Conference and GlobaLS seminar by Roger Chartier (École des hautes études en sciences sociales)

On June 1 and 2, French professor Roger Chartier, director of studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), will hold a conference and a seminar at Can Jaumandreu building, the new campus of UOC located at the 22@ district.

Plenary conference: Historia cultural y crítica textual. Movilidad y materialidad de los textos en la primera edad moderna, by Roger Chartier
June 1, from 12pm to 2pm (CET)
Organized by Faculty of Arts and Humanitites
Sala Polivalent – Can Jaumandreu. Perú 52, 08018, Barcelona

GlobaLS seminar: La materialidad de los textos en la época de su reproductibilidad digital, a cargo de Roger Chartier
June 2, from 12pm to 2pm (CET)
Internal seminar for the members of GlobaLS
Sala Polivalent – Can Jaumandreu. Perú 52, 08018, Barcelona

Suggested texts for the seminar:
· R. Chartier, P. Bourdieu, Le sociologue et l’historien, Agone, 2010. Chapter 3 ”Structure et individu” and chapter 4 “Habitus et campus”.
· R. Chartier, Escuchar a los muertos con los ojos, Katz, 2008.
· R. Chartier, “La conscience de la globalité (commentaire)”. In: Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales. 56e année, N. 1, 2001. pp. 119-123.
· R. Chartier, “Lenguas y lecturas en el mundo digital”, El presente del pasado. Escritura de la historia, historia de lo escrito, Universidad Iberoamericana, 2005.
· R. Chartier, “Communities of Readers”, Order of Books, Stanford University Press, 1994.

To attend the seminar, please contact GlobaLS’ communications officer Ramon Balcells (rbalcellsv@uoc.edu)

On Roger Chartier
He is a distinguished French historian and professor, specialized in the history of book, the history of publishing and the history of reading. He is a latest-generation member of the Annales school.

Chartier is Director d’Etudes at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris and Professor Emeritus at the Collège de France. He has been awarded the Annual Award of the American Printing History Association (1990) and is Honorary Doctor of Universidad Carlos III (Madrid) and Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Argentina).

He directed the Histoire de l’édition française (1989-1990) together with Henri-Jean Martin. Chartier is the author of numerous books as El mundo como representación (1992), Libros lecturas y lectores en la Edad Moderna (1993), El orden de los libros (1996) and the recent Éditer et traduire (2021).