Schedule

All events are free and open to the public. Because space is limited, we request that participants and visitors register in advance for any or all of the events they’re interested to join.

A printable PDF of the program is also available. Follow along on Twitter with the hashtag #tbhs17.

Thursday, April 20

6:00p Keynote lecture

“Making Negro Literature: Literary Workspaces at the Margins of Print Culture,” by Dr. Elizabeth McHenry. The keynote doubles as a free public lecture at the National Humanities Center. Registration is requested.

7:15p Conference opening reception.

Immediately following the keynote and complimentary with registration. Generously sponsored by the NHC.

Friday, April 21

Sessions “Objects of Curiosity, Community, and Concern”

In the first three sessions, presenters offer lightning talks based around specific bibliographic objects of interest. Group discussion follows each. Held in the National Humanities Center’s conference spaces.

9:30a Registration and welcome
Main Conference Room, 1st floor

10:00a-11:00a Session #1

1A: Medieval and early modern objects
West Conference Room, 2nd floor
Moderator: Tim Stinson

  • “Early modern letter writing.” Dylan Thompson, Dept of English and Comp Lit, UNC
  • “Woodcuts in George Whitney’s A Choice of Emblems.” Lanier Walker, Dept of English and Comp Lit, UNC
  • “Medieval Fantasies: Visualizing the monster in medieval Hebrew manuscripts.” Julie Mell, Dept of History, NC State
  • “Chaucer’s printed poems (including those he didn’t write).” Jessica Hines, Dept of English, Duke Univ
  • “Books and fragments from the Venetian Renaissance.” Lyle Humphrey, North Carolina Museum of Art

1B: Science, seeds, spirits, sex
Main Conference Room, 1st floor
Moderator: Paul Fyfe

  • “The Greek Majuscule of Janus Lascaris.” Taylor Johnson, SILS, UNC
  • “Chymical Characters in Nicolas Lemery’s A Course of Chymistry (1698).” Ashley Werlinich, Dept of English and Comp Lit, UNC
  • “The sacred and profane: Dialogi quos Pomiliones vocat, Varium poema and Janus (1533).” Ann Mullaney, PhD, translator
  • “Pliny’s Natural History and 1500 years of annotation.” Clare Woods, Classical Studies, Duke Univ
  • “John Dee’s Conversations with Angels: Scrying and Conjuring as Textual Production.” Erik Maloney, Dept of English and Comp Lit, UNC

11:00a-12:00p Session #2

2A: Transcoding and making new media
Main Conference Room, 1st floor
Moderator: Paul Fyfe

  • “Artists’ web browsers.” Colin Post, SILS, UNC
  • “Dance, embodiment, and transcoding.” Michaela Dwyer, Dept of American Studies, UNC
  • “I bought a printshop.” Michael Simons, Devil’s Pi Press
  • “The Portal Book: A Model for Publisher-Library Collaboration.” Sylvia Miller, Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke Univ

2B: Pamphlets, periodicals, and publishing
West Conference Room, 2nd floor
Moderator: Tim Stinson

  • “Producing Space for Female Readers in The Cornhill Magazine and Victoria Magazine.” Liz Shand, Dept of English and Comp Lit, UNC
  • “Gerrard Winstanley’s pamphlets (1648-52) and the English Civil War.” Craig Mariconti, Dept of English and Comp Lit, UNC
  • “‘Scotus Americanus’ and Printing as an Agent of Transatlantic History.” Anna McFadyen, Dept of English, NC State
  • “Charlotte Smith and the landscape of women’s poetry publishing.” Robyn Diaz, Dept of English, NC State

12:00-1:00p Lunch for conference participants at the NHC. Sponsored by Rare Book School.

1:00p-2:00p Session #3

3A: Communities of media
West Conference Room, 2nd floor
Moderator: Paul Fyfe

  • “Sensational ephemera: the 1833 trial of Ephraim K. Avery.” Jessica Janecki, Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke Univ
  • “From Arabic Theatre to American Academics: Cold War Concerns, Communities of Practice, and the Curious Medium of Microform.” Kate Wilson, Hunter College & Fordham University; Middle Eastern Studies, Graduate Center/CUNY
  • “The surprising history of the John Frederick Foard scrapbook (1847-1899).” Sarah Carrier, Wilson Special Collections Library, UNC
  • “Books as Symbols in Renaissance Art.” B. Williams Ellertson, BASIRA Project

3B: Curious collections
Main Conference Room, 1st floor
Moderator: Tim Stinson

  • “C19th prize bindings, prize plates, and prize inscriptions.” Grant Glass, Dept of English and Comp Lit, UNC
  • “The Vernacular Golden Legend in Manuscript and Incunable Waste at Duke and UNC.” Janice Hansen, Wilson Special Collections Library, UNC
  • “Thomas Hardy’s wrappers.” Jan Paris, Wilson Special Collections Library, UNC
  • “Mysteries of the Seasons: 17th century copperplate engravings.” Rachel Ingold, Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke Univ
  • “Making Jonson: A Compiled Second Folio.” Morgan Souza, Dept of English and Comp Lit, UNC

2:00-3:00p Panel: Book History Among the Disciplines
Main Conference Room, 1st floor

Panelists representing our broad community–including academics, librarians, and artists–offer position statements on the value and reach of book history.

  • Celeste-Marie Bernier, Professor of Black Studies, Chair in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, Fellow at the National Humanities Center
  • Brian Allen, letterpress printer and printmaker
  • Whitney Trettien, Assistant Professor of English, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
  • Eli Brown, Head of Special Collections Research Center, NCSU Libraries

5:00p Letterpress studio visit

Participants and guests may sign-up to visit Brian Allen’s letterpress studio (812 B North Mangum St in Durham). After the group event, the studio will be open for drop-in visits anytime between 4:30p-9:00p.

6:00ish Pizza and art social

Immediately following the studio visit. Symposium friends and participants are invited to an informal social outing in Durham for pay-as-you-go dinner, drink, and Third Friday Durham (6-9p). Meet at Pompieri Pizza for drop-in dinner (102 City Hall Plaza).

Saturday, April 22

Several regional artists and libraries will open their studios for visits and hands-on demonstrations. These events are free though registration is requested.

10:00a Wilson Special Collections Library, UNC

A guided exhibition of artists’ books and rare materials from UNC’s Sloan Art Library and the Wilson Library. Find info here on visitor parking including lots which should be unrestricted on the weekends.

12:00p Studio tour at Horse and Buggy Press

Dave Wofford takes guests through his Horse and Buggy Press, a letterpress printing studio and its gallery featuring craft and art in a variety of media. Find free parking on both sides of the building and on the street (1116 Broad St in Durham).

2:00p Studio tour at Bonded Llama papermaking

Ann Marie Kennedy opens her papermaking studio in Raleigh (1505 Capital Boulevard). Located in the Bonded Warehouse complex (along with Eastern Hot Rod, Furniture Source and Revival Antiques), Bonded Llama is a stand-alone building at the end of the gravel lot with blue awnings. Enter through the door with the white llama icon.

3:30p Guided tour of selections from the “Glory of Venice” exhibit

Dr. Lyle Humphrey, the GSK Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow at the North Carolina Museum of Art, will take guests to see rare incunabula and paintings from the Venetian Renaissance currently at the North Carolina Museum of Art (2110 Blue Ridge Road).