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**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).