Rare Book School Lectures

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.