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HISTORY OF THE BOOK
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.
Graduate Conference Schedule 2021 | 53 KB |