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**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"