History of the Book

HISTORY OF THE BOOK SPEAKER: Kim Gallon, Africana Studies, Brown University

HISTORY OF THE BOOK SPEAKERS: Matthew Aiello, Devin Fitzgerald, Molly Schwartzburg, Jennifer Roberts Featuring four flashtalks: "Material Traces of Linguistic Trauma in Twelfth-Century England" - Matthew Aiello, Society of Fellows, Harvard "Global and/or...

HISTORY OF THE BOOK SPEAKER: Holly Shaffer, History of Art, Brown University

HISTORY OF THE BOOK DIAGRAMS ACROSS DISCIPLINES: HISTORY, THEORY, PRACTICE SPEAKER: J.H. Chajes, Wolfson Professor of Jewish Religious Thought, University of Haifa Co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies, the Early Modern Workshop, and the Mahindra...

DIAGRAMS ACROSS DISCIPLINES: HISTORY, THEORY, PRACTICE HISTORY OF THE BOOK SPEAKER: Matthew Landrus, Wolfson College and the Faculty of History, University of Oxford For the mechanical and pictorial arts in early modern Italy, diagrams and proportional...

HISTORY OF THE BOOK SPEAKER: Camille Owens, Harvard Society of Fellows The history of American childhood depends on books. This is because white Americans have understood children through their literacy acquisition since the eighteenth century, because...

HISTORY OF THE BOOK SPEAKER: Shamil Jeppie, University of Cape Town This lecture surveys five centuries of collecting in Timbuktu, a town in the interior of West Africa, that has come to symbolize a larger world of learning and book culture in the region...

HISTORY OF THE BOOK SPEAKERS: Irene Peirano Garrison (Classics), Jeffrey Hamburger (History of Art and Architecture), John Brewer (History), Matthew Battles (Arnold Arboretum) Featuring four flashtalks: “Writing from the margins: women in the Latin...

HISTORY OF THE BOOK Program: 9:00-9:15 - Opening Remarks 9:15-11:00 - Panel 1: Bookish Encounters: Imperialism and Cultural Exchange, chaired by Priyasha Mukhopadhyay (English, Yale University) kristen iemma (Brown): “Politics and Power in the Publication...

HISTORY OF THE BOOK SPEAKERS: JEAN-CHRISTOPHE CLOUTIER (University of Pennsylvania), TARA BYNUM (University of Iowa), JARVIS GIVENS (Harvard University), ELIZABETH McHENRY (New York University) ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION II Tara Bynum, Six Degrees of Phillis...