Rare Book School Lectures

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