2015 Conference

2015 Harvard-Yale Graduate Conference in Book History

Monday, May 4, 2015

Barker Center Room 133, Harvard University

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

9:45 - 10:15           Arrival and Welcome

10:15 - 11:25         Text to Object Chair: Jinah Kim (History of Art and Architecture, Harvard)

• Katherine Hindley (Medieval Studies, Yale), "‘Mak a Rynge and Wryte With In’: Words Outside the Codex"
• Kyle Dugdale (Architecture, Yale), "Book of the Year, 1924"

11:25 - 11:40         Break

11:40 - 12:50         Patchwork genres Chair: Deidre Shauna Lynch (English, Harvard)

• Natasha Roule (Music, Harvard), "Rethinking Authorship at Late Eighteenth-Century Covent Garden"
• Marina Bilbija (English, Harvard), "Reading ‘Race Literature’ through a Periodical Lens"

12:50 - 2:00           Lunch

2:00 – 3:45            Institutions and collections Chair: Ann Blair (History, Harvard)

• Hannah Marcus (History, Stanford), "Prohibited Books in Catholic Libraries: The Case of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in the Early 17th Century"
• Kathryn Schwartz, "The Details and Importance of Manuscript Custom's Influence upon Printing in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Cairo"
• Melanie Chambliss (African American Studies and American Studies, Yale), "Organized, Catalogued and Classified as a Special Collection: Dorothy Porter and the Institutionalization of African American Studies"

3:45 – 4:05            Break

4:05 – 5:15            Unfinished and refinished books Chair: Raymond Clemens (Beinecke, Yale)

• Matthew David Larsen (Religious Studies, Yale), "I Did Not Author the Book I Wrote: Textual Fluidity and the Proliferation of Gospel Literature"
• Guangchen Chen (Comparative Literature, Harvard), "Urtext, Ausgabe letzter Hand and the Collector: Lu Xun’s Editing of Ji Kang"