Rare Book School Lectures

Lecture 200 (18 November 1985). Full title: "The Development of Conservation and Bookbinding at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center" Note: The audio for the Q&A portion is very quiet.

Lecture 283 (27 July 1989)

Lecture 425 (19 July 1999)

Short Presentations 6: The Book and Its Time: Developing a ‘Period Eye’ Session Organizer: Marie-Stéphanie Delamaire (Winterthur Museum) Moderator: Catharine Dann Roeber (Assistant Professor of Decorative Arts and Material Culture at the Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library) Gabriella Angeloni (University of South Carolina) & Molly Bruce Patterson (Newport Historical Society) “William Ellery as Reader at the Newport Historical Society” David Brewer (Ohio State University) “Objects under Pressure” Brad Eden (Valparaiso University) “The Library of Michael H. R. Tolkien: A Snapshot of Twentieth-Century British Politics and Culture” Alea Henle (Western New Mexico University) “Books and their Histories: Sources Survival in Historical Scholarship” Eric Holzenberg (The Grolier Club of New York) “The Aesthetic Movement in Print & Beyond” See the conference website at http://rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017/ for more information about the conference.

Short Presentations 5: Dynamics of Digital Collections Session Organizer: Paul Fyfe (North Carolina State University) & Zachary Hines (The University of Texas at Austin) Moderator: Alex Gil (Digital Scholarship Coordinator, Humanities and History Division, Columbia University Libraries) Lindsay DiCuirci (University of Maryland) & Molly Hardy (American Antiquarian Society) “Serials Cataloging and Alternative Access in the Classroom, or the Making of Mill Girls in Nineteenth-Century Print” Fenella France (Library of Congress) “The Digital Cultural Object: New Digital Layers for Document and Object Archaeology” Margaret Hagerty Gamm (University of Iowa) “The Global Manuscript and the Digital Boutique” Jessica Savage (Princeton University) “Dynamics of a Digital Art History Collection: Index of Christian Art 2.0” See the conference website at http://rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017/ for more information about the conference.

Short Presentations 4: Teaching Global Book History Session Organizers: Devin Fitzgerald (Harvard University) & Ben Nourse (University of Denver) Moderator: Joseph Howley (Associate Professor of Classics, Columbia University) Devin Fitzgerald (Harvard University) “Stone, Wood, Copper, Lead: The Multimedial Adventures of the Xi’an Nestorian Stele in the 17th-Century World” Florence C. Hsia & Robin Rider (University of Wisconsin, Madison) “Traduttore, Traditore: What’s in a Translation?” Chris Hunter (California Institute of Technology) “The American Instructor: Teaching Minds and Hands in Colonial America” Bryan C. Keene (J. Paul Getty Museum and Courtauld Institute of Art) “Manuscripts and the Global Middle Ages” Holly Shaffer (Brown University) “Edward Moor’s The Hindu Pantheon (1810)” See the conference website at http://rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017/ for more information about the conference.

Short Presentations 3: Hands-on Demonstration – Teaching with Stuff: Building Bibliographical Collections at Rare Book School with Limited (or no) Financial Resources; or, Necessity Is the Mother of Invention Session Presenter: Terry Belanger (Founding Director, Rare Book School, University of Virginia), with Barbara Heritage (Rare Book School) See the conference website at http://rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017/ for more information about the conference.

Short Presentations 2: Innovative Pedagogy with Material Objects Session Organizer: Elizabeth Yale (University of Iowa) Moderator: Michael F. Suarez, S.J. (Director, Rare Book School; Professor of English, University Professor, Hon. Curator of Special Collections, University of Virginia) Rhae Lynn Barnes (University of Southern California; Princeton University) & Stephanie Elizabeth Beck Cohen (Indiana University) “Stitched Histories of Government & Grief: Teaching Quilts as Texts in the Black Transatlantic” Kyle Dugdale (Yale School of Architecture) “Bibliographical Architectures” Adam Hooks (University of Iowa) “How Does It Work and Why Is It Here? Teaching Text as Technology” Rebecca Wingfield (Stanford University) “Hearing the Voices of the Past: Teaching with Audio Recordings of Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’” See the conference website at http://rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017/ for more information about the conference.

Short Presentations 1: Tools for Data Analysis & Visualization Session Organizer: Ryan Cordell (Northeastern University) Moderator: Meredith L. McGill (Associate Professor of English, Rutgers University) Kathryn Desplanque (Duke University) “Accountable Note-Taking: Qualitative Data Analysis Software as an Augmented Personal Research Tool” Alessandra Panzanelli Fratoni (University of Oxford; The British Library) & Matilde Malaspina (University of Oxford, Lincoln College) “Visual Recognition, Image-matching and Digital Annotation: Early Printed Book Illustrations within the 15cBOOKTRADE Project” Elyse Graham (The State University of New York, Stony Brook University) “Database Thinking and Deep Description: Designing a Digital Archive of the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS)” Rebecca Hankins (Texas A&M University) “A Catalyst for Social Activism: The Digital Black Bibliographic Project at Texas A&M University” Dot Porter (University of Pennsylvania) “VisColl: Visualizing the Physical Structure of M

Roundtable 6: Ethics & Responsibility in the Bibliosphere Session Organizer: Claire Eager (University of Virginia) Moderator: Katherine Reagan (Assistant Director for Collections & Ernest L. Stern Curator of Rare Books & Manuscripts, Cornell University) Jeremy Dibbell (Rare Book School) “Announcing Major Acquisitions: A Responsibility” Eliza Gilligan (University of Virginia) “Through the Fold: Choices in Book Conservation and the Impact on the Social History of the Book” Nina Musinsky (Musinsky Rare Books) “Artifacts or Time Machines? Examples from the Field” Elizabeth Ott (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) “Ethical Collecting in Special Collections Librarianship” Todd Pattison (Northeast Document Conservation Center) “A Profitable Examination: The Binding of Six Months in a Convent” Setsuko Yokoyama (University of Maryland, College Park) “Negotiating Open Access for All Interested Parties” See the conference website at http://rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017/ for more inform

Roundtable 5: Materiality as a Sustainable Humanistic Discourse Session Organizers: Dahlia Porter (University of Glasgow) & Elizabeth Yale (University of Iowa) Moderator: Heather Wolfe (Curator of Manuscripts, Folger Shakespeare Library) Erika Mary Boeckeler (Northeastern University) “The Linguistic Biases of Descriptive Bibliography” Raina Joines (University of North Texas) “The Scholar’s Art: Making & Mining Material Artifacts” Robert Riter (University of Alabama) “Engaging and Representing Scientific Data through Book Art” Todd Victor Samuelson (University of Utah) “Lexical Substrate: The Materiality of Language in the History of the Book” Leslie Smith (Winston-Salem, NC) “From Wonder to New Artwork” Simran Thadani (San Francisco, CA) “Rare Books Beyond the Ivory Tower” See the conference website at http://rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017/ for more information about the conference.

Roundtable 4: Digitization, Representation & Access Session Organizers: Paul Fyfe (North Carolina State University) & Sonia Hazard (Franklin & Marshall College) Moderator: Rebecca Hankins (Associate Professor and Archivist/Librarian of Africana Studies and Women’s & Gender Studies, Texas A&M University) Dan Blim (Denison University) “The Complete Package: Reissuing Albums, Reshaping Histories” Eleanor Jane Reeds (University of Connecticut) “Digitizing the Corpus: Responsible Representations of Female Bodies in Literary Archives” Charles R. Welsko (West Virginia University) “Raising the Buried Voices: Nineteenth-Century African-Americans and Digital Archives” Sarah Werner (Rockville, MD) “Collaborating for an Accessible Past” See the conference website at http://rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017/ for more information about the conference.

Roundtable 3: Authorship Session Organizers: András Kiséry (The City College of New York) & Caroline Wigginton (University of Mississippi) Moderator: Matt Cohen (Associate Professor of English, University of Nebraska-Lincoln) Katy Chiles (University of Tennessee) “Alternative Black Authorship” Molly Des Jardin (University of Pennsylvania) “Rethinking the Oeuvre: Modern Japanese Periodicals as Corporate Authors” Sonja Drimmer (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) “Undeciding the Author in the Illuminated Manuscript of Middle English Verse” Zachary Lesser (University of Pennsylvania) “Shakespeare as Author and Apocrypha” Michelle Levy (Simon Fraser University) & Kandice Sharren (Simon Fraser University) “Beyond Authorship: Professional Networks and the Women’s Print History Project” Chad Wellmon (University of Virginia) “Print and the Invention of Philosophy Around 1800” See the conference website at http://rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017/ for more information about the conference.

Roundtable 2: Performance, Textuality & Orality Session Organizer: Glenda Goodman (University of Pennsylvania) Moderator: Kate van Orden (Dwight P. Robinson Jr. Professor of Music, Harvard University) Bethany Cencer (Crane School of Music, State University of New York at Potsdam) “Imagining Aurality in Smart’s Vocal Pocket Companion” Andrew Ferguson (University of Virginia) “Catching Them All: Videogame Performance and the Bibliography of Play” Leslie Gay, Jr. (University of Tennessee) “Shadows of Black and White: Materialities and Medialities in May Irwin’s ‘Frog Song’” Laura Helton (Pennsylvania State University) “The Bibliographical Afterlives of ‘Unwritten Histories’” Jesse Karlsberg (Emory University) “Surfacing Race, Place, and Modernity in the Performance of Shape-note Musical Texts through an Ethnobibliographical Approach” See the conference website at http://rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017/ for more information about the conference.

Pop-Up Session 1: Critical Bibliography and Social Justice (Roundtable) Please note: due to a technical difficulty (the recorder got unplugged, we only have audio of the question and answer session for this panel) Organizer & Moderator: Caroline Wigginton (University of Mississippi) Melissa Adler (Western University) Rhae Lynn Barnes (University of Southern California; Princeton University) Alex Galarza (Haverford College) Chris Hunter (California Institute of Technology) Dorothy Kim (Vassar College) Clare Mullaney (University of Pennsylvania) Priyasha Mukhopadhyay (Harvard University) See the conference website at http://rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017/ for more information about the conference.

Paper Session 12: Reappraising the Redundant: The Value of Copies in the Study of Textual Artifacts Session Organizer: Katherine Mintie (DePauw University) Moderator: David Whitesell (Curator, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia) Kristin Jensen (University of Virginia) “Discovering Unique Specimens in Print Collections: Lessons from Book Traces @ UVA” Jim Kuhn (Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin) “Portraits and Principles in Multiples” Adrienne Lundgren (Library of Congress) “Rewards of Redundancy: Recognizing the Research Value of Nineteenth-Century Photograph Manuals” Bryan Sinche (University of Hartford) “Redundancy is the Point: Nineteenth Century African American Literature in Motion” See the conference website at http://rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017/ for more information about the conference.

Paper Session 11: Comparative Histories of the Book Session Organizers: Megan McNamee (Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts) & Caroline Wigginton (University of Mississippi) Moderator: Will Noel (Director of the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts and Director of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania) Melissa Adler (Western University – London) “A Book is Being Cataloged” Paul Dilley (University of Iowa) “Cultural and Textual Exchanges: The Manuscript Across Pre-Modern Eurasia” Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa (Occidental College) “Decentering Himalayan Buddhist Book History: The Influence of Location and Peripherality in the Creation of Innovations in Book Technology” Birgit Brander Rasmussen (Binghamton University) “From History of the Book to History of the Awikighan: A Native American Studies Approach to Comparative Book History” See the conference website at http://rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017/ for more informati

Paper Session 10: Reading the Whole Book: Object Interpretation Session Organizers: Lauren Jennings (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) & Elizaveta Strakhov (Marquette University) Moderator: Stephen Nichols (Professor Emeritus and Research Professor; James M. Beall Professor Emeritus of French and Humanities, Johns Hopkins University) Ellen Handy (The City College of New York, CUNY) “The Art of Ethnography in Photogravure: Reading Julia Peterkin and Doris Ullmann’s Roll, Jordan, Roll in Material Terms” Sarah Peters Kernan (Independent scholar) “Reading the Whole Book: Cookbooks in Late Medieval English Professional Manuscripts” Douglas Mark Klahr (University of Texas at Arlington) “Ambiguous Containers of Propaganda: Paradoxes of Nazi Stereoscopic Photo Books” Tara Lyons (Illinois State University) “Reading the Whole Play Collection: Seneca Beyond the Commonplace” See the conference website at http://rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017/ for more information about the conference.

Paper Session 9: Manuscript in the Age of Print Session Organizers: Rachael King (University of California, Santa Barbara) & Marissa Nicosia (Penn State University, Abington College) Moderator: Margaret J.M. Ezell (Distinguished Professor of English and John and Sara Lindsey Chair of Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University) Mimi Ensley (University of Notre Dame) “Manuscript, Romance, and the Visual Language of Print” Emily Friedman (Auburn University) “Manuscripts and Metadata: Taxonomizing Manuscript Fiction in the Age of Print” Samyak Ghosh (Columbia University) “The Past in the Scriptorium: Manuscripts, Print, and Literacy in Colonial Northeast India” Alex Hidalgo (Texas Christian University) “Bicephalous Between the Pages” See the conference website at http://rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017/ for more information about the conference.

Paper Session 8: Books as Agents of Contact Session Organizers: Hansun Hsiung (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science), András Kiséry (The City College of New York), Yael Rice (Amherst College) Moderator: Isabel Hofmeyr (Professor of African Literature, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg; Global Distinguished Professor of English, New York University) John R. Blakinger (University of Southern California) “The Book as Agent of Interstellar Contact: The Voyager Record/The EchoStar XVI Artifact” David Mervart (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain) “A Kyūshū Warlord’s Favorite French Anthology: The Many Lives of a Text” Priyasha Mukhopadhyay (Harvard University) “Plagiarism as Cultural Contact: The Case of the Theosophical Society” See the conference website at http://rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017/ for more information about the conference.