University Park, PA -- Join Roger Chartier for his lecture "Languages, Books, and Reading Practices from Print Culture to Digital Era" on Thursday, March 20, 2003, at 6:00 p.m., in the Foster Auditorium, 101 Pattee Library.

Chartier, Directeur d'Etudes at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris) and Annenberg Visiting Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, is one of the most well-known and respected historians of Early Modern European history, cultural history, and the history of print culture.

He is the author of The Cultural Uses of Print in Early Modern France (1987); Cultural History: Between Practices and Representations (1988); The Cultural Origins of the French Revolution (1991); The Order of Books: Readers, Authors, and Libraries in Europe between the Fourteenth and Eighteenth Centuries (1994); Forms and Meanings: Texts, Performances, and Audiences from Codex to Computer (1995); On the Edge of the Cliff: History, Language, and Practices (1997); and the co-editor of A History of Reading in the West (1999).

Chartier's visit to Penn State is co-sponsored by the Penn State departments: French; History; Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese; Comparative Literature; and Film/Video and Media Studies, as well as the Center for Language Acquisition, the Committee on Early Modern Studies, the Special Collections Library, the University Libraries, the Penn State Center for the History of the Book, and the Pennsylvania Center for the Book.

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