Our conference intern, Anna, wrote about the Reading visuals conference. Read their post here: sites.utu.fi/hiiskuttua/a...

Our conference assistant blogs about the recent @emodgral.bsky.social conference blogit.utu.fi/englishturku...

The final keynote of the conference was given by Andrew Riggsby on The Segmentation of Roman Documents.

Pronouns on the page with @jansfi.bsky.social at the Reading Visual devices conference

Starting Day 2 of Reading Visual Devices Conference: the morning started with keynote Carla Suhr's lecture after which we enjoyed coffee together📚

Day 1 of Reading Visual Devices was a huge success! Some of the amazing speakers included our very own Matti Peikola and Mari-Liisa Varila. Can't wait to hear more fascinating papers tomorrow!

Dr. Hanna Salmi on the representations of movement in early dance manuals.

Reading visual devices conference started off with a great keynote by Professor Wendy Scase on the visual reading of family genealogies. 📖📚

Our post-doc Aino Liira's article on reader interaction with graphic devices is out now in Renaissance Studies! doi.org/10.1111/rest...

Welcome to the 9th Material Text Seminar - a workshop with Peter J. Grund: "Space, spacing, and pace, and the fictional representation of speech" on May 28th. This is a zoom event, and all are welcome! Sign up here: konsta.utu.fi/Default.aspx....

My first venture into the 17th century, in collaboration with Jukka Tyrkkö, is now available in Graphic Practices and Literacies in the History of English, ed. by M. Peikola, J. Tyrkkö & @mlvarila.bsky.social (Brepols).

New book edited by @emodgral.bsky.social project members! www.brepols.net/products/IS-...

Seminar IX coming up! Workshop by Peter Grund (University of Yale): “Space, spacing, pace, and the fictional representation of speech”. Wednesday 28 May 2025, at 16.00-18.00 EEST, on Zoom.

Project's new book, Graphic Practices and Literacies in the History of English (ed by Peikola, Tyrkkö, @mlvarila.bsky.social) is now available for preorder! www.brepols.net/products/IS-...

@mlvarila.bsky.social on the development of data collection principles for the EModGraL project: blogit.utu.fi/emodgral/202...

Two days to the abstract deadline! Chop chop!

A new publication by Matti Peikola and @mlvarila.bsky.social, 'Presenting Manuscript tables and diagrams to the Middle English reader'. Go see more at blogit.utu.fi/emodgral/202....

CfP2 for our conference on graphic/visual devices is out! See more at blogit.utu.fi/emodgral/202...

CfP 1 for our conference, Reading visual devices in early books, is out! Keynote speakers: Prof. Andrew M. Riggsby (University of Texas) Prof. Wendy Scase (University of Birmingham) Dr Carla Suhr (University of Helsinki) For more information, see blogit.utu.fi/emodgral/202...

(Photo by Antti Ijäs!)

EModGraL scholar @sirkkur.bsky.social at Humboldt-Kolleg (Helsinki, 13-15.3) on the diagrammatics of English 16th c. military manuals.

The Early Modern Graphic Literacies project, funded by the Reseach Council of Finland, 2021-25, is now on Bluesky! We study English printed books 1500-1800 to find out how graphic devices e.g. tables and diagrams were used in the #EarlyModern period. #BookHistory