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”