Opening panel and reception in book history: Idan Dershowitz (Harvard); Shiva Mihan (Harvard); Ann Blair (Harvard); Craig Robertson (Northeastern)
Date and Time
September 18, 2019
05:30PM - 07:30PM EDT
Location
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge
Opening panel and reception in book history: featuring flash talks by Idan Dershowitz (Harvard Society of Fellows), “The Dismembered Bible — Cutting and Pasting Scripture in Antiquity”; Shiva Mihan (Harvard Art Museums), “Books in Relief: A new form of Persian codex in the 19th century”; Ann Blair (History, Harvard), “When to end a text—examples from Conrad Gessner (1516-65)”; and Craig Robertson (Communication Studies, Northeastern), “"Loosening the Hold of the Book: Manila Folders and Filing Cabinets."
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on the History of the Book