Book Encounters
1500 - 1750Corsham Court Centre, Bath Spa University
Friday 1 July 2011
Bath Spa University's newly formed Book, Text and Place (1500-1750) Research Centre is pleased to announce its inaugural conference, 'Book Encounters, 1500-1750'. In keeping with the Centre's focus on early modern literary culture, place, and the history of the book broadly defined, this conference explores a wide variety of encounters with the book: from different cultural and geographical sites of production, circulation and reception to various disciplines and periods within early modernity.
Conference fees:
£30 regular fee
£20 student fee (note: a conference subvention covering fees for students has been generously provided by The Bibliographical Society; the subvention will be distributed on a first come, first served basis; students interested in attending the conference should contact Chris Ivic c.ivic@bathspa.ac.uk)
Conference Programme
9.00 Registration (tea and coffee available)
9.30-10.30 Plenary I: Mark Towsey (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in History, Liverpool) Putting Ideas in their ‘Proper Places’: Commonplace Books and the Practice of Reading in Georgian Britain
10.30-11.30 Session 1 (Chair: Stephen Gregg)
Tessa Whitehouse (Queen Mary) Isaac Watts’s Philosophy Books: Textual Forms and Sites for Enquiry
Abigail Williams (Cambridge) Secrets and Swirls: The Material Difficulties of Jonathan Swift's Text
11.30 Break (tea and coffee available)
11.45-1.15 Session 2 (Chair: Chris Ivic)
Chris Ivic (Bath Spa) Print, Political Culture and Samuel Daniel's A Panegyrike Congratvlatorie to His Kings Maiestie
Joseph Marshall (Edinburgh University Library) Words and Workes: Reading the Writings of King James VI & I
Emma Smith (Hertford College) 'Such readers we wish him': Early Modern Readers of Shakespeare's Folio
1.15-2.15 Lunch (buffet provided)
2.15-3.45 Session 3 (Chair: Claire Drake)
Elizabeth Upper (Cambridge) Printing Colour in Early Modern German Book Illustrations: The Significance of Johann Grüninger’s Failed Experiments of 1517-1518
Tracey Hill (Bath Spa) Finding John Robinson: A Man and his Books
Helen Smith (York) Bodies of Knowledge: Print and Practice in Joseph Moxon’s Mechanicall Exercises
3.45 Break (tea and coffee available)
4.00-5.30 Session 4 (Chair: Tracey Hill)
Michael Gale (Southampton) Marketing a Musical Self-Tuition Manual in Early Seventeenth-Century England: Thomas Robinson's Schoole of Musicke (1603), Autodidactic Learning, and the Politics of the Early Modern Music Lesson
Elisabeth Giselbrecht (Cambridge) Crossing Boundaries:
The Printed Book and the Dissemination of Italian Music North of the Alps5.35–6.35 Plenary II: David Pearson (Director, Libraries, Archives & Guildhall Art Gallery)
The importance of Material Evidence for Understanding the Social Impact of Books8.00 Conference dinner (optional, extra charge)