Recovering Lost Footprints: The New Mayan Narrators
216 Aaron Burr 216 Aaron Burr, Princeton"Recovering Lost Footprints" will trace the key characteristics of the new and recent fiction by Mayan authors in Central America, the Yucatan Peninsula and Chiapas, highlighting their epistemic dimensions and ontological implications. These narratives, written in both the authors’ native languages and their Spanish translation, are primarily organized around racialization, an end-result of the Spanish […]
Machines That Made Them: Identifying Twentieth-Century Duplicating Technologies
Firestone Library Rare Books and Special Collections Princeton University, PrincetonThis workshop will introduce the various duplicating technologies (from spirit duplication and xerography to electrofax and verifax) and explain their particular characteristics, with examples from typical publications and documents produced by these means. It will also differentiate duplication from printing and begin to discuss some of the bibliographic implications of these technologies.
