Event

Roger Chartier, author of Won in Translation. Textual Mobility in Early Modern Europe (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022), in conversation with John Pollack, translator of Won in Translation.
Moderator: Antonio Feros (UPenn)

5:00pm | College Hall 209. Reception to follow

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Roger Chartier is Annenberg Visiting Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. His work in Early Modern European History was rooted in the tradition of the "Annales School" and mainly dedicated to the history of education, the history of the book and the history of reading. Recently, he has focused on the relationship between written culture as a whole and literature (particularly theatrical plays) for France, England and Spain. His work in this specific field (based on the criss-crossing between literary criticism, bibliography, and sociocultural history) is not disconnected from broader historiographical and methodological interests which deal with the relation between history and other disciplines: philosophy, sociology, anthropology.

John H. Pollack is Curator, Research Services, in the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries. He has worked in this department since 1995. He is also responsible for the Furness Shakespeare Library, which is part of the Kislak Center. John Pollack also holds a PhD in English from Penn and a BA from Washington University in St. Louis. He specializes in Early American literature and history, and early modern book history. His research has focused on topics including Native American languages; colonial writings from New France; and Benjamin Franklin and colonial education.

Antonio Feros (moderator) is Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History and Chair of the History Department. Feros writes about politics, culture and ethnic relations in the early modern Spanish empire, and Spanish intellectual and modern history. He has published several works on ideas and images of kingship in seventeenth-century Spanish drama and painting; political and court cultures in early modern Europe.  His last book, Speaking of Spain: The Evolution of Race and Nation in the Hispanic World (2017) analyzes the long-term debate and struggles over race and nation in Spain and the Spanish world from the late 15th century to the early 19th century. He is currently developing a project on the history of Spain under Dictator General Franco, provisionally entitled Post-war and reconstruction in Modern Spain, 1939-1969.