9:45am-10:00am
Welcome, Coffee, & Refreshments
10:00am-10:15am
Opening Remarks (John Durham Peters, María Rosa Menocal Professor of English and of Film & Media Studies, Yale)
10:15am-11:00am
Panel 1: Pastoral and Print (Ann Blair, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor, Harvard)
- Clio Doyle (English & Renaissance Studies, Yale), “Acorns in Print”
- Jakub Koguciuk (History of Art & Renaissance Studies, Yale), “Albrecht Durer in Arcadia: what is pastoral about a printed book?”
11:00am-11:15am
Break
11:15am-12:30pm
Panel 2: Media and the Archive (Jessica Brantley, Professor of English, Yale)
- Russ Gasdia (History, Yale), “The Curious Case of the Catalogus Librorum Mystico-Politicorum (1626)”
- Christopher Platts (History of Art, Yale), “Beinecke Marston MS 286: A New Witness to Bessarion’s Latin Learning and Humanist Book-Collecting ca. 1440”
- Rebecca Hill (English, UCLA), “Thesaurus as Devotional Material: Islamic Manuscripts and Reverence for the Word-Book”
- Matthew Keaney (History, Yale), “The Masiphumelele Library: Building a Township Library and Shaping a Culture of Reading in Post-Apartheid South Africa”
12:30pm-1:30pm
Lunch; optional visit to Beinecke exhibition “Text and Textile”
1:30pm-2:30pm
Panel 3: Migration and Circulation (David Scott Kastan, George M. Bodman Professor of English, Yale)
- Liam Ahern (Classics, Yale), “Chasing an Ancient Greek: Codicological Adventures in Post-war Europe”
- Caitlin Woolsey (History of Art, Yale), “Either, Or, Where: OU and the Circulating Voice”
- Tiraana Bains (History, Yale), “The Company Persianate: The Remaking of Persian Textual Production in Late Eighteenth Century South Asia”
2:30pm-2:45pm
Break
2:45pm-3:30pm
Panel 4: Ephemeral Dickens (Alex Csiszar, Associate Professor of the History of Science, Harvard)
- Bailey Sincox (English, Harvard), “Ephemerality and Fixity: Binding Dickens’ Public Readings”
- Thorsten Wilhelm (Visiting Scholar, Yale), “Ephemeral Material? Not at all? The relationship between ephemera and the novel: An example of Great Expectations”
3:30pm-3:45pm
Closing Remarks (Peter Stallybrass, Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania)
Sponsored by the Yale Program in the History of the Book and the Harvard Seminar in the History of the Book at the Mahindra Humanities Center.