Manuscript Workshop
The Marco Manuscript Workshop, originally founded by emeriti professors Roy Liuzza (English) and Maura Lafferty (Classics) is annual celebration of manuscript studies, paleography, codicology, and textual editing in the medieval world.
Each year, it brings together a range of scholars – from graduate students to senior professors – to present their work on a specific manuscript or group of manuscripts as it relates to the annual theme. The workshop is intended to be more like a class than a conference, with participants encouraged to share new discoveries and unfinished work, to discuss both successes and frustrations, to offer practical advice and theoretical insights, and to work together towards developing better professional skills for textual and codicological work.
Previous Manuscript Workshops
- 2026: “Destruction & Preservation”
- 2025: “Border Crossing”
- 2024: “The Whole Book”
- 2023: “Writing the World”
- 2022: “Interventions”
- 2021: “Immaterial Culture”
- 2020: “The Ends of Manuscripts”
- 2019: “Bits and Pieces”
- 2018: “Transmission”
- 2017: “Envisioning Knowledge”
- 2016: “Performing Texts”
- 2015: “Mind the Gaps”
- 2014: “Textual Communities”
- 2013: “Texts at Work”
- 2012: “Readers”
- 2011: “Editions and E-ditions: New Tools for Old Texts”
- 2010: “Unruly Letters & Unbound Texts”
- 2009: “Textual Trauma: Violence Against Texts”
- 2008: “Texts in Motion”
- 2007: “Everything but the Text”
- 2006: “Marco Manuscript Workshop”