Event
Understanding Japanese Material Texts: Metadata and Digital Humanities Impacts
Tress Collection Workshop
Paula Curtis, UCLA; Amaury A. García Rodríguez, Collegio de Mexico; Kyoko Kinoshita, Tama Art University; Ann Sherif, Oberlin College; Julie Nelson Davis, University of Pennsylvania; Linda H. Chance, University of Pennsylvania
From the organizers:
"Please join us for a series of presentations on the history and materiality of the Japanese book by premier specialists in the field. Learn the origins of the Tress Collection at the Penn Libraries and Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts from Julie Nelson Davis, University of Pennsylvania, and hear about selected rare materials. Topics include medieval materials and documents, enpon erotica, cultural continuity in printed books from the Edo to Meiji periods, teaching, cataloging, and digitizing images in the Ainsworth Collection at Oberlin, and the brush in print."
Workshop is open to public
Please note that because final exams are underway during this period, you will only be able to enter the library by prior arrangement. Please email lchance@sas.upenn.edu by 3 P.M. May 7 to have your name put on a list for entry.)
Sponsored by the University Research Foundation, Office of the Vice Provost for Research, University of Pennsylvania, and the Department of the History of Art