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## **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**