The symposium will feature talks and object-oriented workshops by scholars whose work examines the material practices, written forms, and objects of bureaucracy. The symposium seeks to comprehend the materiality of bureaucratic knowledge in Europe and the Atlantic world from 1450 to the present. Talks will examine the practical outcomes of new bureaucratic structures, from the emergence of domestic insurance schemes in the late 17th century, to the commercialization of 18th-century natural history, to 21st century digital bureaucracy. Speakers include James Delbourgo (Associate Professor, History of Science, Rutgers University), Mark Tebeau (Associate Professor, Public History, ASU), Eric Wertheimer (Professor of English and Associate Vice Provost, Arizona State University), and Martin Halbert (Dean of Libraries, UNT). Object-oriented workshops will be led by Ron Brooks (Associate Professor and Director of First Year Composition, Oklahoma State University), Casey Boyle (Assistant Professor, Rhetoric, UT Austin), Tim Cassedy (Assistant Professor, English, SMU), and Kelly Wisecup (Assistant Professor, English, UNT).