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Ephemera across the Atlantic: Popular Print Culture in Two Worlds
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This three-day symposium will explore the history of numerous genres of printed ephemera, tracing their origins in Europe, their transit to American shores, and their further development in this country. Genres to be discussed include Pennsylvania German, medical, Catholic, Jewish, and culinary ephemera. The slate of speakers includes print scholars from Germany, Great Britain, Sweden, and Canada, as well as the United States. The symposium will be held over two days at the sponsoring institutions, the Winterthur Museum & Country Estate (9/15) and the Library Company of Philadelphia (9/16). On 9/17 there will be an all-day excursion to the Pennsylvania Dutch country led by Don Yoder, professor emeritus of folklife studies and religious studies, University of Pennsylvania, who organized the symposium. The symposium coincides with an exhibition of Pennsylvania German broadsides at the Library Company and of Pennsylvania German fraktur at Winterthur. Register online at http://www.librarycompany.org/ephemera/index.htm
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