Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing

Taking place:

Oxford Brookes University, UK

24-28 June 2008

Programme

Tuesday 24 June 2008

12pm-2pm: Registration

The Buckley Building, Oxford Brookes University

10am-3pm Graduate Workshops

Bodleian Library

• The Medieval Book workshop - Christopher Clarkson, Julia Walworth
• The Book in the Hand Press period workshop - Kathryn Sutherland, Paul Nash

Oxford University Press

• Exploring British Publishers’ Archives, 1800-1945 - Bill Bell, Robert Fraser, Amy Flanders

Oxford Brookes University

• Exploring Research Methods for Contemporary Book Cultures - Danielle Fuller, DeNel Rehberg Sedo, Chris Fowler

Oxford University Press tours

must be booked through the registration form

• 10.30am-11.15am: Tour 1
• 12.00pm-12.45pm: Tour 2
• 2.00pm-2.45pm: Tour 3

Other events

9.30am-3pm Association of Publishing Education

Oxford Brookes University

Full details at http://ukape.org/conferences.html

9.30am-3.30pmSHARP Executive Council meeting

Oxford Brookes University

Conference formally opens

4pm Plenary lecture

Professor Juliet Gardiner: Mercurial Expectations and Uneasy Returns: The Lot of the Modern Author

Oxford Town Hall

Sponsored by the Oxford Bibliographical Society. Event open to Oxford Bibliographical Society members and all delegates.

6.30pm-8pm Reception at Blackwell Bookshop, Broad Street

Sponsored by Blackwell

Registration will also take place during this event

Wednesday 25 June 2008

Registration opens from 7.30am, Buckley Building, Oxford Brookes University

8.30am-10am Parallel Session 1

1a Form and Function of Scientific Media: German and British Medical Journals from the Interwar Years to the 1950s

• Chair: Marie Korey
• Gerlind Rueve Medical Journals and the Public Sphere. Mutual Influences Between Medicine, Media and Politics, 1919-1932
• Wiebke Lisner Voices of the Medical Profession? Functions and Profiles of Medical Journals in Germany and Great Britain during the Interwar Years
• Heiko Pollmeier Mirror of troubled times? British and German Medical Journals between Science, Education & Politics during the 1930s
• Sigrid Stoeckel Medical Journals after World War II: Confining the Message to strictly Medical Issues or Expanding Medical Expertise to Political Questions?

1b Teaching and Text in the Twentieth Century

• Chair: Steve Ball
• Patricia May Jurilla Book Alike: Publishing and Photocopying Textbooks in the Philippines
• Christina Lembrecht Books for All — Unesco’s Concern with Educational Publishing in Third World Countries

1c Bookselling and the Nation

• Chair: Angus Phillips
• Jyrki Hakapää Who Can Be Trusted to Run a Book Store Fluently? Choosing Best Possible Book Sellers in the 19th Century Finland
• Amadio Arboleda and Megumi Ishida Catalytic Role of Major Bookstores in National Book Culture: Case Study of Maruzen Company, Ltd.
• Sara Mori Published material for mass circulation between modern and contemporary Italy

1d Publishing and Global Conflict

• Chair: Leslie Howsam
• Valerie Holman ‘This Man is Reading’: E.L.T. in the Second World War
• Ann Steiner In peace with paper: English paperbacks in Sweden in the 1940s
• Paul Hjartarson and Kristine Smitka The "Egghead" Paperback, the Cold War, and Canadian Literature: The New Canadian Library Reprint Series and the Concept of Remediation

1e Print and Privilege

• Chair: Ian Gadd
• Patrick Ludolph The Licensing Pattern of Gilbert Mabbott
• Marie-Claude Felton Publisher and Seller of his own educational Books: The Battle of Luneau de Boisjermain (1732-1801) against the Parisian Booksellers’ Privileges
• Barbara Lauriat Countless Copies and Perpetual Copyrights: The Legal Privileges of British Universities

1f Publishing Sacred Texts

• Chair: Marija Dalbello
• Michael Paulus Archibald Alexander and the Use of Books: Theological Education and Print Culture in the Early Republic
• Dennis Landis Printing Sacred Texts: The first American Korans
• Liangyu Fu A Benefit to Intelligence or Another Gospel?: Textbook Publishing of Protestant Missionaries in China, 1877-1890

1g Re-Encounters: Politics, Practices and Problems within Contemporary Event-based Cultures of Reading in North America and the UK

• Chair: Joan Shelley Rubin
• DeNel Rehberg Sedo Close Encounters of a Mediated Kind: Rethinking Book Audience through ‘Richard & Judy’s Book Club’ and ‘Canada Reads.’
• Anouk Lang One Book, Whose Community? Encountering Others through Mass Reading Events
• Danielle Fuller Labours of Love: A Reader-Researcher’s True Story

10am-10.30am Coffee

10.30am-12pm Parallel Session 2

2a The Oxford Companion to the Book (OUP, 2010): Perspectives, Controversies, and Possibilities

• Chair: Richard Landon
• Panellists: Michael F. Suarez, S.J., Henry Woudhuysen, Joan Shelley Rubin, Claire Squires and Pamela Coote

2b Teaching Text Technologies

• Chair: François Dupuigrenet
• Panellists: Ilaria Andreoli, Gary Taylor, Wayne Wiegand

2c Publishing in the Southern Hemisphere

• Chair: Dr Peter D. McDonald
• Elizabeth Le Roux Fifty Years of Publishing at Unisa Press
• Francis Galloway A historical overview of publishing training in South Africa

2d Cultural Economy of Cross-media Practices in the Twentieth Century: some examples

• Chair: David Carter
• Alexis Weedon Creating audiences: what we can learn from sales figures and agreements
• Simone Murray The Novel Beyond the Book: Literary Prize-winners on Screen
• Daniel Allington, Kieran O'Halloran,and Joan Swann Setting 'reader response' in context: the case of the contemporary reading group

2e Constantijn Huygens’ Consolation for the eyes as a Prototype for a Postmodern Reading Console

• Chair: Paul van Capelleveen
• Jürgen Pieters Towards a virtual reading machine: the autopoesis of Constantijn Huygens’ Ooghentroost
• Christophe Van der Vorst Marginalia as subject machines in Constantijn Huygens’ Ooghentroost
• Lise Gosseye The marginal scientist. Constantijn Huygens’ Ooghentroost between humanism and New Science (paper to be presented in her absence)

2f Reading Communities in Scotland

• Chair: Alistair McCleery
• Avril Gray Bolshie Teenagers and Boring Books 1989-2007
• Linda Fleming Not so long ago, but faraway: Shetland readers remember
• David Finkelstein Reading Communities and Readers’ Marks in Public Library Books

12pm-1pm Lunch

12.10pm-12.55pm: Teaching Book History Special Interest Group

• Organisers: Leslie Howsam and Sydney Shep

1pm-2.30pm Parallel Session 3

3a Studies in the Economics of Publishing in the United States

• Chair: James Raven
• James Green Book Trade and Industrial Organization in Federal America
• Michael Winship Book Distribution in Late Nineteenth-Century America
• Daniel Raff The Book-of-the-Month Club: A Reconsideration

3b Change and Permanence: Authorship, Plagiarism, and Information Overload in Eighteenth-Century Encyclopedias

Panel sponsored by the Bibliographical Society of America

• Chair: Caroline Duroselle-Melish
• Clorinda Donato Censoring Knowledge Transfer in Eighteenth-Century Spain: The Inquisition and the Encyclopédie méthodique
• Judith Hawley Twisting and untwisting the same rope: Plagiarism and the Eighteenth-Century Encyclopedia
• Matthew Pethers A Vast Collection of Particular truths: Encyclopedic Knowledge and Information Overload in Post-Revolutionary American Print Culture

3c Private Libraries/Public Memorials

• Chair: John Barnard
• Matthew Yeo The Distribution and Reception of Reformation Theology at Chetham’s Library, 1655-1700
• John Orr Henry Adams’s Marginalia: Contested Reading and the Negotiation of Meaning
• Matthew Bradley The Trouble with Divine Learning: Establishing Pusey’s House and Gladstone’s Library

3d Networks of Influence in Twentieth-Century Publishing

• Chair: Jane Potter
• Sarah Pedersen Why women’s letters to newspapers were the Edwardian equivalent of blogging
• Gail Chester How Did His Mind Work?: Cyril Burt and Psychology Publishing

3e Nineteenth-Century Material Cultures

• Chair: Marija Dalbello
• Ellen Gruber Garvey The Pedagogy of the Periodical, the Primer, and the Scrapbook
• Casey Smith The Flood of Modern Bibliography: Library Anxiety in the 1890s
• Gautam Bhadra From 'Advertising' to 'Bigyapon': The History of Early Advertisements for the Printed Book in Bengal

3f Politics and Publishing

• Chair: Amadio Arboleda
• Nikki Hessell The Journalist’s Apprentice: Samuel Johnson and Charles Dickens at the Houses of Parliament
• Jane Aikin Commodious and Distinguished: Books, Politics, and the Founding of the United Nations
• Bertrum H. MacDonald, Peter G. Wells, and Ruth E. Cordes Who Reads and Uses Grey Literature? The Case of Publications of Two Intergovernmental Environmental Groups

3g Book History and Theory: Keywords

• Chair: Simone Murray
• Kate Eichhorn Tactics
• Archana Rampure Postcolonial
• Shafquat Towheed Reading
• Trysh Travis Political Economy

2.30pm-3pm Tea

3pm-4.30pm Plenary Panel

The History of Oxford University Press

• Simon Eliot, Ian Gadd, Amy Flanders, Atalanta Myerson, Dawn Nell

4.45pm Buses leave Oxford Brookes University for Oxford University Press

5.30pm-6.30pm SHARP AGM

6.30pm-8pm Reception

Sponsored by Oxford University Press

• To include an exhibition curated by OUP’s archivist, Martin Maw

Thursday 26 June 2008

8am-9am Breakfast for SHARP Liaisons

9am-10.30pm Parallel Session 4

4a Printing, Practice and Patronage

• Chair: Bob Patten
• Jim Nottingham 17th Century Book Publishing: The Craftsman Practice of Michael Burghers as Revealed by the Thomas Hearne Diaries.
• Michael F. Suarez, S.J. YOUR NAME HERE, my Lord: Plate Subscription and the Patronage of Engravings for Learned Books in England, 1654-1710
• Thomas D. Walker Private Libraries of the Enlightenment through the Eyes of Library Travelers

4b Books, Museums, Archives

• Chair: Angus Phillips
• Sarah Hughes Books and catalogues as paratextal elements to museum exhibitions
• Kirsten MacLeod Collectin’ with Van Vechten: Carl Van Vechten and America’s Cultural Archive Industry
• Rudi M.R. Venter The institutional role of literary museums / archives as source for book and publishing history in South Africa

4c Teaching and Text: Instructive Encounters in the Nineteenth Century

• Chair: Caroline Jackson-Houlston (Oxford Brookes)
• Susann Liebich Educating Adult Readers: The National Home Reading Union in Australasia, 1892-1898
• Heather Gaunt History and memory in the Tasmanian Public Library: the curious case of ‘The Hermit in Van Diemen’s Land’

4d Identity and Community in Nineteenth-Century North America

• Chair: Elizabeth Long
• Henrietta Rix Wood Teaching North Americans about Native Americans through the Text of The Indian Leader
• Lee McLaird The County History: Enduring Popular Scholarship
• Cynthia S. Hamilton Spreading the Word: The American Tract Society’s Appeal to a Mass Audience

4e Teaching and Text: Evidence from The Reading Experience Database, 1450-1945 (RED)

• Chair: David Finkelstein
• W.R. Owens Introduction and demonstration of The Reading Experience Database, c.1450-1945
• Rosalind Crone Teaching "bad men" to read good books: reading in the nineteenth-century prison
• Katie Halsey Something light to take my mind off the war: British attitudes towards reading matter during the Second World War

4f Constructing Identities

• Chair: Rachel Buxton (Oxford Brookes University)
• Dr Linda Gunn Scottish literary magazines and the Devolution debate 1979-1999
• Susan Pickford How universities shape the translation market: The case of Maghrebi literature
• Cristina Ivanovici The Brand versus Location: the Censored Marketing of Margaret Atwood’s Fiction in Romania in the 1990s

4g Digital Projects Demonstration Session (1)

• Organiser: Katherine Harris
• Troy J. Bassett At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901
• Isobel Grundy Orlando’s Digital Literary History: New Ways to Study Authors, Readers, and Publishing
• Giles Bergel, Kris McAbee, and Laura Miller English Broadside Ballad Archive
• Kenneth M. Price Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• James Wilson Demonstration of Intute

4h Cities and Books

• Chair: Kate Longworth
• Berry Dongelmans The city as a book historical entity
• Guy Lazure Collecting, Circulating, and Transmitting Knowledge : Libraries and Museums of Sixteenth-Century Seville
• Mary Ronan Creating a Library/Coalescing a Community

10.30am-11am Coffee

11am-12.30pm Parallel Session 5

5a Book History and the History Book: The Publication and Reception of History Books, 1938-1990

• Chair: Simon Eliot
• Matthew Beland Revolution in the Classroom: The Pedagogical Reception of Crane Brinton’s The Anatomy of Revolution
• Vernon Totanes Teodoro Agoncillo’s History of the Filipino People and the History of the Filipino History Book

5b Nation and Empire

• Chair: Leslie Howsam
• Giles Bergel Book History and the Traditional Ballad: The Wandering Jew’s Chronicle 1634-1830
• Thierry Rigogne The Book Trade in Early Modern France: New Approach, New Findings
• Marija Dalbello Circulating Dynastic Fictions in a Transnational Empire

5c Teaching and Text: Object Lessons

• Chair: John Barnard
• Susan Halpert Object Lessons: Teaching with Books and Manuscripts at Harvard
• Kris McAbee Where Old Meets New: The English Broadside Ballad Archive and the Early Modern Digital
• Roger Schonfeld Format Transitions and the Challenge of Preservation

5d Examinations and Divinations: Textbooks and Religious Texts in Imperial China

• Chair: F.J. Levy
• Hilde De Weerdt Para-Text and the Pedagogical Imperative: The Commercial Printing of Atlases and Anthologies in Imperial China
• Shih-shan Huang The Visual Culture of Temple Oracles in Medieval China
• Michela Bussotti Printing for education: a local case in late imperial China
• Lucille Chia Buddhist Imprints of the Ming Period—An Untapped Source for Book History

5e The Social Life of Printers

• Chair: W.R. Owens
• John Hinks Politics and print in an English provincial town, 1740-1850
• Sydney Shep ‘Signs of Progression’: Transplanting & translating book trade customs to the Antipodes
• Sarah Bromage Wayzgoose: annual trips and social activities in the print, paper and publishing industries in Scotland

5f A Right to Read in Segregated America: Race and the Public Library

• Chair: Ellen Gruber Garvey
• Christine Pawley Building ‘A reliable source of information . . . about the Negro’: Resisting Racism at the Chicago Public Library
• Cheryl Knott Malone A Teacher and Her Text: Eliza Atkins Gleason’s The Southern Negro and the Public Library

5g Digital Projects Demonstration Session (2)

• Organiser: Katherine Harris
• Emma Huber EEBO and ECCO TCP
• Míċeál Vaughan Simpson Center for the Humanities: Digital Humanities, Text, and Teaching
• Justin Tonra Thomas Moore Hypermedia Archive
• David Radcliffe Center for Applied Technologies in the Humanities
• Katherine D. Harris The Poetess Archive Database

12.30pm-2pm Lunch

including the SHARP Board of Directors' Lunch

2pm-3.30pm Parallel Session 6

6a Textual Communities

• Chair: Claire Squires
• Jenny Hartley Texts Behind Bars: what prisoners read in the nineteenth century
• Stefanie Lethbridge Cultural Memory in Teaching Anthologies of British Poetry
• Tannis Atkinson In the gap: Community publishing in adult literacy programs in Toronto 1980-2000

6b The Changing Nature of Intellectual Property: Regulation and Operation

• Chair: Linda Gunn
• David McCormack Intellectual Property: The History and Nature of International Regulation
• Melanie Ramdarshan Intellectual Property: Changing Perspectives from Small Countries
• Julia Buchanan Intellectual Property: Going Digital and the Effect on the IPR of Academic Authors

6c Literary Culture in the Modern Americas

• Chair: Jane Potter
• Claire Parfait Publishing African-American Historians in the 19th Century: The Case of William Wells Brown
• Jonathan Arnold Pen-pictured and kodaked out: Theodore Roosevelt’s The Rough Riders and public consumption of texts on the Spanish-American War of 1898
• Andrew Reynolds The Letters of ‘Letrados’: Production of the Latin American Modernista Chronicle

6d Teaching and Textbooks

• Chair: Simon Eliot
• Michael Hancher College English in India: The First Textbook
• Myra Tawfik For the Encouragement of Learning: Copyright and Schoolbooks in 19th century Lower Canada
• Penney Clark Unwholesome Monopoly: The Toronto Textbook Publisher Ring, 1883-1909

6e Publishing the New Science

• Chair: John Hinks
• Laura Miller Teaching Newton to the Ladies: English Language Translations of Algarotti
• William Kelly C17 and C18 medical and scientific publishing in Germany
• M.A. Katritzky 350 years of illustrated teaching texts: marketing, medicine and theatre in Johann Amos Comenius’s ‘Visible World’

6f The Business of Publishing and Shipping Academic Books in 16th Century Italy: Three Studies

• Chair: Ian Maclean
• Christian Coppens The Distribution and Bibliographical Manipulation of the Fasciculus medicinae
• Angela Nuovo Business Practice in the Circulation of law books between France and Italy in the early 16th Century: the Lyon-Trino-Venice route.
• Kevin Stevens Binding and Shipping Educational Texts: The Library of Catherine of Austria (1507-78), Queen of Portugal, and the Milan Connection (1540)

6g Young Readers

• Chair: Wayne Wiegand
• Kate McDowell Toward a History of Children as Readers in the United States, 1880-1930
• Carol Tilley Legitimizing Comics in the 1940s
• Gillian Thomas Coaching the New Caste: Publishing for British Child Readers in the "Lost Decade" (1945-1950)

to 5pm: Free time

5pm-6.30pm Reception at the Bodleian Library

Sponsored by the Oxford Centre for the Book

7pm Conference banquet at Magdalen College

Friday 27 June 2008

9am-10.30am Parallel Session 7

7a Is there a History of the Future of the Book?

• Chair: Sydney Shep
• Miha Kovac Is there a Link between the History of the Future of the Book and Publishing Education?
• Angus Phillips The history of the future of the book
• Rüdiger Wischenbart Ripping the Cover: How Digitization Has Changed What’s in the Book

7b Paratexts

• Chair: W.R. Owens
• Matthew Garrett Parody, Parts Publication, and the Model of an Early Mass Market: The Case of Salmagundi
• Jill Gage The Remarkable and Curious Adventures of Mirus Omnivagus: a Tale of 18th century Schoolboy Authorship
• Joseph Vogel 'Shifting Dispositions': Dave Eggers' Alternative Bookmaking Experiment in a Global Literary Marketplace

7c Unruly Ladies & Civilizing Media: Using Periodicals & Annuals to Educate Nineteenth-Century Women

• Chair: Sara Lodge
• Kathryn Ledbetter Teaching Women to Write: Editors of British Victorian Women’s Periodicals and the Civilizing Mission of Poetry
• Margaret Linley Toys of Literature and Learning Technologies: Literary Annuals, Education, and the Aesthetic Turn
• Katherine D. Harris Undoing the Good: The Uncivilizing Nature of Gothic Short Stories in Early Literary Annuals

7d The Economics of the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Book Trade

• Chair: Eleanor Shevlin
• Nancy Mace The Preston Copyright Records and the Market for Music in Late Eighteenth-Century England
• Johanna Archbold The business of periodicals: Commercial aspects of periodical publishing in Ireland, 1770-1830
• Ross Alloway The Sederunt Book and the Sequstration of Archibald Constable & Co.

7e Searching for Culture: Etiquette, Self-education and the Aspirant Classes

• Chair: Peter Hoare
• Toni Weller Polite information: Victorian etiquette books as alternative tools of learning
• Nicola Smith Librarians and the intellectual ministry: public librarians as public educators, 1890-1925
• Lauren Christos 19th Century Traveling Libraries: Educational Outreach to Diverse and Underserved Rural Populations in the United States

7f Knowledge Transfer in the Early Modern Period

• Chair: F.J. Levy
• Pierre Delsaerdt A Typographic Analysis of Christophe Plantin’s Dictionaries
• Aline Francoeur Re-writing the French-English Dictionary in 17th-Century England: The Pedagogical (Mis)Fortunes of Guy Miège
• Sarah Neville ‘Here bygnnyth a new mater’: Copying, Competition and Banckes Herball

10.30am-11am Coffee

11am-12.30pm Plenary Panel

Literary Prizes

• Chair: Claire Squires, Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies
• Panellists: Wendy Cooling (children's book consultant, prize judge and founder of Bookstart programme), James Hawes (author and Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Oxford Brookes), Boyd Tonkin (Literary Editor of the Independent and judge of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize), and Ion Trewin (Administrator of the Man Booker Prizes)

12.30pm-1.30pm Lunch

1.30pm-3pm Parallel Session 8

8a ProQuest panel: User-Generated Content and Scholarly Resources for the Humanities

• Chair: Ian Gadd
• Panelists: Patrick Leary, Edward Wilson and others

8b Teaching and Text: The Series

• Chair: Polly Fields
• Candida Rifkind Reading and Writing for Boys: Laurie York Erskine, Renfrew of the Mounted, and the Solebury Method
• Evelyn Ellerman Charles Granston Richards and the East African Literature Bureau
• Gordon B. Neavill From General Audience to Academic Market: The Modern Library Series, 1946-1960

8c The War on Error

• Chair: Bob Patten
• Robert Ritter OUP and the Creation of Authority in Print
• Alistair McCleery Provenance, Pirates and Proofreaders: The Curious Textual History of the 1934 Ulysses
• Steve Ball Professional interference: the rise — and fall? — of editorial intervention in publishing

8d Packaging and Repackaging Texts

• Chair: John Hinks
• Mary Fischer Nicolaus von Jeroschin: Authorship and Education in Fourteenth Century Prussia
• Simon Frost Unpacking Educational Metaphors: Rousseau’s Crusoe and the economic Robinson
• Kirsti Salmi-Niklander The Birds’ Counsel. The dialogue of Finnish students and peasant writers in manuscript and printed media in the 1850s

8e Looking Outside Ourselves: Literature for American Youth About Life Abroad, 1902-1951

• Chair: Wayne Wiegand
• Melanie Kimball Teaching American Children about Life in Other Lands: Early 20th Century Classroom Collections, 1902-1923
• Debra Mitts-Smith Learning About the World and About Ourselves: The Depiction of Other Peoples, Cultures, and Countries in Children’s Picture Books from 1920-1940
• Christine Jenkins International Harmony: friend or foe?: Documenting the U.S. Children’s Canon during World War II and the early Cold War, 1941-1951

8f Lost in Translation?: US Foreign-language Books for Hot and Cold Wars, 1940s-1960s

• Chair: Ellen Gruber Garvey
• John Hench Propaganda, American War Books, And The Dilemmas Of Translation, 1944-1946
• Erin A. Smith Translating/Exporting "The American Way": Religious Self-Help Literature And Cold-War Containment
• Amanda Laugesen The Creation Of A Global Modern Publishing Culture In The Cold War: Franklin Book Programs, Translation, And Modernization In The Developing World, 1952-1968 (paper to be read in her absence)

3pm-3.30pm Tea

3.30pm-5pm Parallel Session 9

9a Sociological Perspectives on the Study of Book Publishing Companies in the 19th and 20th Centuries

• Chair: Francis Galloway
• Kevin Absillis Pascale Casanova’s The World Republic of Letters and the Analysis of Centre-Periphery Relations in Literary Book Publishing
• Frank De Glas The Usability of Richard Peterson’s ‘Production of Culture’ Concept for the Study of Publishers’ Lists
• Petra Söderlund Jerome McGann’s Notion of ‘Bibliographical Codes’ Put to the Test
• Janneke Weijermars Siegfried Schmidt’s Concept of the Autonomy of the Literary System as an Analytic Tool

NB. The full texts of these papershave been published in advance at http://www.let.uu.nl/~Frank.deGlas/personal/PanelSHARP.htm

9b Gendering Print

• Chair: Simone Murray
• Troy J. Bassett ‘A Characteristic Product of the Present Era’: Gender and Celebrity in Helen C. Black’s Notable Women Authors of the Day (1893)
• Karen Nipps The Self-Education of Lydia Bailey, Last of the Widow Printers
• Michelle Smith The Women’s School for Citizenship: The Literary Marketplace, Canadian Women’s Magazines, and the Education of a Nation

9c Intercepted Letters in Early Modern England: Presumption, Portrayal, and Practice

• This panel has been cancelled as two of the speakers are unable to attend

9d Books and the Formation of Identity in Early Modern Europe

• Chair: James Wald
• Eric White Speculations on the Identity of a Strasbourg Rubricator, c. 1460-1475
• Amanda Dotseth The Bound Nobility Patent in 16th-Century Spain: Proof of Nobility, Symbol of Privilege
• Lisa Pon Printing the Procession: Giuliano Bezzi’s Fuoco Trionfante and the Identity of Early Modern Forlì (paper to be read in her absence)

9e Teaching and Text: Technology

• Chair: Sydney Shep
• Dallas Liddle The Text and the Turbojet: models of technological change and the history of the book
• Jana Bradley Events in the Lives of Books: A Model for Teaching and Studying the Movement of Books in Society in the Early 21st Century
• Kenneth Price Digital Scholarship, Economics, and the Canon

9f Anglophone Readers on the Move: Continental Europe in the Nineteenth Century

• Chair: Bob Patten
• Bill Bell Santa Croce with a Baedeker: English Readers and Cultural Encounter
• Barbara Schaff ‘Sound Information and Innocent Amusement’: John Murray’s Books on the Move
• Peter Hoare A Room with a View - and a Book: Some Aspects of Library Provision for English Residents and Visitors to Florence, 1815-1930

5pm-5.30pm Break

5.30pm-7pm Plenary panel

Fifty years since Febvre and Martin

• Chair: Professor John Barnard
• Panelists: Professor David McKitterick, Professor Ian Maclean, Dr Sydney Shep, Professor Kathryn Sutherland, Dr Peter McDonald

8.30-10.30pm Book History Pub Crawl

Must be booked through registration form

Saturday 28 June 2008

Optional events (these must be booked through the registration form)

• 9.30am-5.00pm: Cotswold Bus Tour
• 10.00am-11.00am: Oxford City Walking Tour
• 10.00am-11.30am Bodleian Library Printing Workshop 1
• 11.30am-1.00pm Bodleian Library Printing Workshop 2
• 10.30am-11.30am Bodleian Library Tour 1
• 11.30am-12.30pm Bodleian Library Tour 2