December 2004 Conference Schedule
December 3: Conceptual Issues--McCosh 50
Chair: Nigel Smith (Princeton)
4:30-6:30Robert Darnton (Princeton): Welcoming Remarks
Quentin Skinner (Cambridge) & Robert Darnton:
"Intellectual History and Book History, Bifurcation or Convergence?"
Peter Burke (Cambridge): "Translation as Reading, Reading as Translation"
Roger Chartier (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris):
"What is a Book?"
"What is a Book?"
John Pocock (Johns Hopkins): Comments
General Discussion
6:45-7:45:
Reception (East Pyne Hall)
December 4: A New Look at the Early-Modern Book--McCosh 10
Morning Session, Chair: Peter Burke
9:00-11:15:
Jacob Soll (Rutgers, Camden):
"Publishing The Prince: A Book History of Machiavelli in France."
"Publishing The Prince: A Book History of Machiavelli in France."
Deborah Harkness (California, Davis):
"Edward Barlow's Books: Collecting and Circulating Scientific, Medical, and Technical Books in
Elizabethan London"
"Edward Barlow's Books: Collecting and Circulating Scientific, Medical, and Technical Books in
Elizabethan London"
11:00-11:15: Coffee break
11:15-12:15:
Jeff Collins (Queens, Ontario):
"Silencing Thomas Hobbes: the Presbyterians and their Printers"
"Silencing Thomas Hobbes: the Presbyterians and their Printers"
12:15-1:00: Lunch--East Pyne
Afternoon Session, Chair: Jonathan Rose (Drew)
1:00-3:45:
Paula McDowell (Rutgers, New Brunswick):
"Print Culture, Popular Oralities, and the Idea of Oral Tradition in Eighteenth-Century England"
Adrian Johns (Chicago):
"Grub Street Pirates and the Plausibility of Print"
Paula McDowell (Rutgers, New Brunswick):
"Print Culture, Popular Oralities, and the Idea of Oral Tradition in Eighteenth-Century England"
Adrian Johns (Chicago):
"Grub Street Pirates and the Plausibility of Print"
Donald Kelley (Rutgers, New Brunswick): Comments
General Discussion
December 5: Piracy and Publishing--McCormick 106
Chair: Raymond Birn (Oregon)
9:00-11:00:
Adrian Johns: "Irish Pirates and the English Market"
Robert Darnton: "The Science of Piracy"
11:00-11:15: Coffee Break
11:15-12:30:
Reinhard Wittmann (Munich): "Viennese and South German Pirates and the German Market"
Jacob Soll: Comments
12:30-1:30: Lunch
1:30-2:30:
Peter Stallybrass (Penn): General Comments and General Discussion