French historian Roger Chartier, a world reference in studies on the history of books, publishing and reading, will be at UFMG as a guest of the Cátedras FUNDEP/IEAT program in September.

During his stay at the university, Roger Chartier will carry out three activities open to the public, all in Portuguese. On September 25th, from 2pm to 5pm, Roger Chartier will give the lecture What is a book? The book as discourse, the book as an object. The activity will take place in the Graciela Inés Ravetti de Gómez Auditorium of the Faculty of Languages, Literature, and Linguistics (Fale) at UFMG. Professors Eliana Dutra, from the Faculty of Philosophy and Human Sciences (Fafich), and Ana Utsch, from the School of Fine Arts (EBA) and the Postgraduate Program in Literature: literary studies (Post-lit) at Fale, participate in the table. The event is the result of a partnership between Projeto Brasiliana (Fafich) and Fale’s Post-lit.

On September 26th, from 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm, Roger Chartier will participate in the meeting The editorial world in question in the Congregation Room of the Faculty of Languages, Literature, and Linguistics (Fale) at UFMG. Bringing together specialists from the broad spectrum of book and publishing studies, the event will take place based on the book Um mundo sem livrees e sem librarias?, with essays by Roger Chartier brought together by Guiomar de Grammont, from the Federal University of Ouro Preto, who will participate in the meeting alongside professors Sônia Queiroz, from the Faculty of Arts, and Ana Utsch, from the School of Fine Arts. Places are limited, upon registration via email: museuvivomemoriagrafica@gmail.com

 

On September 27th, the Grand Conference The mobility and materiality of texts in the era of digital reproducibility will be held, at 10 am, in the auditorium of the Rectory of UFMG. A certificate of participation will be issued to anyone who registers in the Event Management System and signs the attendance list on the day of the event.

The opening of the conference will feature the participation of the dean Sandra Regina Goulart Almeida and the director of IEAT, Patrícia Kauark Leite. Professor Ana Utsch, from EBA, will mediate.

The conference aims to explore the contemporary challenges posed by digital culture. Taking as a starting point the concept of textual mobility and five categories that transcend the limits of the text (attribution, variants, materiality, migration between genres and languages, and reading practices), Roger Chartier will discuss the transformations caused by the digitization of documentary sources and its implications for research practices.  At the conference, transformations in graphic-editorial aspects and radical mutations in the uses intended for texts will be debated, as will the ways of organizing and conserving written culture and the symbolic statutes of scientific practice.

About the professor

Professor emeritus at the Collège de France, historian linked to the tradition of the École des Annales, and currently a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania (USA), Roger Chartier worked for decades at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in France. His work – which directly contributed to the consolidation of the field of Cultural History – marked the formation of more than a generation of historians and scholars of cultural practices and, especially, of the world of books, publishing and reading. Roger Chartier, who collects distinctions and prizes awarded by prestigious institutions around the world, such as, for example, the Prix Gobert, still in 1992, maintains a long dialogue with the research developed in Brazil, through numerous and frequent publications and the realization courses and lectures at different institutions. His seminars at EHESS and the Collège de France, true spaces of knowledge, have become, over the decades, a meeting point for researchers from all over the world. Among his most recent publications in Brazil are: Editing and translating. Mobility and materiality of texts – 16th-18th centuries (Unesp, 2023) and Maps and fictions, 16th to 18th centuries (Unesp, 2024).