
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More Information and Updates<\/h2>\n
2023 RGME Events<\/h2>\n
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\n2:00-2:30 pm EST (GMT-5) by Zoom.\u00a0 See<\/p>\n\n
2024 RGME Events for an Anniversary Year<\/h2>\n
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\n“Between Past and Future:
\nBuilding Bridges between Special Collections and Teaching for the Liberal Arts”.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nSuggestion Box<\/h2>\n
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