2011 Conference
10:30-10:40 WELCOMING REMARKS
Alex Csiszar (History of Science, Harvard University)
10:40-12:00
Chair: Leah Price (English, Harvard University)
Sam Fallon (English, Yale University)
Thomas Nashe, the Elizabethan Pamphlet Market, and the Question of Literature
Lucy Mulroney (Visual & Cultural Studies, University of Rochester)
Preliminaries for a New Approach to Artists' Books
12:00-1:00 LUNCH BREAK
Session 2. PUBLISHING POLITICS AND THE TRANSNATIONAL BOOK1:00-3:00
Chair: David Hall (Divinity School, Harvard University)
Asheesh Kapur Siddique (History, Columbia University)
Terror in Print: Marx, Britain, and the Hostile Reception of The Civil War in France in Victorian Britain, 1871-1878
Nathan Suhr-Sytsma (English, Yale University)
Mbari Publications as Postcolonial Book History
Jamie Jungmin Yoo (EALC, Harvard University)
Sino-Korean Book Circulation and Poetry Communities in late 18th century Korea
3:30-5:30
Chair: Kathryn James (Beinecke Library, Yale University)
Hilary Menges (English, Yale University)
Eighteenth-Century Literary Monumentality and the Future of Book History
Jesse Rainbow (NELC, Harvard University)
Fahrenheit 586 (BCE, that is): The Hebrew Bible Burned and Restored
Gregory Afinogenov (History, Harvard University)
An Occult International History of the Oeconomy of Human Life
5:30-6:00 CONCLUDING REMARKS AND FUTURE PLANS
If you have questions or would like more information, please contact Meredith Quinn (quinn at fas.harvard.edu). For Yale arrangements, please contact Hilary Menges (Hilary.menges at yale.edu).
The Humanities Center Seminar in the History of the Book is directed by Ann Blair, David Hall, Leah Price, and Robert Darnton.
Banner image is a detail from a photograph taken at an exhibit on the roof of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Site Mitterand) during Nuit Blanche 2007.