2019 Conference

Harvard-Yale Conference in Book History

Robinson Hall , Harvard Yard

May 2, 2019

 

9:30–10:00: Coffee & Refreshments, Robinson Lower Library

10:00–10:05: Welcome and Acknowledgments, Robinson Lower Library

 

10:10–12:10: Panel 1

Religion and the Book (Chair: Peter Stallybrass), Robinson Lower Library

  • Ievgeniia (Zhenya) Sakal, “The Council of Florence Revisited: Bibliographical Strategies of the Learned Churchmen” 
  • Madeline McMahon, “From Print in the Archive to Printed Archive: Making Sense of Carlo Borromeo’s Acta ecclesiae Mediolanensis (1582)” 
  • Khalil Andani, “The Qur’ān: From Revelation to Book” 
  • Annika Schmeding, “Transcending Books: Publishing and Book Culture among Afghan Sufi Communities” 

 

Modern (Im)Materialities (Chair: Katharina Piechocki), Room 107, Robinson Hall

  • Pooja Sen, “Oral Histories: Valeria Luiselli, Contemporary Art, and the Writers of Teeth” 
  • Brandon Menke, “Ephemeral Objects: The Author, the Artist, and Sensuous Reaading in the Wake of AIDS” 
  • Emily Kanner, “Marina Tsvetaeva’s Magic Lantern” 
  • Geordie Kenyon Sinclair, “AB+VM: The Love Story in Verse of Two Women in the Gulag” 

 

12:15–13:15: Lunch, Robinson Lower Library

 

13:15–14:15: Panel 2

Digital Approaches (Chair: Doug Duhaime), Robinson Lower Library

  • Shiva Mihan, “Digitally Reconstructing a Medieval Persian Manuscript: Bāysunghur’s Rasāyil, Victim of a Dealer’s Greed” 
  • Nicholas Frisch, “A Book of Books: Digitally Mapping Anthologies in Late Ming China (1600– 1644)” 

 

Premodern Information (Chair: Alan Niles), Room 107, Robinson Hall

  • Alessia Bellusci, “Medieval and Early Modern Hebrew Books of Magic” 
  • Hayley Cotter, “The Admiralty Jurisdiction Debates and Legal Authority in Seventeenth-Century England” 

 

14:15–14:30: Break

 

14:30–16:00: Panel 3

The Book as Idea (Chair: Rachel Love), Robinson Lower Library

  • Kyle Conrau-Lewis, “Conrad von Waldhausen and Antiquity: Commentary, Book, Booklet?” 
  • Selin Unluonen, “A Composite Thing: The case of the Khamsa of Shah Tahmasp” 
  • Miriam Kamil, “Ovid’s Invidia and Prudentius’ Vices: Classical Poetry in a Medieval Florilegium” 

 

Manuscript and/or Print (Chair: David Stern), Room 107, Robinson Hall

  • Loren Waller, “Textual Genealogies and Adoption: Rethinking the Concepts of Manuscript, Authorship, and Legitimacy in Early Modern Japan” 
  • Dana Key, “‘But what is writ by hand we reverence more’: Reconstructing the Education and Moral Life of William Hill, a Leicestershire Yeoman (1574–1658)” 
  • Ishai Alon Mishory, “Threshold of Empire(s): The Soncino Colophon to Elijah Mizrahi’s Sefer Ha-mispar” 

 

16:00–16:30: Closing Remarks and Group Discussion, Robinson Lower Library