CONFERENCE PROGRAM

THURSDAY, 14 JULY, Library of Congress

SHARP Executive Committee Meeting, Corcoran College of Art + Design 10:00 am - 2:00 pm Pre-Conference Activities Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition Broadsides, Corcoran College of Art + Design 11:00 am - 12 noon Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress Open House 11:00 am - 2:30 pm Folger Library Exhibition Tours Fame, Fortune and Theft: The First Shakespeare Folio 10:30 am - 11:30 am 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm The Cullman Library, The Smithsonian Art, and Nature: Natural-Science Illustration from the 1500s to 1800s 11:00 am - 12:00 noon 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm The Dibner Library, The Smithsonian 11:00 am - 12:00 noon 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm 4:00 pm Conference Registration, Lister Hill Foyer, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland

4:45 pm Conference Welcome, Lister Hill Auditorium

5:00 pm Keynote: Jonathan Topham,Why the History of Science Matters to Book History Senior Lecturer in the History of Science, University of Leeds
(Introduced by Dr. Jeffrey Reznick, Acting Chief of the History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine)

6:15 pm Reception, National Library of Medicine

FRIDAY, 15 JULY, Library of Congress

8:00 - 8:45 am Registration; Coffee, Tea, and Breakfast Snacks Mumford Foyer, 6th Floor, James Madison Memorial Building, Library of Congress

8:45 - 10:15 am Session 1

1A. Representing African Americans through Nineteenth-Century Visual Art and Print (Dining Room A, LM620) Chair: Claire Parfait, Universit Paris Radiclani Clytus, Tufts University, A Plain Attempt to Record Plain Facts for Plain People: Reading Rhetorical Temperance in James Presley Balls Splendid Mammoth Pictorial Tour Marcy Dinius, University of Delaware, Truth in Representation: Views of Liberia in Antebellum American Print and Visual Culture Ezra Greenspan, Southern Methodist University, Moveable Type: Type Specimen Books and Nineteenth-Century U.S. Print Culture. 1B. RED: An International Digital Network for the History of Reading (Mumford Room, LM649) Chair: Shafquat Towheed, Open University, UK Shafquat Towheed, Open University, UK, A Brief Introduction to the New UK Reading Experience Database Patrick Buckridge, Griffith University, Australia, The Australian Reading Experience Database: A Work in Progress Lou Duggan, Saint Marys University, Nova Scotia, The Canadian Reading Experience Database: Organization and Strategies for Building a National Research Source Sydney Shep, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Reads: The Great War and Trans-local Reading Cultures Katie Halsey, University of Stirling, The Reading Experience Database: A Response 1C. Not Censored! Publishing Loopholes in Hitlers Germany (West Dining Room, LM621) Chair: John Hench, American Antiquarian Society (retired) Ine van Linthout, Erasmushogeschool Brussel and Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pragmatic Calculations: Nazi Ideology vs. External Pressures in the German Book Market Michele K. Troy, University of Hartford, The Reich is Interested in this Enterprise: Why the Nazi Regime Tolerated the Albatross Press Jan-Pieter Barbian, Director, Duisburg Public Library, After the Book Burnings: What Made It Past the Censors in Hitlers Germany? 1D. Health and Science Publishing in the Twentieth Century, 1900-1950 (Classroom A/B, 6th floor) Loretta De Franceschi, University of Urbino, Scientific Books from the Beginning of 20th Century to the Great War: Italy Looking for Modernity Jane Potter, Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies, Oxford Brookes University, Advancing Medicine, Advancing Nation: Medical Textbooks and Health Care Manuals of the Great War Monique Dufour, Virginia Tech, When the Doctor Prescribes Books: Bibliotherapy and the Medicalization of Books and Reading in the United States, 1930-1940

1E. The Architecture of the Book: Layout & Book Design in the Southern Netherlands, 16th-18th Centuries (Pickford Theater, LM302) Chair: Daniel DeSimone, Curator, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress Krisof Selleslach, Plantin-Moretus Museum, Antwerp, Clever Capitals. The Use of Ornamental Initials by Antwerp Printers (1541-1600) Goran Proot, Universiteit Antwerpen, The Design of Opening Paragraphs in the Flemish HandPress Book, 16th-18th Century: Between Tradition and Evolution Maartje De Wilde, Universiteit Antwerpen, Bricks and Typographical Tricks. The Design of Secular Songbooks from the Southern Netherlands (16th-18th century) 1F. Cartoons and Comics (LM139) Chair: Larry Sullivan, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York Corinna Norrick, Gutenberg-Institute for Book Studies, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany, Media competition as the Subject of Cartoon Art in the German Trade Magazine Brsenblatt fr den Deutschen Buchhandel, 1975 to 2010 Padmini Ray Murray, Stirling Centre for International Publishing and Communication, University of Stirling, Webcomics vs. the World: Scott Pilgrim and the Future of Comics Publishing Carol Tilley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Where Science Meets Culture: Frederic Werthams Seduction of the Innocent and the Pathologization of Comic Book Readers 1G. The Nature of Print and the Promotion of Conservation (LM G45) Chair: Cheryl Knott Malone, University of Arizona Jennifer Corrinne Brown, Washington State University, Literary Angling in the Conservation Movement Gregory J. Dehler, Front Range Community College, Our Vanishing Wildlife: William Temple Hornaday and the Conservation of Science and Morality Cheryl Knott Malone, University of Arizona, Early Earth Day Ephemera 10:15 - 10:45 am Coffee Break

10:45 am - Noon Keynote: Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, From Divine Art to Printing Machine and Beyond Professor Emerita, University of Michigan
(Introduced by John Y. Cole, Director of the Center for the Book, Library of Congress)

Coolidge Auditorium, Ground Floor, Jefferson Building, Library of Congress

12 noon - 1:15 pm Lunch SHARP Board Meeting, European Division Conference Room, 2nd Floor (adjacent to LJ-249) Jefferson Building, Library of Congress

1:15 - 2:45 pm Session 2

2A. 19th-Century Print and African Americans (Dining Room A, LM620) Chair: Lee N. McLaird, Rare Books & Special Collections, Bowling Green State University Ronald J. and Mary Saracino Zboray, University of Pittsburgh, Publishing Freedom on the Most Glorious Day This Nation Has Yet Seen: Print Culture, New Years Day 1863, and the Emancipation Proclamation Teresa Goddu, Vanderbilt University, The Visual Culture of Antislavery Claire Parfait, Universit Paris, Early African American Historians: a Book History and Historiography Approach 2B. Covering the Book in the Literature Classroom (Mumford Room, LM649) Chair: Gabrielle Dean, Johns Hopkins University Stacy Erickson, Manchester College, Window Dressing and the (Re)Packaging of the Canon: Book Covers in Early Modern Literature Surveys Jennifer Nolan-Stinson, North Carolina State University, The Paperback Revolution and the American Literature Classroom Heidi L.M. Jacobs, Leddy Library, University of Windsor, What if Maria Susanna Cummins had Twitter?: Information Literacy, Literary History, Social Media and the Classroom 2C. Transforming the Printed Architectural Treatise (West Dining Room, LM621) Chair: Roger Gaskell, Roger Gaskell Rare Books Robert Fucci, Columbia University, Single-Sheet Architectural Engravings in SixteenthCentury Italy: Beyond the Text-Image Opposition Katherine Graham Isard, Columbia University, The Annotator as Editor: Vincenzo Scamozzis Copy of Sebastiano Serlios Architectural Books (1551) Carolyn Yerkes, Columbia University, Simon Gribelins Trait dArchitecture divis en trois parties 2D. New Work in Modern Books Series (Classroom A/B, 6th Floor) Chair: Gordon B. Neavill, Wayne State University Lise Jaillant, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Evolution and Degeneration as Modern Concerns: the Case of the Modern Library series, 1917-1936 Paul M. Wright, University of Massachusetts Press, Retired, Fermentation of Beer and Wine in the Harvard Classics? Isabelle Olivero, Bibliothque nationale de France, site: Bibliothque de lArsenal, Toward an International History of the Book Series 2E. Embodied Reading and Media Transition (Pickford Theater, LM302) Chair: Ezra Greenspan, Southern Methodist University Matthias Rothe, University of Minnesota, Suspending Absence The Reader and the Theater Visitor in 18th-Century Germany Karin Littau, University of Essex, Reading in the Age of Edison Gillian Silverman, University of Colorado Denver, Digital Reading and the End of the Deep Subject

2F. Paratext and Marketing: Commercial Considerations in Early Modern English Medical Texts (LM139) Chair: Carla Suhr, Research unit for Variation, Contacts, and Change in English (VARIENG), University of Helsinki Ville Marttila, Research Unit for Variation, Contacts, and Change in English (VARIENG), University of Helsinki, Figures of Knowledge: Textual Diagrams in Early Modern English Medical Writing Carla Suhr, Research Unit for Variation, Contacts, and Change in English (VARIENG), University of Helsinki, Cutting the Costs of Illustrations in Vernacular Medical Texts of Early Modern England Jukka Tyrkk, Research Unit for Variation, Contacts, and Change in English (VARIENG), University of Helsinki, Selling Culpeper: A Case Study into the Use of Title Pages in Seventeenth-Century Commercial Publishing 2G. Publishing History, Preachers and Readers (LM G45) Chair: Padmini Ray Murray, Stirling Centre for International Publishing and Communication, University of Stirling Abhijit Gupta, Jadavpur University, What Really Happened under a Tree Outside Delhi, May 1817 Matthew Hedstrom, University of Virginia, Publishing for Seekers: Eugene Exman and the Religion Department of Harper & Brothers Edmund C.G. King, Open University, Man of Science, Man of Religion: The Reading of a Medical Missionary in Uganda, 1896-1918. 2:45- 3:15 pm Coffee Break

3:15 - 4:45 pm Session 3

3A. Material Information: Pulling Apart and Reconfiguring Texts in the Proto-Digital & Digital Environments (Dining Room A, LM620) Chair: Ellen Gruber Garvey, New Jersey City University Ellen Gruber Garvey, New Jersey City University, Newspaper into Databases Marija Dalbello and Nathan Graham, Rutgers University, From Order to Configurability of Books Distant Reading of Foreign Titles in the Womans Library at the 1893 World Columbian Exposition Bonnie Mak, University of Illinois, From Facsimile to Fact in the Information Age 3B. The Nineteenth-Century Invention of the Scientific Journal (Mumford Room, LM649) Chair: Jonathan Topham, University of Leeds Iain Watts, Princeton University, Making Science Monthly: diffusing Philosophical knowledge in Nicholsons Journal and the Philosophical Magazine: 1797-1820. Alex Csiszar, Harvard University, Descent to Avernus: The Comptes Rendus and the Marketplace for Scientific News Melinda Baldwin, York University, Nature and Scientific Publishing in Britain, 1869-1900 3C. Fine Printing in the Late 19th Century (West Dining Room, LM621) Chair: Carol Armbruster, Library of Congress Matthew McLennan Young, Independent Scholar, The Shock of the Old: The Caxton Celebration of 1877 and the Revival of Fine Printing Gwendolyn Davies, University of New Brunswick, Canada, Divining Beautiful Books: Nova Scotian Women in New York in the Late 1890s Willa Silverman, The Pennsylvania State University, Miller of Dreams: Charles Meunier and the Book as Objet dart in fin-de-sicle France Commentary: Jean-Yves Mollier, Directeur de lEcole doctorale CRIT (Cultures, Regulations, Institutions, Territoires)

3D. Romantic Readers and Writers (Classroom A/B, 6th Floor) Chair: John Buchtel, Special Collections, Lauinger Library, Georgetown University Stephanie Eckroth, Texas Tech University, A Faithful Picture: Monthly Periodicals and Romantic Readers Ann Hawkins, Texas Tech University, The Romantic Book Market, Women Writers, and William Wards Index of Contemporary Reviews Irene Lyristakis, New York University, The Neurophysiology of Reading: The Female Brain and the Gothic Novel 3E. Visual Cultures of Science (I) (Pickford Theater, LM302) Chair: Josep Simon, Institut de Recherches Philosophiques, Universit de Paris Ouest Meghan Doherty, Mellon/ACLS Recent Doctoral Recipient Fellow, Resolving the Night Sky: Visual Astronomy and the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Simran Thadani, University of Pennsylvania, Figuring Bodies of Knowledge: The Science, and Art, of Sixteenth-Century Anatomical Illustration Tim Huisman, Museum Boerhaave, Dutch State Museum for the History of Science and Medicine, The Eye and the Hand. Artist-Anatomist Collaboration in Holland 1650-1750 3F. Text, Image, and Markets in the Early Modern Period (LM139) Chair: Elizabeth Frengel, The Society of the Cincinnati Sherri Bishop, Indiana University, The Title Page as Marketing Device in Venetian Madrigal Prints, 1538-1560 Millie Gimmel, University of Tennessee, When Pictures Mean Less than Words: Cognitive Disconnect in the Florentine Codex Stijn Van Rossem, University of Antwerp, The Struggle for Economic and Political Domination of the Almanac Market in the Southern Netherlands (Antwerp, 1626-1642) 3G. Childrens Books, Readers, and Libraries (LM G45) Chair: Corinna Norrick, Gutenberg-Institute for Book Studies, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz A. Robin Hoffman, University of Pittsburgh, Walter Crane, the Alphabet, and so-called childrens books Pat Pflieger, West Chester University, How Prehistoric Beasts Met Nineteenth-Century American Children Christine Jenkins and Mikki Smith, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois UrbanaChampaign, A Constant Sense of Rebuff to Building Together: Representations of Race in U.S. Childrens Library Collections, 1940-1949

5:15- 6:30 pm Keynote: Ian Gadd, Book History and the Organization of the Early Modern English Book Trade Senior Lecturer in English Literature, Bath Spa University
(Introduced by Michael Whitmore, Director of the Folger Shakespeare Library)

Folger Elizabethan Theater, Folger Shakespeare Library, 201 East Capitol Street, SE
6:30-7:30 pm Reception, Folger Great Hall

SATURDAY, 16 JULY, S. Dillon Ripley Center, Smithsonian Institution

8:00 - 8:30 am Registration; Coffee, Tea, and Breakfast Snacks, Ripley Center Foyer

8:30 -10:00 am Session 4

4A. Visual Cultures of Science (II) (Lecture Hall) Chair: Meghan Doherty, Mellon/ACLS Recent Doctoral Recipient Fellow Josep Simon, Institut de Recherches Philosophiques, Universit de Paris Ouest, The Work of Physics in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Visual Culture, Pedagogy and the Making of Knowledge (1802-1902) Ronald K. Smeltzer, Independent Scholar, Color Illustration in 19th-Century Chemistry Books: How and Why David Rudge, Western Michigan University, The Role of Visual Imagery in Textbook Portrayals of Industrial Melanism 4B. Text, Image, and Readers in the Digital Age (3035) Chair: Erik Delfino, Library of Congress Marianne Martens, Rutgers University, Interlacing Text, Image, and Interactivity: Multiplatform Books and Technologies of Production Lisa Maruca, Wayne State University, Writing Reading, or Notes on Annotation: From Commonplace to Kindle 4C. Early Modern Textual Dialogues and Controversies (3031) Chair: Sarah Werner, Folger Shakespeare Library Elaine Stroud, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Art or Science? Images and Words at the Center of a Controversy between Ren Descartes and Thomas Hobbes. Joseph Byrne, University of Maryland, The Dialogue of Poet and Bookseller in Erasmus Darwins The Loves of the Plants Alexandra Cook, University of Hong Kong, The Problem of Images in Post-Linnaean Botanical Texts 4D. Natural History at Home and Abroad (3113) Chair: Lee N. McLaird, Rare Books & Special Collections, Bowling Green State University Andrew Bednarski, The American Research Center in Egypt, Natural History, Art, and the Birth of Egyptology: Publishing Frdric Cailliauds Arts and Crafts Hester Blum, The Pennsylvania State University, Polar Imprints Sarah Strachan, Kings College, London, Safe Science in Sarah Bowdich Lees Elements of Natural History 4E. Transnational Circulation of 19th-Century Texts (3037) Chair: Jyrki Hakap, Academy of Finland Marie-Francoise Cachin, Universit Paris, Books from France at Charles Mudies Select Library in Victorian England Pieter Francois, Ghent University/Warwick University, The Transnational Origin of British Travel Guides on the Continent (1815-36) 4F. Catholic Books and Readers (3037a) Chair: John Buchtel, Special Collections, Lauinger Library, Georgetown University Lucy Razzall, University of Cambridge, Strippd out of their cases: Polemics of the Early Modern Naked Book Monica Mercado, University of Chicago, Home Reference, Home Religion: Catholic Almanacs and Family Reading in Nineteenth-Century America Jeffrey Zalar, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Today, I Read Something Very Interesting: Catholics and Scientific Books in Germany, 1871-1918 10:00 - 10:15 am Coffee Break

10:15 - 11:45 am Session 5

5A. Transnational Transactions, Literary Formations (Lecture Hall) Chair: Francis Galloway, University of Pretoria David Carter, University of Queensland, The Two Sided Triangle: Australian Books and American Publishers Gerald Groenewald, University of Johannesburg, Through literature a nation becomes great: Afrikaner Nationalism and the Reception of Afrikaans Books in South Africa, c. 1910-1940 Frank De Glas, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, The Literary Prize as an Instrument in the Material and Symbolic Production of Literature: The Case of the Prix Formentor and the Prix International des diteurs (1961-1967) 5B. Production Technologies and the Material Text (3035) Chair: Lisa Maruca, Wayne State University Nicholas Morris, SUNY-Buffalo, Modernism and Monotype: Collaboration in the Age of Mechanical Composition Daniel Selcer, Dusquesne University and Theresa Smith, Harvard University, The Compass and the Lens: Nicolaus Copernicus, Charles Eames, and the World in Facsimile Mary Murrell, University of California-Berkeley, Books as Data: The Two Cultures of the Digitized Book 5C. New World Expeditions (3031) Chair: Bertrum MacDonald, Dalhousie University Mariana Franozo, Unicamp, Brazil, The Curious Tale of the Historia Naturalis Brasiliae (1648), or Science and Ethnography in the Production of Knowledge about the New World Jeanne Gillespie, University of Southern Mississippi, The Science and Art of Empire: Mesoamerican Strategies for Survival in the New World Order in the Indigenous Grammars and the Relaciones geograficas Mary McDermott, West Chester University, The Art of Popular Science as Colonial Project in MidVictorian England 5D. The Art and Business of Music Publishing (3113) Chair: Nancy A. Mace, U.S. Naval Academy Michael Musgrave, The Julliard School, New York, The Publishing History of Brahmss Requiem Patricia Stroh, Beethoven Center, San Jose State University, A Music Publishers Diligence: A New Source in the Case of Beethovens Opus 2 Nancy A. Mace, U.S. Naval Academy, The Business of Music Selling and the Records of Robert Birchall 5E. Art and the Book in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries (3037) Chair: George Williams, University of South Carolina, Upstate Abel Debritto, Independent Scholar, Atomic Scribblings from a Maniac Age: the Artwork of Charles Bukowski Harry St. Ours, Montgomery College, The Future of the Book in Art and Design Education 5F. Books and Bodies (3037a) Chair: Marija Dalbello, Rutgers University Robert Cagna, West Virginia University, Vesalius and De humani corporis fabrica: A Millenniums Leap for Medicine Isabelle Clairhout, Ghent University, Taking up the Pen, not Forceps. Mrs. Jane Sharp and the Whole Art of Midwifery Discovered Sarah Bull, Simon Fraser University, A Purveyor of Garbage: Charles Carringtons Sexology and the Traffic in Obscenity 11:45 am - 1:15 pm Lunch

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1:15 - 2:45 pm Session 6

6A. Publishing and Politics (Lecture Hall) Chair: Sydney Shep, Victoria University of Wellington Caroline Davis, Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies, Oxford Brookes University, The Retreat from Liberal Publishing: Oxford University Press in South Africa under Apartheid. Greg Barnhisel, Duquesne University, Encounter Magazine and the Art and Science of AntiCommunism Lisa Kuitert, University of Amsterdam, Book and Politics Surrounding the Boer in South Africa 1899-1901 6B. The Role of Institutions in the Spread of Scientific Knowledge (3035) Chair: Nancy E. Gwinn, Smithsonian Institution Libraries Bertrum MacDonald, Dalhousie University, The Reach of Scientific Networks: The Smithsonian Institution and Diffusion of Scientific Information in Nineteenth-Century Canada Khyati Nagar, York University, Courtly Illustrations: Art and Science in Plants of the Coast of Coromandel Christine DArpa, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Applying Scientific Discovery to Agricultural Practice: The Annual Reports of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in the Late 19th Century 6C. Assembling Texts: The Materiality of Scientific Exchange in Enlightenment Britain (3031) Chair: Elizabeth Yale, Western Carolina University Elizabeth Yale, Western Carolina University, Finding Natures Readers: Publishing Natural History by Subscription in Late Seventeenth-Century Britain Kathryn James, Yale University, Mentiond in the Work: Subscription, Correspondence, and the Authorization of Natural History in Early Modern Britain Matthew D. Eddy, Durham University, The Price of Order: Student Manuscript Culture and the Exchange of Graphic Space 6D. Reconsiderations of Image and Illustration (3113) Chair: Daria Wingreen-Mason, Special Collections, Smithsonian Institution Libraries William Acres, Huron University College, Objet de Vertu: Eulers Image and the Circulation of Genius in Print, 1740-60 Philip Weimerskirch, Independent Scholar, Robert John Thorntons The Temple of Flora, His Transparencies and Their Use in Illustrating Lectures on Botany in England and America Gunilla Trnvall, Lund University, To be printed without contour: On the Transferring of Botanical Illustrations from Engraving to Lithography 6E. Reading, Social Capital, and Identity: Forming Identities in Boston, New Zealand and Cleveland (3037) Chair: Melanie A. Kimball, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College Katherine M. Wisser, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College, Libraries and Social Capital: The Boston Athenaeum and the Social Networks of 19th-Century Boston Ross Harvey, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College, (Re)Forming the Identity of an Indigenous Population: David Burn and The Maori Messenger Melanie A. Kimball, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College, They Wanted to Read Books by Lady Authors: Early 20th-Century Childrens Reading Clubs at the Cleveland Public Library

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6F. Cultural Spaces, Reading Communities, and Social Exchange (3037a) Chair: Eric Lindquist, University of Maryland Jyrki Hakap, Academy of Finland, Art, Music and Books - Book Stores as Cultural Spaces in the Early Nineteenth-Century Finland Ellen D. Gilbert, Independent Scholar, What They Read: Worcesters St. Wulstan Society 2:45 - 3:00 pm Coffee break

3:00 - 4:30 pm Session 7

7A. Encounters with Science: the Cultural Dynamics of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Medicine (STEM) (Lecture Hall) Chair: Eva Hemmungs Wirtn Eva Hemmungs Wirtn, Uppsala University, Introduction to Communicating Knowledge: Interdisciplinary, Intercultural and Intermedial Transactions of Knowledge Ulrika Kjellman, Uppsala University, The Use of Photography as a Scientific Tool in the Research Process of the Swedish Institute of Racial Biology Miha Kova, University of Slovenia, Books and Journals in Contemporary Academic Publishing Industries Bjrn Hammarfelt, Uppsala University, Visualizing Knowledge Flows: The Example of Walter Benjamins Illuminations Simon Eliot, Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, Summary and Futures: The Dynamics of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Medicine (STEM) 7B. Digital Projects Poster Session (3035) Chair: Katherine Harris, San Jose State University Troy Bassett, Indiana University-Purdue University, At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837-1901 Jessica DeSpain, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, Southern Illinois University Edwardsvilles Interdisciplinary Research and Informatics Scholarship (IRIS) Center Ian Gadd, Bath Spa University, Virtual Printing Press David Radcliffe, Director for the Center for Applied Technologies, Virginia Tech, Lord Byron and His Times George Williams, University of South Carolina, Upstate, BrailleSC.org: Different Ways of Reading in a Digital Environment Katherine Harris, San Jose State University, The Poetess Archive Database 7C. Illustration in 19th-Century England (3031) Chair: Daria Wingreen-Mason, Special Collections, Smithsonian Institution Libraries Elizabeth Starr, Westfield State University, Illustrating the Wonders of the Shore: Charles Kingsleys Glaucus Robert Patten, Rice University, From Wit to Manners: Contrasting Modes of Illustration and Changing Nineteenth-Century British Print Cultures 7D. Media Platforms: New Perspectives on the Public Lecture in 19th-Century America (3113) Chair: Paul Erickson, American Antiquarian Society Carolyn Eastman, University of Texas Austin, James Ogilvie, Celebrity, and the First Nationwide American Lecture Tour, 1808-1811 Thomas Wright, Oxford University, Oral Publication and Civic Rhetoric from Glasgow to Massachusetts Thomas Augst, New York University, The Temperance Lecture, Between Speech and Print

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7E. Case Studies in the 19th-Century Anglo-American Press (3037) Chair: Michelle Allen-Emerson, US Naval Academy Edward Jacobs, Old Dominion University, The Representation of Science in the Radical Periodical Press: the Case of Cleaves Weekly Police Gazette (1834-6) James Mussell, University of Birmingham, Science as Information in the Nineteenth-Century Press Lydia Schurman, Northern Virginia Community College, Emerita, The Art and Science of Manipulation: The Conquest by the American News Company of Nineteenth-Century Newsdealers and Publishers of Popular Print Culture 7F. InformationCollected, Clipped, and Ordered (3037a) Chair: Carol Armbruster, Library of Congress Cristina Pattuelli, School of Information and Library Science, Pratt Institute, The Warburg Library: Morphology of a Library as a Laboratory of the Mind Richard Popp, Louisiana State University, Reading as an Extractive Industry: Information Abundance and the Invention of the Clipping Bureau

5:00 - 6:30 pm Plenary: Faculty of Rare Book School, Educating the Next Generation
Naomi Nelson, Head of Special Collections, Duke University Mark Dimunation, Chief, Rare Book Division, Library of Congress John Bidwell, Astor Curator of Printed Books and Bindings, Morgan Library and Museum Michael F. Suarez, S.J., Director, Rare Book School, & Professor, University of Virginia
(Introduced by Leslie Overstreet, Curator of Natural History Rare Books, Smithsonian Instition Libraries)

Baird Auditorium, Natural History Museum 10th Street & Constitution Avenue, NW 8:00 pm Banquet: Anderson House, The Society of the Cincinnati, 2118 Massachusetts Avenue, NW

SUNDAY, 17 JULY, S. Dillon Ripley Center, Smithsonian Institution

8:30 am - 9:00 am Registration; Coffee, Tea, and breakfast snacks, Ripley Center Foyer

9:00 - 10:30 am Session 8

8A. Art, Design, and Publishing (Lecture Hall) Chair: Marija Dalbello, Rutgers University Dagmar Riedel, Center for Iranian Studies, Columbia University, From the Printing of Islamic Books to the Study of Islamic Art in Nineteenth-Century Vienna Sondra Miley Cooney, Kent State University, Emerita, Ancient Sea Margins: Robert Chambers as Scientist, Visual, and Verbal Artist Natalia Silberleib, Universidad de Tres de Febrero (Argentina) and Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina), Museum Publishing: The Art Catalogue as a Publishing Object and a Cultural Product

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8B. 20th-Century Scientific and Medical Publishing (3035) Chair: Bertrum MacDonald, Dalhousie University Francis Galloway, University of Pretoria, Publish or/and Perish: The Politics of Scientific Publishing in South Africa Jim Connor, Memorial University of Newfoundland, A Blueprint in Black-and-White, Yet Red All Over: The Editing and Publishing History of Rural Health and Medical Care (1948) Jennifer J. Connor, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Between Two Markets?: Medical Autobiography and Its Publishers 8C. Print and Manuscript in Colonial America and the Early Republic (3031) Chair: Eric Lindquist, University of Maryland Dennis C. Landis, John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, The New Colonial Pharmacopoeia Carla Mulford, The Pennsylvania State University, Benjamin Franklin and the Art of Science Mark Mattes, University of Iowa, The Art of History and the Figure of the Volume in the AdamsJefferson Letters 8D. Readings of the Renaissance Herbal: Art, Botany, and Poetry (3113) Chair: Karen Reeds, independent scholar (Princeton Research Forum and Visiting Scholar, University of Pennsylvania) Alain Touwaide, Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions, New Books, Ancient Manuscripts: The Fallacies of Renaissance Botanical Illustration Karen Reeds, independent scholar (Princeton Research Forum and Visiting Scholar, University of Pennsylvania), Leaves between the Leaves: The Herbal as Herbarium Leah Knight, Brock University (St. Catharines, Ontario), Intertextual Mowers, or How Andrew Marvell Read Gerards Herbal 8E. Case Studies in Publishing I (3037) Chair: Pat Pflieger, West Chester University Deidre Johnson, West Chester University, Planting Douglass Farm: The Role of Literary Mentors, Family, and Fictionalized Autobiography in the Creation and Promotion of a 19th-Century Childrens Book Courtney Winegar, West Chester University, Lydia Sigourneys Art of the Gift Book: Paratext, Poetics and Women Readers Michelle Allen-Emerson, U.S. Naval Academy, The Adventures of the Literary Laborer in H. Rider Haggards Mr. Meesons Will 8F. Utopia, Fantasy, and Prophecy (3037a) Chair: Lise Jaillant, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Jenifer Gundry, Drew University, Print Culture in Utopia Sara Hines, University of Edinburgh, The Reception and Influence of Andrew Langs Blue Fairy Book (1889/1890) Erin A. Smith, University of Texas at Dallas, Late Great Planet Earth: A Tale of Two Books 10:30 - 10:45 am Coffee Break

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10:45 am - 12:15 pm Session 9

9A. Natural History as Natural Philosophy: The Ordering of Nature for Reading Publics (Lecture Hall) Chair: James Voelkel, The Chemical Heritage Foundation Peter Dear, Cornell University, Bacons Most Famous Book? Sylva sylvarum and Its Popularity in the Seventeenth Century Carin Berkowitz, The Chemical Heritage Foundation, Design and IllustrationAnatomy as Evidence of Natures Order in Charles Bells Natural Philosophy Daniel Lewis, The Huntington Library, Co-opting Darwin: The French Translation of the 1859 Edition of Origin of the Species 9B. Mathematics and Science in Early Modern Print (3035) Chair: Michael North, National Library of Medicine Franois Loget, Universit de Limoges, Printers and Algebraists in Mid-Sixteenth-Century France Amrita Dhar, University of Michigan, Micrographia and the Accommodation of Science to Text Nicole Howard, California State University East Bay and Eastern Oregon University, Dr. Wrens New and Compendious Way of Printing : Early Modern Scientists Enter the World of Print 9C. Play and Politics (3031) Chair: Donald Farren, Independent Scholar Aaron Trammell, Rutgers University, Playing with Letters and Landscapes: An Examination of Literacy in Early 19th-Century Print Ephemera Margaret Stetz, University of Delaware, The last of the Victorians: John S. Goodall and the Politics of the Artists Book as Childrens Book Manuela Mourao, Old Dominion University, Picture books for grown children: Text and Image in Literary Annuals 9D. Scientific Publishing and the Emergence of the New (3113) Chair: Dr. Lilla Vekerdy, Head, Special Collections, Smithsonian Institution Libraries Marie-Claude Felton, cole des Hautes tudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris) and Universit du Qubec Montral (Canada), Je ne suis pas fou : The Self-publishing Journey of Poorly Estimated Scientists in Paris during the Enlightenment Johanna Lilja, University of Tampere, An Indefatigable Botanist a Peer Review Case from the Nineteenth Century Susan Pickford, Universit Paris, Outsider Literature and the Emergence of Modern Bibliographical Practice 9E. New Techniques, New Frontiers in Book History (3037) Chair: Casey Smith, Corcoran College of Art + Design Michael Hancher, University of Minnesota, One and Three Arts Paul Van Capelleveen, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, National Library of the Netherlands and Museum Meermanno, The Art of the Reprint: How New Techniques Teach the Past a Lesson 12:15 - 1:45 pm Lunch Country Liaisons and North America Affiliate Societies meeting

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1:45-3:15 pm Session 10
10A. Science in Periodicals and Newspapers before Darwin (Lecture Hall) Chair: James Wald, Hampshire College A. Franklin Parks, Frostburg State University, Science and the Readership of Early English Newspapers MaryLu MacDonald, Independent Scholar, Before Darwin: Science in Periodicals. The British North American Experience Linda Connors, Drew University, Emerita, Before Darwin: Science in Early Nineteenth-Century British Periodicals. 10B. Struggle for Survival: Art, Science, and Politics in Childrens Books about Evolution, Endangered Predators, and Sex (3035) Chair: Kate McDowell, University of Illinois Kate McDowell, University of Illinois, The Art of Evolution: Images of Geological Time in Science Books for Children, 1865-1956 Debra Mitts-Smith, University of Illinois and Dominican University, The Art and Science of Three North American Apex Predators: Image and Text and the Construction of Scientific Information about Grizzlies, Wolves, and Mountain Lions in Nonfiction for Children Loretta Gaffney, University of Illinois, Excess Access: Challenges to Sex and Sexuality in Childrens and YA Books 10C. Translating Alice in Wonderland: Making Sense from Nonsense (3031) Chair: Elizabeth Frengel, Manager of Reader Services, The Society of the Cincinnati Clare Imholtz, Independent Scholar, Alice in Many Tongues August Imholtz, Independent Scholar, Alice Goes to Russia Catherine Parisian, University of North Carolina-Pembroke, Alice in Shorthand: A Stenographers Primer 10D. Print and Visual Culture of the Paris Academy of Sciences (3113) Chair: Robin E. Rider, University of Wisconsin-Madison Anita Guerrini, Oregon State University, The Histoire des animaux and the early publication projects of the Paris Academy of Sciences Florence C. Hsia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, How to Publish an Early Modern Scientific Expedition Robin E. Rider, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Visual Communication Strategies in Early Modern Mathematics: Publications of the Paris Academy of Sciences 10E. Studies in the 18th-Century Book Trade (3037) Chair: Nancy A. Mace, U.S. Naval Academy Julia Rudolph, North Carolina State University, Legal and Scientific Culture in 18th-Century England: Enlightened Approaches towards the Profusion and Diffusion of Texts Patricia Gael, The Pennsylvania State University, Anonymous Publication in London, 1740-1749 10F. Case Studies in Publishing II (3037a) Chair: Erin A. Smith, University of Texas at Dallas Jessica Linker, University of Connecticut-Storrs, Almira Lincoln Phelpss Caroline Westerley: The Book as a Vehicle for American Approaches to Science Jennifer Burek Pierce, University of Iowa, No More Optical Delusions: Science in the Works of Oliver Optic Barbara Brannon, Texas Tech University Press, Ben Dixon MacNeill and The Hatterasman: A Perfect Storm of North Carolina Publishing

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3:15-3:30 pm Coffee Break

4:00 - 5:30 pm Plenary: Digital Technology

Matthew Kirschenbaum, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), University of Maryland, College Park Brian Geiger, Director of University of California Riversides Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research (CBSR), and Ben Pauley, Eastern Connecticut State University, Early Modern Books Metadata Simon Burrow and Mark Curran, University of Leeds, French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe Baird Auditorium, Natural History Museum 10th Street & Constitution Avenue, NW

5:30 - 6:30 pm Annual General Meeting and Conference Closing Remarks

Baird Auditorium, Natural History Museum 10th Street & Constitution Avenue, NW

Post-Conference Activity 7:30 pm African American Literary Walking Tour and Toast

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