Courses:

Each student will sign up for one class presentation; since there are more students than class sessions, some of you will present jointly. The purpose of the presentations is to frame the issues in the readings that week, and relate these themes to previous sessions. In addition, the presenter will report on at least one of the supplemental readings listed on the syllabus.

Presenters should plan to speak between twenty and thirty minutes at the beginning of class. If you exceed thirty minutes, I may cut you off. DO NOT READ FROM A PREPARED TEXT! Prepare an outline of your remarks prior to class, which you will distribute to everyone in the seminar via e-mail not later than 3 PM the day of our class meeting. You are free to organize your presentations in any manner you wish, but at a minimum you should do the following:

• Summarize the issues and debates raised in the readings
• Summarize at least one supplemental reading (you may do more if you wish), and relate its themes and arguments to our general reading for the week
• Frame several broad questions to initiate our class discussion
  

Presentations on these subjects are quite rich in images which cannot be published here for copyright reasons. Some students also created notes to accompany their presentation; several of these are available below.

Codex Books and Medieval Writers and Readers (PDF) (Courtesy of Andrea McCarty. Used with permission.)

Vision: Early Photography (PDF) (Courtesy of Rekha Murthy and Karen Schrier. Used with permission.)

Sound: The Making of the Phonograph (PDF) (Courtesy of Marianthi Liapi. Used with permission.)