“The Thing Is” Discussion (Yale Program in the History of the Book)

The 2018-2019 program is organized around a series of public panel discussions on the theme of ‘the thing is,’ an exploration of the idea of the text as material object.  The first panel will feature Bill Brown (Karla Scherer Distinguished Service Professor in American Culture, University of Chicago), Marta Figlerowicz (Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and English, Yale), and John Durham Peters (María Rosa Menocal Professor of English and of Film & Media Studies, Yale) in a discussion led by Michael Warner (Seymour H. Knox Professor of English, Professor of American Studies, Yale). A reception will follow the event.