2010 Conference

Harvard Graduate Student Conference in Book History
Sponsored by the Harvard Humanities Center Seminar for the History of the Book
Thursday, May 6 2010
Barker Center 133, Harvard University

Programme

12:00-1:00         Lunch for presenters and chairs

                          Welcoming remarks
 

Session 1.       TEXTS AND SOCIAL ORDER

1:00-3:00
Chair: Ann Blair (Henry Charles Lea Professor of History and Harvard College Professor, Harvard University)
 

Erik Linstrum (History, Harvard University)
Psychoanalysis as Social Therapy: Strachey, Bloomsbury and the Making of a Translator

Fei-Hsien Wang (History, University of Chicago)
Hunting Pirates in Beijing: Private Copyright Enforcement in 1930s China

Ren-Yuan Li (History & East Asian Studies, Harvard University)
Reading in Villages: Some Observation from a Family Collection in Southeastern China
 

Session 2.       CODIFICATION AND COMPILATION

3:15-4:30
Chair: David Hall  (Bartlett Research Professor of New England Church History, Harvard Divinity School)
 

Jessica Berenbeim (History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University)
The Visual Culture of the Cartulary

Alex Csiszar (History of Science, Harvard University)
Archiving Scientific Knowledge in Print circa 1900
 

Session 3.       WRITING AND READING NATURE

4:45-6:00
Chair: Leah Price  (Professor of English and Harvard College Professor, Harvard University)
 

Megan Shields Formato (History of Science, Harvard University)
Stuttering into Meaning: Niels Bohr's use of amanuenses in early drafts

Melinda Baldwin (History of Science, Princeton University)
"I Wish I Were Wise Enough to Understand More of It": Nature's Audience, 1869-1880


Concluding remarks and future plans


 

Banner image from detail of title page of the Revue Biblio-iconographique (Paris, 1895).