Rare Book School

Paper Session 11: Comparative Histories of the Book Session Organizers: Megan McNamee (Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts) & Caroline Wigginton (University of Mississippi) Moderator: Will Noel (Director of the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts and Director of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania) Melissa Adler (Wester...

Paper Session 10: Reading the Whole Book: Object Interpretation Session Organizers: Lauren Jennings (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) & Elizaveta Strakhov (Marquette University) Moderator: Stephen Nichols (Professor Emeritus and Research Professor; James M. Beall Professor Emeritus of French and Humanities, Johns Hopkins University) Ellen Handy (The City College of New York, CUNY) “The...

Paper Session 9: Manuscript in the Age of Print Session Organizers: Rachael King (University of California, Santa Barbara) & Marissa Nicosia (Penn State University, Abington College) Moderator: Margaret J.M. Ezell (Distinguished Professor of English and John and Sara Lindsey Chair of Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University) Mimi Ensley (University of Notre Dame) “Manuscript, Romance, and the Visual Lan...

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 (Univers...

Paper Session 7: The Social Life of Books: Uses of Text & Image Beyond Reading & Viewing Session Organizers: Aaron M. Hyman (Johns Hopkins University), Hannah Marcus (Harvard University), Marissa Nicosia (Penn State University, Abington College) Moderator: Leah Price (Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, Harvard University) Melissa Reynolds (Rutgers University) “Consuming the Wor...

Paper Session 6: Materiality of Digital Objects Session Organizer: Ryan Cordell (Northeastern University) Moderator: Matthew G. Kirschenbaum (Professor, Department of English, University of Maryland) Meaghan Brown (Folger Shakespeare Library) & Jessica Otis (Carnegie Mellon University Library) “Name That Book: Identifying Digital Objects During Research and Discovery” Alan Galey (University of Tor...

Paper Session 5: Degradation, Loss, Recovery & Fragmentation Session Organizer: Jane Raisch (University of York) Moderator: Arthur Bahr (Associate Professor of Literature, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Niv Allon (Metropolitan Museum of Art) “Gem wesh (found missing): Representing Ancient Fragmentary Texts and Their Lacunae” Kristopher Driggers (University of Chicago) “Manuscript Alteratio...

Paper Session 4: Transmission & Transfer of Images Session Organizer: Aaron M. Hyman (Johns Hopkins University) Moderator: Kathryn Rudy (Director of Research, School of Art History, University of St. Andrews) David A. Brewer (Ohio State University) “Copies, Transfers, and Excerpts; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Derivative” Elizabeth Bacon Eager (Southern Methodist University) “Jo...

Paper Session 3: Questions of Scale, Production & Labor Session Organizer: Juliet Sperling (University of Pennsylvania) Moderator: Suzanne Karr Schmidt (George Amos Poole III Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts, The Newberry) Megan Cook (Colby College) “Craven Ord’s Brass Rubbings: Size, Scope, and Scale in Antiquarian Practice” Will Hansen (The Newberry) “Extra-Illustrated Editions: The Case of...

Paper Session 2: Textual Instruments Session Organizer: Nick Wilding (Georgia State University) Moderator: Ann Blair (Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor of History and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Harvard University) Ivana Horacek (University of Minnesota) “Instrumental Images and Gifts of Knowledge: Stars, Books, and Instruments” Jennifer Nelson (School of the Art Institute of Chicago...

Paper Session 1: Graphic Representation: Illustration & Diagrams Session Organizer: Claire Eager (University of Virginia) Moderator: Michael Sappol (Independent scholar, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study) Holly Borham (Princeton University) “Itinerant Images: Crossing Boundaries of Confession, Geography, and Media in Early Modern Germany” Michael Patrick Kuczynski (Tulane University) “Imaging M...

Plenary Session 3: “Bibliography Among the Disciplines” Community Plenary Session Organizers: András Kiséry (The City College of New York) and Marissa Nicosia (Penn State University, Abington College) Note that this session also includes closing remarks to the conference by Rare Book School Executive Director Michael F. Suarez, S.J., by conference co-chairs Barbara Heritage and Donna Sy, and by Me...

Plenary Session 2: The Future of the Past: Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age Nancy Y. McGovern (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) “Making Digital Practice Work for Our Collections” W. Brent Seales (University of Kentucky) “Emergent Practices for Non-Invasive Analysis of Artifacts” Session Organizer: Stephanie Ann Frampton (MIT) See the conference website at http://rarebookschool.org/biblio...

Plenary Session 1: "Historicizing Critical Bibliography" Anthony Grafton (Princeton University): “Bio-Bibliography in Early Modern Europe: Towards a History of Practice” François Deroche (Chair in the History of the Qur’an, Text and Transmission, Collège de France): “From One Giant to Another: Bio-Bibliographical Practice in the Islamic World (10th–17th Centuries)” Session Organizers: Vera Keller...

Lecture 619 (1 November 2017), celebrating the 25th anniversary of Rare Book School's arrival at the University of Virginia

Lecture 618 (31 July 2017)

Lecture 616 (24 July 2017) Speaker: Meredith L. McGill, Associate Professor of English, Rutgers University

Lecture 614 (12 July 2017). The 2017 Sol. M. and Mary Ann O’Brian Malkin Lecture

Lecture 613 (10 July 2017) Speaker: Glen Miranker, Sherlock Holmes Collector

Lecture 612 (12 June 2017). Beinecke Library, Yale University Speaker: Kathryn James, Curator of Early Modern Books and Manuscripts & the Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University

Lecture 611 (12 June 2017). Watch the accompanying video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bggttPftmVs

Lecture 610 (5 June 2017). Full title "Hunting for Textual Bodies: Rethinking the Relationship between the Poetic Voice and Manuscript Matter"

Lecture 422 (12 July 1999)

Lecture 609. Delivered at the RBS-UVA Fellowship Luncheon, 10 May 2017. Barbara Heritage introduces Rare Book School founding director Terry Belanger, who introduces Samantha Wallace as the winner of the 2017 Betsy and Stuart Houston Prize.

Why are modern day readers still responsive to "Jane Eyre," and how do their readings influence the life of the text? UVA's Linden Kent Memorial Professor Karen Chase (Brontë scholar and author of "Eros & Psyche") leads a discussion with author Patricia Park ("Re Jane") and RBS curator Barbara Heritage (“Shaping Eyre”) about the enduring influence of Charlotte Brontë’s nineteenth-century novel, "J...