Rare Book School Lectures

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.