Fall 2019/Spring 2020

FALL 2019

Wed Sept 18 5:30-7:30 Barker 133
Opening event: 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 19^th 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."

Wed Oct 23, 5:30-7:30 in Barker 133
Jennifer Chuong (Society of Fellows, Harvard), “The Fluid Surface: Marbling and Overmarbling in Early America,” with comment by Peter Stallybrass (English, University of Pennsylvania, emeritus).

Tues Nov 12, 5:30
Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg (Harvard Society of Fellows), “Halakhists, Humanists and Legal Codification. Systematizing Jewish religious legal knowledge in the early modern period” with comment by Charles Donahue (Harvard Law School). Barker Center 133, sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Book History

Thurs Nov 21, 6pm in Barker 133
Caroline Wigginton (English, University of Mississippi), “Hymncraft: Making Musicbooks and Community from the Native Northeast to Brotherton and Beyond,” with comment by Phil Deloria (History, Harvard). Co-sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminars on Eighteenth-Century Studies and on the History of the Book.

SPRING 2020

Mon Feb 24, 5:30pm
Erika Boeckeler (Northeastern University), "The Image of O in Othello and English Printers' Devices." Barker Center 133. Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Book History.

Thurs April 23, 5:15pm
Daniel Blank (Harvard Society of Fellows), "Tense Futures: Shakespeare's Macbeth and Gwinne's Tres Sibyllae". Co-sponsored by the Renaissance Colloquium of the Dept of English, the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Book History, and the Early Modern History Workshop. Robinson Hall, History Dept conference room.

Harvard-Yale grad conference in book history on Thurs April 30.