FYI. For those interested, within the area or within driving distance.
John
Books Without a Future?
A Symposium
Duke University
Friday, February 22, 2008
1:00 - 6:00 PM
Rare Book Room, Perkins Library, Duke University
1:00 - 1:15 PM
Welcome
Srinivas Aravamudan, Director, Franklin Humanities Institute
1:15 - 2:45 PM
Panel I - Recycling Books
Knowing by *.pdf
Lisa Gitelman, Associate Professor of Media Studies, Catholic University
Page, Paper Waste: Book Recycling in Victorian London
Leah Price, Harvard College Professor of English, Harvard University
2:45 - 3:15 PM
Break
3:15 - 4:45 PM
Panel II - (Re)Constructing Books
Revising Thomasin von Zerclaere's "Welsche Gast":
Image, Emotion, and the Creation of a Book
Kathryn Starkey, Associate Professor of Germanic
Languages and Literatures & Director of the
Program in Medieval and Early Modern Studies,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
The Human Knowledge Project (Part 2): How to
Build the Best Possible Global Digital Library
Siva Vaidhyanathan, Associate Professor of Media
Studies and Law, University of Virginia
4:45 - 5:00 PM
Break
5:00 - 6:00 PM
Roger Chartier, Respondent - Roundtable with Panelists to Follow
Chair of Writings and Cultures in Modern Europe,
Collège de France; Professor of History, École
des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales; Annenberg
Visiting Professor of History, University of
Pennsylvania
Roger Chartier will deliver the 2008 A. W. Mellon
/ John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute
Distinguished Lecture on Thursday, February 21,
5:30 PM, at the Nasher Museum auditorium.
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John J. Taormina
Director, Visual Resources Center
Dept. of Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Duke University
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