每位学生都要报名参加一次课堂陈述报告；因为学生人数比上课节数为多，所以有些人将要联合陈述。陈述报告的目的，是架构一周阅读内容的议题，并与之前课堂的主题相关。另外，陈述者要至少就教学大纲列出的一本补充读物发表报告。
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.

陈述者要计划在堂上陈述20到30分钟，过时中止。不要读准备的讲稿！在课前为陈述准备大纲，在上课当天下午三时前用电邮发给研讨会每一个人。你可以根据自己的意愿以任何形式自由组织陈述，但至少要做倒下列几点：
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:

• 总结阅读材料提出的问题和争论
  Summarize the issues and debates raised in the readings
• 总结至少一份补充读物（如果你愿意的话，可以总结更多），把它的主题和论点与这一周的一般阅读联系起来
  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
• 设计几个广义问题启动课堂讨论
  Frame several broad questions to initiate our class discussion
  

这些题目的陈述包含丰富的图片，但由于版权原因不能在这里发表。一些学生在陈述的同时还做笔记；以下是其中部份。
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.

古抄本和中世纪的作家与读者
Codex Books and Medieval Writers and Readers (PDF)（由Andrea McCarty提供。授权使用。）
(Courtesy of Andrea McCarty. Used with permission.)

视觉：早期的摄影
Vision: Early Photography (PDF) （由Rekha Murthyh和Karen Schrier提供。授权使用。）
(Courtesy of Rekha Murthy and Karen Schrier. Used with permission.)

声音：留声机的形成
Sound: The Making of the Phonograph (PDF) （由Marianthi Liapi提供。授权使用。）
(Courtesy of Marianthi Liapi. Used with permission.)