2013 Conference

Harvard-Yale Conference in Book History

May 2, 2013

Barker Center, Room 133

Sponsored by the Yale University Department of English, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and the Seminar in the History of the Book at the Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard

 10:15 am -- Welcome, Coffee & Snacks

 10:35 - 11:40 am -- Ordering Knowledge, Ordering Books (Chair: David Hall, Harvard Divinity School)

Paul Davis (Princeton/Harvard), "The Bible 'Chopped and Minced': Locke on Scriptural Typography"

Meredith Quinn (Harvard), "'A work of great charity': The Koprulu Library and Manuscript Collection in Early Modern Istanbul"

 11:40 am - 12:45 pm -- Engaging Anonymity (Chair: Ray Clemens, Beinecke Library, Yale)

William Weber (Yale), "Interpreting Multiplicity: Early Modern Marginalia in Golding's Ovid"

Thomas Koenigs (Yale), "Anonymity versus Fictionality: Competing Forms of Impersonality in the Early American Public Sphere"

12:45 - 1:45 pm -- Lunch Break

1:45 - 3:30 pm -- Figuring Materiality (Chair: Kathryn James, Beinecke Library, Yale)

Niv Allon (Yale), "The Likeness of an Author: Scribal Statues in New Kingdom Ancient Egypt (1550-1070 BCE)"

Carol Chiodo (Yale), "Of Pens and Poetry: Manuscript Production in Italian Vernacular Verse"

Stephanie Dick (Harvard), "Rewriting Principia Mathematica into the Digital: Automated Theorem Proving and the Media of Mathematics"

3:30 - 4:00 pm -- Break

4:00 - 5:45 pm -- Print Modernity (Chair: Alex Csiszar, History of Science, Harvard)

Daniel Jump (Yale), "The Physiognomy of the Books Themselves': Eighteenth-century Polemical Writing on Religion in Print"

Kathryn Schwartz (Harvard), "The History of a Look: The Aesthetic Influences of Nineteenth-Century Cairo's Written Output"

Antoine Lentacker (Yale), "Publicity and Authority: Rhetorical Strategies in the Advertising of Drugs, France & Austria, 1880-1925"