2016 Conference

Harvard-Yale Conference in Book History
New Haven, CT
April 29, 2016
Sponsored by the Yale University English Department, the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library and the Seminar in the History of the Book at the Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard
 

9:45-10:15 am – Welcome, Coffee & Snacks

 

10:30 – 11:50 am – Means of Production (Chair: Jae Rossman, Yale University Library, Yale)

  • Miranda Sachs (History, Yale), “The School for “les arts du Livre”: Training for Book-Making in Nineteenth-Century France”

  • Fan Wang (Comparative Literature, UMass Amherst), “The Distant Sound of Book Boats: The Itinerant Book Trade in Southern China, 1500-1700”

  • Christine Jacobson (Russian, Eastern Europe, and Central Asian Studies, Harvard), “Gutenberg Goes Overboard: How the Futurists Overturned Five Centuries of Print Convention”

 

11:50am – 12:00pm – Break

 

12:00pm – 1:00 pm – Polarizing Print (Chair: Hansun Hsiung, History and East Asian Languages, Harvard)

  • Huan Jin (East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard), “Arguing for a Renewed Heavenly Vision: The Taiping Heavenly Chronicle (Taiping tianri)”

  • María Gracia Ríos (Spanish and Portuguese, Yale), “Claiming Sovereignty: Sir Francis Drake and the Just Titles of Spain to the Indies”

 

1:00 – 2:10 pm – Lunch Break

 

2:10 – 3:30 pm – Republics of Letters (Chair: Thomas Bolze, Beinecke Library, Yale)

  • Zhenya Sakal (History, Yale), “Shaping the network: professors, pupils and book-publishers in seventeenth century Ukraine and Russia”

  • John Garcia (Harvard), “Transatlantic Rambles: John Dunton, Colonial New England, and the London Book Trade, 1686 to 1700”

  • Rachel Wamsley (Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard), “Judah Monis’s Dickdook Leshon Gnebreet and its (Absent) Audiences”

 

3:30 – 3:50 pm – Break

 

3:50 – 4:50 pm – Vernacular Networks (Chair: Jonathan Kramnick, English, Yale)

  • Agnieszka Rec (History, Yale), “Is the life of a book a bibliography?: Jagiellonian University BJ 5465 and the Alchemists of Cracow”

  • Nicolas Roth (South Asian Studies, Harvard), “Every Word a Rosebush of Eloquence, Every Sentence a Garden of Style: The Emergence of Vernacular Horticultural Manuals in 19th-Century India”