#  Harvard-Yale-Brown Graduate Conference in Book History: Preservation, Absence, Erasure (Sponsor: Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in the History of the Book) 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **May 6, 2024** 

 All day 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Barker Center, room 133. 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138 (Harvard University)**  



 

 



 

[Please RSVP](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdSaIlVZAYIwmFFGQLqGa3clrrpFUIrYxBmuRUaEirYvVJqYA/viewform?usp=sf_link) [Schedule link](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TnacreVzolJ6US7R0sqgjHqLKbQFNCtc/edit?usp=sharing&rtpof=true&sd=true) Harvard-Yale-Brown Graduate Conference in Book History

 Preservation, Absence, Erasure

 Harvard University, Barker Center 133

 May 6, 2024

 9:30–11:15: Authorship

- Andrew Koenig, “Forster's Locked Journal (and Other Archival Omissions)”
- Jeffrey Careyva, “John Ashbery’s Evanescence & Preserving a Poet’s Library”
- Ruthie Block, “Another Recitation of Her Trace: On Dorothy Porter Wesley and Fugitive Planning for Fugitive Texts”
- Daniela Jara Rodríguez, “Following the Material Traces of an Untimely Idea: Atrás do Pensamento (ms), Objeto Gritante (ms) to Água Viva (1973) Ou Como Fazer um Anti-livro para Acabar com o Tempo”
 
 11:15–11:45: Break

 11:45–13:00: (Built) Environments

- Claire Climer, “‘More ways to branch than any cedar pencil will ever find’: Book Materiality in Richard Powers’s The Overstory (2018)”
- Paul Wu, “A Book as a Blueprint: Authenticity, Authority, and the Facsimile Reproduction of the Nashville Parthenon”
- Peter Haskin, “Miraculous Images Lost and Found in Villaseñors Theatro Americano (1746–48)”
 
 13:00–14:00: Lunch

 14:00–15:15: Publishers’ Choices

- Feier Ying, “Knowledge Replicas: Hand-Copying Books and the Continuity of Painting Knowledge in Seventeenth-Century Mount Yu, China”
- Shih-Yu Juan, “Beyond Written Text: Coordinating Diverse Printing Technologies for Scientific Translation in Late Nineteenth-Century China”
- Louise Moulin, “Absences as Catalysts: An Inquiry into Publishers and their Networks in 17th-Century Paris”
 
 15:15–15:45: Break

 15:45–17:00: Alternative Material Texts

- Sergio Leos, “Transatlantic Oral Communication in Sixteenth Century Iberian Empires”
- Andrew Suárez, “‘I Will Not Lose My Identity, for I Am Already Whole’: Recovering the Zine Archive, Zinesters of Color, and Reading Zines as Ephemera”
- Manny Medrano, “Quipu Fragmentology”
 


 

 



 

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