2025 RGME Autumn Colloquium (IN PERSON): "Break-Up Books & Make-Up Books"

By invitation, this special 2025 Autumn Colloquium brings the RGME tradition of hybrid events to the University of Waterloo.

NOTE: THIS REGISTRATION PORTAL is for Attendance IN PERSON for the full span of the Colloquium in person at Princeton on

• Friday 21 November at Princeton University (three venues: morning, afternoon, and reception) and
• Saturday 22 November at the Nassau Presbyterian Church, Nassau Street.

Starting with Friday Morning 21 November at Green Hall, Princeton University, Washington Road, Princeton.

For other IN PERSON times and locations, see our Eventbrite Collection Portal and the Colloquium HomePage:
https://manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/2025-rgme-autumn-colloquium-on-fragments/
Please see our other portal to register for Attendance ONLINE (Friday to Sunday 21-23 November):
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-rgme-autumn-colloquium-online-break-up-books-make-up-books-tickets

Plan

With the presentations and related activities planned for this event, "Break-Up Books" meet "Make-Up Books". We explore the phenomena of widely dispersed remnants of dismembered manuscripts and other written materials scattered at the hands of Otto F. Ege (1888-1951) and other biblioclasts, for a variety of purposes more and less laudable.

We will showcase work being done in various centers and by many individuals on these materials, as part of long-term, laborious, significant, and sometimes dispersed research, which seeks to identify, reclaim, and insofar as possibly, virtually reconstrict the originals and place them in context. Workshops and demonstrations will bring the materials to life.

Registration/Donations

Circumstances lead us to charge a modest registration fee to attend this 3-day event. The extra costs for preparations in several formats and from different locations require a registration fee (for in person or online attendance).
1) $60 US per person for General Attendance
2) Student Discount for Official Students at $35 per person. When registering for this discount, please let us know your registered affiliation as a student.
3) The fee is waived only for Speakers and Presiders, for whose contributions we give thanks.

When you register, we ask you please to consider adding the Eventbrite handling fee for the transaction, as a contribution to the RGME's costs for this event.

We also encourage you to consider adding a Voluntary Donation in support of the RGME, a Section 501(c)(3) nonprofit educational organization principally powered by volunteers and your contributions. The year 2025 has posed challenges for funding for the RGME. We are grateful for help to continue our work and mission. Your donations are most welcome.

We thank you for your support and your interest in the Colloquium.

Information

On this event, see:
https://manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/2025-rgme-autumn-colloquium-on-fragments/

Image: Cambridge, Magdalene College, Pepys Library, P: 2981, p. 4, no. 3. Psalter Psalm 38(37)20, 32. Leaf No. 2 in 'Calligraphical albums assembled by Samuel Pepys in 1700, with commentary by Humfrey Wanley. Image via https://fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-7wo4; CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 license.

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