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****2012 HARVARD-YALE CONFERENCE IN BOOK HISTORY****

**New Haven, CT  
Thursday, May 3, 2012  
Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Rm. 319  
10:20 am - 6:00 pm**

*Sponsored by the Yale University Department of English and the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library*

**SCHEDULE**

**Welcoming Remarks** 10:20-10:30

**Session 1: AUTHORSHIP AND REPRODUCTION** 10:30-12:45

Chair: **[Jessica Brantley](http://english.yale.edu/faculty-staff/jessica-brantley)** (English, Yale)

**Anita Savo** (Spanish and Portuguese, Yale), "Another Don Juan's Twice-Told Tale: Vernacular Authorship in a Manuscript Culture"

**Isabelle Levy** (Comparative Literature, Harvard), "Tracing Anthology in Medieval Italy: From Italian to Hebrew"

**Jens Eriksson** (History of Science, Uppsala / History, Harvard), "The Pirates' Congress: Counterfeits in Vienna, 1814-1815"

**Ryan Max Riley** (French, Yale), "Forging Originality: Readability and Reader's Ability in the Plagiarism of Stendahl and his Printer, Pierre Didot *l'aîne*"

**Lunch and Beinecke Exhibit Tour for Participants** 12:45-2:15

**Session 2: GENRE AND COMPILATION** 2:15-3:55

Chair: **[David Kastan](http://english.yale.edu/faculty-staff/david-scott-kastan)** (English, Yale)

**Eric Weiskott** (English, Yale), "'A Bablynge of Dokes': Fifteenth-Century Terms of Association in Beinecke MS 163"

**He Bian** (History of Science, Harvard), "Putting Cures to Print: Reincarnations of a Seventeenth-Century Chinese *Materia Medica*"

**Miranda Molledorf** (History of Science, Harvard), "Transience, Time, and Territory: The Changing States of Prints in Robert John Thornton's *Temple of Flora* (1797-1812)"

**Coffee Break** 3:55-4:20

**Session 3: REINVENTING FOR THE MARKETPLACE** 4:20-6:00

Chair: **[Ann Blair](http://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/faculty/blair.php)** (History, Harvard)

**Kristin Williams** (EALC, Harvard), "Mischief and Marketing in an Eighteenth-Century Japanese Picturebook for Children"

**Sam Malissa** (EALL, Yale), "*Wabun Eiyaku* and the Curious Beginnings of Modern Japanese Literature in English Translation"

**Ren Wei** (HAA, Harvard), "Art By the Book: Tao Yuanqing's Book Cover Design for Lu Xun"



 

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