#;()@?":—*! (A Roundtable)
Sponsoring Organization(s)
BABEL Working Group
Organizer Name
Eileen A. Joy
Organizer Affiliation
BABEL Working Group
Presider Name
Richard H. Godden
Presider Affiliation
Tulane Univ.
Paper Title 1
Seeing Spaces
Presenter 1 Name
Chris Piuma
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Univ. of Toronto
Paper Title 2
The Divorce of Punctuation and Diacritics
Presenter 2 Name
Meg Worley
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Colgate Univ.
Paper Title 3
, (A Breath)
Presenter 3 Name
Joshua R. Eyler
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Rice Univ.
Paper Title 4
D’oh: A Brief History of Misusing the Apostrophe and Why Its So Annoying
Presenter 4 Name
David Hadbawnik
Presenter 4 Affiliation
Univ. at Buffalo
Paper Title 5
‽: Interrobanging Chaucer
Presenter 5 Name
Corey Sparks
Presenter 5 Affiliation
Indiana Univ.-Bloomington
Paper Title 6
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Presenter 6 Name
Robert Rouse
Presenter 6 Affiliation
Univ. of British Columbia
Paper Title 7
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Presenter 7 Name
Jonathan Hsy
Presenter 7 Affiliation
George Washington Univ.
Start Date
10-5-2014 1:30 PM
Session Location
Fetzer 1005
Description
Imagine you live in a world filled with symbols, inscrutable marks, and confusing scribbles. No, you’re not in a literary thriller — this is our world. Punctuation marks infiltrate and inform our everyday experiences, but they have their own histories as well. They structure, relate, balance, and invoke; they collide, confuse, limit, and terminate. This roundtable takes punctuation and other typographical marks as the starting point for eclectic and inventive readings/meditations on Medieval Studies. This session will feature short presentations on any modern or archaic characters, on the ubiquitous and the niche, and on the intelligible and the cryptic. As Keith Houston writes on his website, Shady Characters, “These shady characters, these typographic raconteurs hiding in plain sight, [are] too good to miss.” The presentations from this panel will be collected into a volume, edited by Rick Godden, to be published by punctum books in 2014.
Eileen A. Joy
#;()@?":—*! (A Roundtable)
Fetzer 1005
Imagine you live in a world filled with symbols, inscrutable marks, and confusing scribbles. No, you’re not in a literary thriller — this is our world. Punctuation marks infiltrate and inform our everyday experiences, but they have their own histories as well. They structure, relate, balance, and invoke; they collide, confuse, limit, and terminate. This roundtable takes punctuation and other typographical marks as the starting point for eclectic and inventive readings/meditations on Medieval Studies. This session will feature short presentations on any modern or archaic characters, on the ubiquitous and the niche, and on the intelligible and the cryptic. As Keith Houston writes on his website, Shady Characters, “These shady characters, these typographic raconteurs hiding in plain sight, [are] too good to miss.” The presentations from this panel will be collected into a volume, edited by Rick Godden, to be published by punctum books in 2014.
Eileen A. Joy