A Conference at the Folger Shakespeare Library
9-11 March 2006
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Thursday, 9 March
6:00 – 7:00 p.m. Registration
7:00 p.m. Welcome
Kathleen Lynch , The Folger Institute
“Divine Art/Infernal Machine:
Attitudes towards Printing in Early Modern Europe”
Elizabeth Eisenstein, History, University of Michigan, emerita
Reception to follow
Friday, 10 March
8:30 – 9:00 a.m. Registration
9:00 a.m. Welcome
Anthony Grafton , History, Princeton University
9:15 – 10:15 a.m. “What Did Gutenberg Invent? Computer Analysis of Typefonts”
Paul Needham , Scheide Librarian, Princeton University, and
Blaise Aguera y Arcas , Seattle, WA
Chair: Marija Dalbello , Library and Information Sciences,
Rutgers University
10:15 – 10:45 a.m. Coffee Break
10:45 a.m. –12:00 The Humanist Book
Chair: James Hankins , History, Harvard University
“Between Poetry and Politics: Humanist Pundits and the
Renaissance Press”
Margaret Meserve , History, University of Notre Dame
“Later Adventures of the Humanist Book: Art as Part of the Rhetoric ”
Bette Talvacchia , Art History, University of Connecticut
12:00 – 2:00 p.m. Lunch (provided)
2:00 – 3:15 p.m. Printing and the Wider World
Chair: David Sacks , History, Reed College
“Representing the Book and Readers in Colonial Spanish
American Art”
Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra , History, University of Texas at
Austin
“Re-assessing Impact: From Travel Writing to Books about
New Worlds”
Joan-Pau Rubiés , History, London School of Economics
3:15 – 3:45 p.m. Tea Break
3:45 – 5:00 p.m. Authorship
Chair: Joseph Loewenstein, English, Washington University
“Priestly Playwrights and Authorial Authority: The Moral
Formation of Authorship in Early Modern Spain”
Hilaire Kallendorf , Hispanic Studies, Texas A&M
“Trial Publication, ‘à l'essai,’ and the Rise of the Gentleman
Amateur”
George Hoffmann , Romance Languages and Literatures,
University of Michigan
Saturday, 11 March
9:00-9:15 a.m. Welcome
Ann Blair, History, Harvard University
9:15-10:15 “Vernacular Books at the Frankfurt Book Fair, 1570-
1625”
Ian Maclean, Renaissance Studies, All Souls, Oxford
Chair: Jan-Dirk Mueller , German, Comparative, and
Scandinavian Studies, Ludwig Maximilians Universität
10:15-10:45 Coffee break
10:45-12:00 Libraries
Chair: Germaine Warkentin, English, University of Toronto,
emeritus
“Libraries and the Production of
Knowledge”
Paul Nelles , History, Carleton University
“Discovering the Early Modern Library in Late Renaissance Italy:
A Historical Prospero and his Books”
Warren Boutcher, English and Drama, Queen Mary University
of London
12:00-1:15 Lunch
1:15-2:30 p.m. Publishers and Publishing
Chair: Adrian Johns, History, University of Chicago
"The Prince and his Publishers: The Politics and Practice
of Printing in Sixteenth-Century Florence"
Antonio Ricci, Comparative Literature, York University
“ ‘I publish, therefore I perish...or do I’:
Cartesian Agitations on Print and Publication”
Abby Zanger , History, Tufts University
2:30-3:00 p.m. Tea Break
3:00-4:15 p.m. The Republic of Letters
Chair: Mordechai Feingold, History of Science, CalTech
“From Plants to Print: Botany, Networks, and the Republic of Letters"
Anne Goldgar , History, King’s College London
“Politics, the ‘Public Sphere,’ and the Seventeenth-Century
Republic of Letters”
Noel Malcolm , All Souls, Oxford
4:30-5:30 p.m. Wrap-Up
Peter Stallybrass, English, University of Pennsylvania
5:30 – 7:00 p.m. Closing Reception
