Materiality and Book History (in the age of Zoom)

Date: 

Monday, May 3, 2021, 9:30am to 4:30pm

Location: 

Zoom Meeting

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12th ANNUAL HARVARD-YALE-BROWN GRADUATE CONFERENCE IN BOOK HISTORY

“Materiality and Book History (in the age of Zoom)”: 12 thAnnual Harvard-Yale-Brown Graduate Conference in Book History

Schedule:

9:50-10:00 - Opening Remarks

10:00-11:30 - Panel 1: The Book in Other Media, chaired by Professor Holly Shaffer (History of Art and Architecture, Brown)

● Tadas Bugnevicius (Yale): The Medium of the Book in Postwar French Cinema

● Chelsea Connelly (Yale): How to Judge a Book by Its Art: Analyzing Early Christian Visual Representations of Scrolls and Codices

● Joshua Wright (Harvard): Cartooning Religion: Underground Jesus ‘Comix’, Satire, and the American Counterculture ● Sofia Verba (Brown): A-Ya Magazine: Choosing Who Gets Taken into the Future

[30 minute break]

12:00-1:30 - Panel 2: The Materials of Communication,chaired by Professor Alex Csiszar (History of Science, Harvard)

● Graeme R. Reynolds (Harvard): The Circulation of the History of Koryŏ in Early Modern Korea

● Philippe Schmid (Harvard): Sharing Marks in Early Modern Books

● Alicia Petersen (Yale): Decoding Early Modern Gossip

● John Dilworth (Harvard): Musical reader-listeners in nineteenth-century Britain

[1 hour lunch]

2:30- 4:00 - Panel 3: Fragments, Scraps, and Structuresof Knowledge, chaired by Professor Ayesha Ramachandran (Comparative Literature, Yale)

● Lydia Bremer-McCollum (Harvard): Materializing Labor at Oxyrhynchus

● Kaitlyn Quaranta (Brown): A New Order of Things: Systems in the Encyclopédie

● Hattie Hafenrichter (Yale): Dealing with Death in Collages, Scrapbooks and Postmodern Text(iles)

● Kristen Herdman (Yale): The Book in Pieces in the Digital Age

4:00-4:15 - Closing Remarks

How To Join

Please add your name and email address to this registration page. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with a Zoom link and passcode to the event. 

If you have any questions, please email Ann Blair at amblair@fas.harvard.edu

Downloadable version of the conference schedule is attached below. 

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