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The Perils of Print Culture

The Trinity Long Room Hub Building, Fellows’ Square, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
Friday 10 - Sunday 12 September 2010.

All plenary sessions take place in the Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre on the second floor of the building. When there are parallel sessions, the ‘A’ session takes place in the Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre, and the ‘B’ session takes place in the seminar room on the second floor.

PROGRAMME

FRIDAY 10 SEPTEMBER

9.00 – 10.00 Registration and Coffee in Trinity Long Room Hub Building, Fellows’ Square, Trinity College Dublin.

10.00 – 10.30 Session 1: Welcome and Introduction

Dr Jason McElligott and Dr Eve Patten

10.30 – 12.00 Session 2: Medieval and Renaissance Print Cultures

Professor John Thompson (Queen’s University, Belfast) ‘The Perils of Print Culture in Late Medieval English Manuscript Study’.

Professor Andrew Hughes (University of Toronto) ‘Page layout and preservation of plates in some early printed British Breviaries’.

Mr Matthew Salisbury (Worcester College, Oxford) ‘Early printed books and

the modern resources that describe them: the case of the Hereford Breviary,

1505’.

CHAIR: Professor John Scattergood (School of English, TCD)

12.30 – 2.00 Lunch

2.00 -3.30 Session 3: ‘Book History Sans Frontiers’

Professor David Finkelstein (Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh) ‘Printers on the Move: A Transnational Approach to Book Trade Research’.

Professor James Raven (University of Essex) ‘The Perils of Nationalism in Book History’.

CHAIR: Professor Nicholas Grene (School of English, TCD)

3.30 – 4.00 Tea

4.00 – 5.30 Session 4: Questions of Practice

Professor Leslie Howsam (Windsor, Ontario) ‘The Practice of Book and

Print Culture: Sources, Methods, Readings’.

CHAIR: Dr Ian Gadd (Bath Spa University, UK)

6.30 Wine reception at The Clarence Hotel, Wellington Quay.

7.30 Conference dinner at The Clarence Hotel.

SATURDAY 11 SEPTEMBER

9.30 – 11.00 Session 5: Print and Social Change

Ms Sarah Crider Arndt (Trinity College Dublin) ‘William St Clair and

Copyright in Ireland before 1800’.

Dr Georgina Abreu (University of Minho, Portugal) ‘Print Culture and

Regency Radicalism’

Ms Carol Maddock (National Library of Ireland) ‘By Tooke or by Crooke?

Mary Crooke, de facto King's Printer in Ireland, 1670-1685’.

CHAIR: Professor David Dickson (School of History and

Humanities, TCD)

11.00 – 11.30 Coffee and Tea

11.30 – 1.30 Session 6A: Print and the Public

Dr Kathleen Lynch (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC) ‘How does the fixity of print become a problem for religious identity?’

Ms Annette Walton (Linacre College, Oxford) ‘The Thomas Marshall

Collection of English Civil War Printed Ephemera’.

Professor Ann Cline Kelly (Howard University, Washington DC) ‘Initial

Anxieties about the Perils of Print Culture in England Circa 1700: The Fable

as Case Study’.

CHAIR: Professor John Thompson (Queen’s University, Belfast)

Session 6B: Fixity and Movement

Dr Freya Cox Jensen (Merton College, Oxford) ‘“Pretious treasures made

cheap”? The real cost of reading Roman history in early modern England’.

Dr Eamon Darcy (Trinity College Dublin) ‘The 1641 rebellion and

contemporary print culture’.

Dr Ariel Hessayon (Goldsmiths, University of London) ‘The publication of continental European writings during the English Revolution, 1641–1660’.

CHAIR: Professor Raymond Gillespie (NUI, Maynooth)

1.30 – 2.30 Lunch

2.30 – 4.00 Session 7: The Eighteenth Century

Dr Toby Barnard (Hertford College, Oxford) ‘The impact of print in Ireland,

1680-1800: sceptical reflections’.

Dr Elizabeth Edwards (University of Wales) ‘Iolo Morganwg and the

Perils of Print Culture’.

Ms Helen J Williams (University of Northumbria) ‘“The Book Will Sell”:

Tristram Shandy and Grub Street’.

CHAIR: Dr Darryl Jones (School of English, TCD)

4.00 – 4.30 Coffee and Tea

4.30 – 6.00 Session 8: Serials and News

Dr Cristina Neagu (Christ Church, Oxford) ‘The “Lesser” Dürer? Broadsheets

and the Newsreel Effect’.

Dr Elizabeth Tilley (NUI, Galway) ‘Picturing the Truth: Illustration in Nineteenth-Century Irish Serials’.

Ms Anna Luker Gilding (King’s College London) ‘From “fair forms” to “withered leaves”: understanding 1830s American women’s periodicals through time’.

CHAIR: Professor Nicholas Allen (NUI, Galway)

6.00 – 6.30 Coffee and Tea

6.30 – 7.30 Session 9: Theory and Practice

William St Clair (Institute of English Studies, University of London)

‘The Perils of “Book History’”.

CHAIR: Dr Jason McElligott (Trinity Long Room Hub)

7.30 Wine reception and book previews

SUNDAY 12 SEPTEMBER

9.30 - 11.00 Session 10: The Post-Modern Book

Dr Maria Leticia del Toro Garcia (University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) ‘Susan Howe and the Difficulty of Printing Art in Printed Form’.

Ms Margery Masterson (University of Bristol) ‘From Victim to Scoundrel: Tracking One Ernest Scott Jervis through the Victorian Periodicals in the Digitized Age’.

Ms Neassa Doherty (NUI, Galway) ‘The digitization of Eighteenth-Century Irish Reproduction Engravings’.

CHAIR: Dr Eve Patten (School of English, TCD)

11.00 - 11.30 Coffee

11.30 – 1.00 Session 11A: Neither Marginal nor Peripheral? Irish and Welsh Print-Cultures.

Dr Deirdre Nic Mhathúna (St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra) ‘The

Transmission of Piaras Feiritéar’s poetry: exploring the interface between

manuscript and print cultures’.

Dr Marc Caball (Humanities Institute of Ireland, UCD) ‘Cultures of

Communication in Early-Modern Gaelic Ireland: An Appraisal’

Dr Marion Löffler (National Library of Wales) ‘Radical Welsh Texts in Serial

Publications in Wales and England in the 1790s’

CHAIR: Dr Anne Markey (School of English, TCD)

Session 11B: Shifting Contexts

Dr Rebecca Bullard (Merton College, Oxford) ‘The gathered text, 1650-1750’.

Dr James Loxley (University of Edinburgh) ‘Orpheus Dismembered: The

Work of John Cleveland and the Divisions of Academic Labour’.

Mr Mark Williams (Hertford College, Oxford) ‘Lacking Ware, withal: Finding

Sir James Ware among the many incarnations of his histories’.

CHAIR: Dr Jason McElligott (Trinity Long Room Hub)

1.00 – 2.00 Lunch

2.00 – 3.30 Session 12A: Print Culture in Twentieth-Century Ireland

Professor Andrew Kuhn (Boston College, Massachusetts) ‘Pirates, Cowboys,

and Gypsies: The Luxurious Low Culture of the Cuala Broadside’.

Ms Deirdre Brady (University of Limerick) ‘Private Presses and the Perils of

Publishing: Women and Print Culture in Mid-Twentieth Century Ireland’

Professor Nicholas Allen (NUI, Galway) ‘Jack Yeats, Print and Image’.

CHAIR: Professor W.J. McCormack (Former Keeper, Edward

Worth Library 1733, Dublin)

Session 12B: Bibliographical Futures

Dr Philip John (University of St Andrews) ‘The Universal Short Title

Catalogue: The Development of a Universal Catalogue of Sixteenth-Century

Material’.

Dr Richard Cunningham (INKE Project, Canada) ‘Do Bibliographical

Codes Translate to Computer Code?’

CHAIR: Dr Rebecca Bullard (Merton College, Oxford)

3.30 – 4.00 Tea

4.00 – 5.15 Session 13: Closing the Book?

Professor Michael Suarez (University of Virginia) ‘The Future for Books in a Digital Age’.

CHAIR: Professor Jane Ohlmeyer (School of History and Humanities, TCD)

5.15 – 5.25 Conference Close

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