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CFP: 21st Annual Marco Manuscript Workshop

The Call for Papers for the 21st Annual Marco Manuscript Workshop, to take place 30–31 January 2026, at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has been extended to 14 November 2025 […]. The workshop is organized by Charles Kuper (Classics) and R. D. Perry (English) and is hosted by the Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

This year’s workshop explores the issues of “destruction and preservation.” As anyone working in the premodern period knows all too well, culture is fragile. It is beset by forces that would rather destroy it, sometimes intentionally, as when authorities make certain things verboten or seek to suppress them,