Rare Book School Lectures

Paper Session 7: The Social Life of Books: Uses of Text & Image Beyond Reading & Viewing Session Organizers: Aaron M. Hyman (Johns Hopkins University), Hannah Marcus (Harvard University), Marissa Nicosia (Penn State University, Abington College) Moderator: Leah Price (Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, Harvard University) Melissa Reynolds (Rutgers University) “Consuming the Word: Late Medieval Medical Charms and the Curative Power of Writing” Kathryn Rudy (University of St. Andrews) “Touching Skin: Why Medieval Readers Rubbed and Kissed their Manuscripts” Fan Wang (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) “The Uses, Abuses, and Misuses of Books in Early Modern China” See the conference website at http://rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017/ for more information about the conference.

Paper Session 6: Materiality of Digital Objects Session Organizer: Ryan Cordell (Northeastern University) Moderator: Matthew G. Kirschenbaum (Professor, Department of English, University of Maryland) Meaghan Brown (Folger Shakespeare Library) & Jessica Otis (Carnegie Mellon University Library) “Name That Book: Identifying Digital Objects During Research and Discovery” Alan Galey (University of Toronto) “Bibliography for a Used Future: What Bibliographical Methods Can Teach Us About Digital Artifacts (and Vice Versa)” Rieke Jordan (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main) “The Analog/Digital File” See the conference website at http://rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017/ for more information about the conference.

Paper Session 5: Degradation, Loss, Recovery & Fragmentation Session Organizer: Jane Raisch (University of York) Moderator: Arthur Bahr (Associate Professor of Literature, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Niv Allon (Metropolitan Museum of Art) “Gem wesh (found missing): Representing Ancient Fragmentary Texts and Their Lacunae” Kristopher Driggers (University of Chicago) “Manuscript Alteration and Stylistic Evolution: Why Codex Durán Kept its Changes Visible” Megan Heffernan (DePaul University) “‘Filthy, Tattered, and Torn’: Disbound Manuscripts and the History of Waste” Clare Mullaney (University of Pennsylvania) “Dickinson’s Fragments: Limitation, Constraint, and an Early History of Print Disability” See the conference website at http://rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017/ for more information about the conference.

Paper Session 4: Transmission & Transfer of Images Session Organizer: Aaron M. Hyman (Johns Hopkins University) Moderator: Kathryn Rudy (Director of Research, School of Art History, University of St. Andrews) David A. Brewer (Ohio State University) “Copies, Transfers, and Excerpts; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Derivative” Elizabeth Bacon Eager (Southern Methodist University) “John Jenkins’s Ingenious Mechanics: The Visual and Physical Construction of Authorship in Early America” Roger Gaskell (Roger Gaskell Rare Books) “Newton and Cotes; London and Cambridge” See the conference website at http://rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017/ for more information about the conference.

Paper Session 3: Questions of Scale, Production & Labor Session Organizer: Juliet Sperling (University of Pennsylvania) Moderator: Suzanne Karr Schmidt (George Amos Poole III Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts, The Newberry) Megan Cook (Colby College) “Craven Ord’s Brass Rubbings: Size, Scope, and Scale in Antiquarian Practice” Will Hansen (The Newberry) “Extra-Illustrated Editions: The Case of Irving’s Life of George Washington, 1889” Lauren Williams (University of Toronto) “Uncovering the Saint Cuthbert Gospel Binding” See the conference website at http://rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017/ for more information about the conference.

Paper Session 2: Textual Instruments Session Organizer: Nick Wilding (Georgia State University) Moderator: Ann Blair (Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor of History and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Harvard University) Ivana Horacek (University of Minnesota) “Instrumental Images and Gifts of Knowledge: Stars, Books, and Instruments” Jennifer Nelson (School of the Art Institute of Chicago) “Basilischco, Elifanntto, Tiruno: The Holzschuher War Machines Revisited” Suzanne Karr Schmidt (The Newberry) “Making Time and Space: Collecting Early Modern Printed Instruments” E.R.Truitt (Bryn Mawr College) “The Necessity of Invention: Roger Bacon’s Speculative Technology” See the conference website at http://rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017/ for more information about the conference.

Paper Session 1: Graphic Representation: Illustration & Diagrams Session Organizer: Claire Eager (University of Virginia) Moderator: Michael Sappol (Independent scholar, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study) Holly Borham (Princeton University) “Itinerant Images: Crossing Boundaries of Confession, Geography, and Media in Early Modern Germany” Michael Patrick Kuczynski (Tulane University) “Imaging Monasticism: The St. Gall Plan as a Meditative Object” Meekyung MacMurdie (University of Chicago) “Proven Recipes: Text, Image, and Diagram in Arabic Medical Manuscripts” Fabienne Moore (University of Oregon) “Gustave Doré’s Histoire de la Sainte Russie (1854): The Invention of Graphic Rhetoric or the Artist At War” See the conference website at http://rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017/ for more information about the conference.

Plenary Session 3: “Bibliography Among the Disciplines” Community Plenary Session Organizers: András Kiséry (The City College of New York) and Marissa Nicosia (Penn State University, Abington College) Note that this session also includes closing remarks to the conference by Rare Book School Executive Director Michael F. Suarez, S.J., by conference co-chairs Barbara Heritage and Donna Sy, and by Mellon Society of Fellows President Stephanie Ann Frampton. See the conference website at http://rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017/ for more information about the conference.

Plenary Session 2: The Future of the Past: Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age Nancy Y. McGovern (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) “Making Digital Practice Work for Our Collections” W. Brent Seales (University of Kentucky) “Emergent Practices for Non-Invasive Analysis of Artifacts” Session Organizer: Stephanie Ann Frampton (MIT) See the conference website at http://rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017/ for more information about the conference.

Plenary Session 1: "Historicizing Critical Bibliography" Anthony Grafton (Princeton University): “Bio-Bibliography in Early Modern Europe: Towards a History of Practice” François Deroche (Chair in the History of the Qur’an, Text and Transmission, Collège de France): “From One Giant to Another: Bio-Bibliographical Practice in the Islamic World (10th–17th Centuries)” Session Organizers: Vera Keller (University of Oregon), Yael Rice (Amherst College) Note that this session also includes general welcoming remarks to the conference by Rare Book School Executive Director Michael F. Suarez, S.J. and by conference co-chairs Barbara Heritage and Donna Sy. See the conference website at http://rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017/ for more information about the conference.

Lecture 619 (1 November 2017), celebrating the 25th anniversary of Rare Book School's arrival at the University of Virginia

Lecture 618 (31 July 2017)

Lecture 616 (24 July 2017) Speaker: Meredith L. McGill, Associate Professor of English, Rutgers University

Lecture 614 (12 July 2017). The 2017 Sol. M. and Mary Ann O’Brian Malkin Lecture

Lecture 613 (10 July 2017) Speaker: Glen Miranker, Sherlock Holmes Collector

Lecture 612 (12 June 2017). Beinecke Library, Yale University Speaker: Kathryn James, Curator of Early Modern Books and Manuscripts & the Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University

Lecture 611 (12 June 2017). Watch the accompanying video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bggttPftmVs

Lecture 610 (5 June 2017). Full title "Hunting for Textual Bodies: Rethinking the Relationship between the Poetic Voice and Manuscript Matter"

Lecture 422 (12 July 1999)

Lecture 609. Delivered at the RBS-UVA Fellowship Luncheon, 10 May 2017. Barbara Heritage introduces Rare Book School founding director Terry Belanger, who introduces Samantha Wallace as the winner of the 2017 Betsy and Stuart Houston Prize.