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**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”