Rare Book School Lectures

Roundtable 3: Authorship Session Organizers: András Kiséry (The City College of New York) & Caroline Wigginton (University of Mississippi) Moderator: Matt Cohen (Associate Professor of English, University of Nebraska-Lincoln) Katy Chiles (University of Tennessee) “Alternative Black Authorship” Molly Des Jardin (University of Pennsylvania) “Rethinking the Oeuvre: Modern Japanese Periodicals as Corporate Authors” Sonja Drimmer (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) “Undeciding the Author in the Illuminated Manuscript of Middle English Verse” Zachary Lesser (University of Pennsylvania) “Shakespeare as Author and Apocrypha” Michelle Levy (Simon Fraser University) & Kandice Sharren (Simon Fraser University) “Beyond Authorship: Professional Networks and the Women’s Print History Project” Chad Wellmon (University of Virginia) “Print and the Invention of Philosophy Around 1800” See the conference website at http://rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017/ for more information about the conference.

Roundtable 2: Performance, Textuality & Orality Session Organizer: Glenda Goodman (University of Pennsylvania) Moderator: Kate van Orden (Dwight P. Robinson Jr. Professor of Music, Harvard University) Bethany Cencer (Crane School of Music, State University of New York at Potsdam) “Imagining Aurality in Smart’s Vocal Pocket Companion” Andrew Ferguson (University of Virginia) “Catching Them All: Videogame Performance and the Bibliography of Play” Leslie Gay, Jr. (University of Tennessee) “Shadows of Black and White: Materialities and Medialities in May Irwin’s ‘Frog Song’” Laura Helton (Pennsylvania State University) “The Bibliographical Afterlives of ‘Unwritten Histories’” Jesse Karlsberg (Emory University) “Surfacing Race, Place, and Modernity in the Performance of Shape-note Musical Texts through an Ethnobibliographical Approach” See the conference website at http://rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017/ for more information about the conference.

Pop-Up Session 1: Critical Bibliography and Social Justice (Roundtable) Please note: due to a technical difficulty (the recorder got unplugged, we only have audio of the question and answer session for this panel) Organizer & Moderator: Caroline Wigginton (University of Mississippi) Melissa Adler (Western University) Rhae Lynn Barnes (University of Southern California; Princeton University) Alex Galarza (Haverford College) Chris Hunter (California Institute of Technology) Dorothy Kim (Vassar College) Clare Mullaney (University of Pennsylvania) Priyasha Mukhopadhyay (Harvard University) See the conference website at http://rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017/ for more information about the conference.

Paper Session 12: Reappraising the Redundant: The Value of Copies in the Study of Textual Artifacts Session Organizer: Katherine Mintie (DePauw University) Moderator: David Whitesell (Curator, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia) Kristin Jensen (University of Virginia) “Discovering Unique Specimens in Print Collections: Lessons from Book Traces @ UVA” Jim Kuhn (Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin) “Portraits and Principles in Multiples” Adrienne Lundgren (Library of Congress) “Rewards of Redundancy: Recognizing the Research Value of Nineteenth-Century Photograph Manuals” Bryan Sinche (University of Hartford) “Redundancy is the Point: Nineteenth Century African American Literature in Motion” See the conference website at http://rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017/ for more information about the conference.

Paper Session 11: Comparative Histories of the Book Session Organizers: Megan McNamee (Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts) & Caroline Wigginton (University of Mississippi) Moderator: Will Noel (Director of the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts and Director of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania) Melissa Adler (Western University – London) “A Book is Being Cataloged” Paul Dilley (University of Iowa) “Cultural and Textual Exchanges: The Manuscript Across Pre-Modern Eurasia” Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa (Occidental College) “Decentering Himalayan Buddhist Book History: The Influence of Location and Peripherality in the Creation of Innovations in Book Technology” Birgit Brander Rasmussen (Binghamton University) “From History of the Book to History of the Awikighan: A Native American Studies Approach to Comparative Book History” See the conference website at http://rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017/ for more informati

Paper Session 10: Reading the Whole Book: Object Interpretation Session Organizers: Lauren Jennings (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) & Elizaveta Strakhov (Marquette University) Moderator: Stephen Nichols (Professor Emeritus and Research Professor; James M. Beall Professor Emeritus of French and Humanities, Johns Hopkins University) Ellen Handy (The City College of New York, CUNY) “The Art of Ethnography in Photogravure: Reading Julia Peterkin and Doris Ullmann’s Roll, Jordan, Roll in Material Terms” Sarah Peters Kernan (Independent scholar) “Reading the Whole Book: Cookbooks in Late Medieval English Professional Manuscripts” Douglas Mark Klahr (University of Texas at Arlington) “Ambiguous Containers of Propaganda: Paradoxes of Nazi Stereoscopic Photo Books” Tara Lyons (Illinois State University) “Reading the Whole Play Collection: Seneca Beyond the Commonplace” See the conference website at http://rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017/ for more information about the conference.

Paper Session 9: Manuscript in the Age of Print Session Organizers: Rachael King (University of California, Santa Barbara) & Marissa Nicosia (Penn State University, Abington College) Moderator: Margaret J.M. Ezell (Distinguished Professor of English and John and Sara Lindsey Chair of Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University) Mimi Ensley (University of Notre Dame) “Manuscript, Romance, and the Visual Language of Print” Emily Friedman (Auburn University) “Manuscripts and Metadata: Taxonomizing Manuscript Fiction in the Age of Print” Samyak Ghosh (Columbia University) “The Past in the Scriptorium: Manuscripts, Print, and Literacy in Colonial Northeast India” Alex Hidalgo (Texas Christian University) “Bicephalous Between the Pages” See the conference website at http://rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017/ for more information about the conference.

Paper Session 8: Books as Agents of Contact Session Organizers: Hansun Hsiung (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science), András Kiséry (The City College of New York), Yael Rice (Amherst College) Moderator: Isabel Hofmeyr (Professor of African Literature, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg; Global Distinguished Professor of English, New York University) John R. Blakinger (University of Southern California) “The Book as Agent of Interstellar Contact: The Voyager Record/The EchoStar XVI Artifact” David Mervart (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain) “A Kyūshū Warlord’s Favorite French Anthology: The Many Lives of a Text” Priyasha Mukhopadhyay (Harvard University) “Plagiarism as Cultural Contact: The Case of the Theosophical Society” See the conference website at http://rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017/ for more information about the conference.

Paper Session 7: The Social Life of Books: Uses of Text & Image Beyond Reading & Viewing Session Organizers: Aaron M. Hyman (Johns Hopkins University), Hannah Marcus (Harvard University), Marissa Nicosia (Penn State University, Abington College) Moderator: Leah Price (Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, Harvard University) Melissa Reynolds (Rutgers University) “Consuming the Word: Late Medieval Medical Charms and the Curative Power of Writing” Kathryn Rudy (University of St. Andrews) “Touching Skin: Why Medieval Readers Rubbed and Kissed their Manuscripts” Fan Wang (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) “The Uses, Abuses, and Misuses of Books in Early Modern China” See the conference website at http://rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017/ for more information about the conference.

Paper Session 6: Materiality of Digital Objects Session Organizer: Ryan Cordell (Northeastern University) Moderator: Matthew G. Kirschenbaum (Professor, Department of English, University of Maryland) Meaghan Brown (Folger Shakespeare Library) & Jessica Otis (Carnegie Mellon University Library) “Name That Book: Identifying Digital Objects During Research and Discovery” Alan Galey (University of Toronto) “Bibliography for a Used Future: What Bibliographical Methods Can Teach Us About Digital Artifacts (and Vice Versa)” Rieke Jordan (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main) “The Analog/Digital File” See the conference website at http://rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017/ for more information about the conference.

Paper Session 5: Degradation, Loss, Recovery & Fragmentation Session Organizer: Jane Raisch (University of York) Moderator: Arthur Bahr (Associate Professor of Literature, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Niv Allon (Metropolitan Museum of Art) “Gem wesh (found missing): Representing Ancient Fragmentary Texts and Their Lacunae” Kristopher Driggers (University of Chicago) “Manuscript Alteration and Stylistic Evolution: Why Codex Durán Kept its Changes Visible” Megan Heffernan (DePaul University) “‘Filthy, Tattered, and Torn’: Disbound Manuscripts and the History of Waste” Clare Mullaney (University of Pennsylvania) “Dickinson’s Fragments: Limitation, Constraint, and an Early History of Print Disability” See the conference website at http://rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017/ for more information about the conference.

Paper Session 4: Transmission & Transfer of Images Session Organizer: Aaron M. Hyman (Johns Hopkins University) Moderator: Kathryn Rudy (Director of Research, School of Art History, University of St. Andrews) David A. Brewer (Ohio State University) “Copies, Transfers, and Excerpts; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Derivative” Elizabeth Bacon Eager (Southern Methodist University) “John Jenkins’s Ingenious Mechanics: The Visual and Physical Construction of Authorship in Early America” Roger Gaskell (Roger Gaskell Rare Books) “Newton and Cotes; London and Cambridge” See the conference website at http://rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017/ for more information about the conference.

Paper Session 3: Questions of Scale, Production & Labor Session Organizer: Juliet Sperling (University of Pennsylvania) Moderator: Suzanne Karr Schmidt (George Amos Poole III Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts, The Newberry) Megan Cook (Colby College) “Craven Ord’s Brass Rubbings: Size, Scope, and Scale in Antiquarian Practice” Will Hansen (The Newberry) “Extra-Illustrated Editions: The Case of Irving’s Life of George Washington, 1889” Lauren Williams (University of Toronto) “Uncovering the Saint Cuthbert Gospel Binding” See the conference website at http://rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017/ for more information about the conference.

Paper Session 2: Textual Instruments Session Organizer: Nick Wilding (Georgia State University) Moderator: Ann Blair (Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor of History and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Harvard University) Ivana Horacek (University of Minnesota) “Instrumental Images and Gifts of Knowledge: Stars, Books, and Instruments” Jennifer Nelson (School of the Art Institute of Chicago) “Basilischco, Elifanntto, Tiruno: The Holzschuher War Machines Revisited” Suzanne Karr Schmidt (The Newberry) “Making Time and Space: Collecting Early Modern Printed Instruments” E.R.Truitt (Bryn Mawr College) “The Necessity of Invention: Roger Bacon’s Speculative Technology” See the conference website at http://rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017/ for more information about the conference.

Paper Session 1: Graphic Representation: Illustration & Diagrams Session Organizer: Claire Eager (University of Virginia) Moderator: Michael Sappol (Independent scholar, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study) Holly Borham (Princeton University) “Itinerant Images: Crossing Boundaries of Confession, Geography, and Media in Early Modern Germany” Michael Patrick Kuczynski (Tulane University) “Imaging Monasticism: The St. Gall Plan as a Meditative Object” Meekyung MacMurdie (University of Chicago) “Proven Recipes: Text, Image, and Diagram in Arabic Medical Manuscripts” Fabienne Moore (University of Oregon) “Gustave Doré’s Histoire de la Sainte Russie (1854): The Invention of Graphic Rhetoric or the Artist At War” See the conference website at http://rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017/ for more information about the conference.

Plenary Session 3: “Bibliography Among the Disciplines” Community Plenary Session Organizers: András Kiséry (The City College of New York) and Marissa Nicosia (Penn State University, Abington College) Note that this session also includes closing remarks to the conference by Rare Book School Executive Director Michael F. Suarez, S.J., by conference co-chairs Barbara Heritage and Donna Sy, and by Mellon Society of Fellows President Stephanie Ann Frampton. See the conference website at http://rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017/ for more information about the conference.

Plenary Session 2: The Future of the Past: Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age Nancy Y. McGovern (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) “Making Digital Practice Work for Our Collections” W. Brent Seales (University of Kentucky) “Emergent Practices for Non-Invasive Analysis of Artifacts” Session Organizer: Stephanie Ann Frampton (MIT) See the conference website at http://rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017/ for more information about the conference.

Plenary Session 1: "Historicizing Critical Bibliography" Anthony Grafton (Princeton University): “Bio-Bibliography in Early Modern Europe: Towards a History of Practice” François Deroche (Chair in the History of the Qur’an, Text and Transmission, Collège de France): “From One Giant to Another: Bio-Bibliographical Practice in the Islamic World (10th–17th Centuries)” Session Organizers: Vera Keller (University of Oregon), Yael Rice (Amherst College) Note that this session also includes general welcoming remarks to the conference by Rare Book School Executive Director Michael F. Suarez, S.J. and by conference co-chairs Barbara Heritage and Donna Sy. See the conference website at http://rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017/ for more information about the conference.

Lecture 619 (1 November 2017), celebrating the 25th anniversary of Rare Book School's arrival at the University of Virginia

Lecture 618 (31 July 2017)