The material turn in the philologies has made us aware that a main characteristic in manuscript cultures is variance in almost any aspect of a text, spanning from language and orthography to structure and content, as well as production and reception processes. Both in historically oriented disciplines (new philology) and in literary studies (genetic criticism), these insights have led to a reevaluation of the manuscript as a fluid text. Cognitive theory, on the other hand, reminds us that the mind is embedded, embodied, enactive and extended (4E cognition), giving us conceptual tools to link the materiality of a manuscript to the creative minds of the agents engaging in various types of writing and reading processes. In this workshop, we invite speakers to discuss textual and material variations in manuscripts, in connection to creativity and cognition.

Invited speakers

• Olga Anokhina, Researcher at l’Institut des textes et manuscrits modernes-ITEM, CNRS
• Dirk van Hulle, Professor of Bibliography and Modern Book History at the University of Oxford, and director of the Centre for Manuscript Genetics at the University of Antwerp

Speakers

• Alexandra Effe, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages, UiO
• Stefka G. Eriksen, Research Professor at Norsk institutt for kulturminneforskning, NIKU
• Alpo Honkapohja, Postdoctoral Fellow in British-American at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages, UiO
• Karin Kukkonen, Professor in Comparative literature, UiO
• Hugo Lundhaug, Professor of Biblical Reception and Early Christian Literature, UiO
• Mikael Males, Professor in Medieval Studies, UiO
• Stijn Vervaet, Associate Professor in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian and Balkan Studies, UiO
• Michelle Waldispühl, Associate Professor in German linguistics and language acquisition at the University of Gothenburg

Programme