#  2011 Conference 

 



 ##  

  expand\_more  

 
  

 

**[Program Poster](http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic729383.files/Book_history_conf_program.pdf)**

Programme10:30-10:40 **WELCOMING REMARKS**   
 **[Alex Csiszar](http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~acsiszar/)** (History of Science, Harvard University)

Session 1. AT THE INTERFACE OF FORMAT AND GENRE10:40-12:00   
*Chair:* **[Leah Price](http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~lprice/)** (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](http://www.hds.harvard.edu/faculty/em/hall.cfm)** (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*

Session 3. BOOK HISTORY AND CULTURES OF MEMORY3:30-5:30   
*Chair*: **[Kathryn James](http://beinecke.commons.yale.edu/osbornearlymodern/)** (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](http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k65739&pageid=icb.page301561) 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.