Words and images may co-exist peacefully, engage in border skirmishes, or plot each other's annihilation. For five days, listen as leading scholars report from the Word & Image field on book arts, political inscriptions, sacred words and images, scientific imaging, photographic texts, and more.

In addition to 46 conference sessions, don't miss a host of special events, including:

9/23, 5:30 pm: Reception and Exhibition Opening at Penn's Arthur Ross Gallery, Mapping the Pacific Coast: Coronado to Lewis and Clark

9/24, 5:30 pm: Reception and Exhibition Opening at the Rare Book Room of Penn's Library, From Book to Garden and Back: Works of Ian Hamilton Finlay

9/26, 8:00 pm: Special concert by the Philadelphia baroque orchestra, the Tempesta di Mare Chamber Players with soprano Julianne Baird

9/27, 6:00 pm: Keynote address by Pulitzer Prize-winning artist and graphic novelist Art Spiegelman