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Thursday, November 12, 2026

  • Decoding the Page: Emblems, Ornaments, and Early Modern Reading

    Time
    3:00 - 5:00 pm
    Location
    Main Library Room 346 — 1408 W. Gregory Dr, Urbana, IL 61801

    This event will highlight the collaborative project involving Emblematica Online (U of I), a digital library of emblem books, and Compositor (U of Birmingham), a database of printers’ ornaments. Dr. Hazel Wilkinson hypothesizes that “emblem-literacy” caused historical readers to engage with ornamented books in ways previously unaccounted-for in scholarship.