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 (Western University – London)
“A Book is Being Cataloged”
Paul Dilley (University of Iowa)
“Cultural and Textual Exchanges: The Manuscript Across Pre-Modern Eurasia”
Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa (Occidental College)
“Decentering Himalayan Buddhist Book History: The Influence of Location and Peripherality in the Creation of Innovations in Book Technology”
Birgit Brander Rasmussen (Binghamton University)
“From History of the Book to History of the Awikighan: A Native American Studies Approach to Comparative Book History”
See the conference website at http://rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017/ for more information about the conference.
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