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Calendar

ses #	TOPICS
1	Introduction
2	Framing Questions
3	Codex Books and Medieval Writers and Readers
4	Debating the Print Revolution
5	Printing and the Scientific Revolution A Visit to the Burndy Library
6	The Stage and the Page, Renaissance to Romanticism
7	Modernity, Media Change and Meaning: The Nineteenth Century
8	Vision: Early Photography (Guest Lecturer: Prof. David Ciarlo, History Faculty)
9	Sound: The Making of the Phonograph
10	Motion: Early Film and Its Social and Cultural Contexts
11	The Situation Today: A Digital Revolution?
12	Presentations I
13	Presentations II

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