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Tuesday 11 July 2006

Location: Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague

9.30-16.00: Registration open

Pre-conference programme (workshops/informal meetings)

10.00-12.30: Masterclass, opening and session 1

13.00-15.00: Ph-D student network. Organiser: Adriaan van der Weel

13.00-17.00: SHARP Executive Committee meeting (incl. lunch)

13.30-16.00: Masterclass, session 2

16.00-18.00: National Histories of the Book.
Organiser: Marieke van Delft
Chair: Ian Willison

19.30: Official Opening
Location: Diligentia Theatre, The Hague

Welcome addresses: Berry Dongelmans (University of Leiden) and Martin Bossenbroek (Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague) 
Keynote speaker: Prof. dr. Robert Darnton(Princeton University), Slander: the Art and Politics of Vilification, Paris and London, 1770-1800
Location: Diligentia Theatre, The Hague

Wednesday 12 July 2006

Location: Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague

08.00-08.30: Registration

08.30-10.00: Sessions
01A - Theory and methodology (Aula) abstracts
Chair: McCleery, Alistair (Napier University, Scotland)
Winter, Michael F. (University of California, USA), Theorizing the History of the Book: The Relevance of Rationalization
Murray, Simone (Monash University, Australia), Publishing Studies: Critically Mapping Research in Search of a Discipline
Lundblad, Kristina (Institute for the History of the Book, Sweden), Codex Simulations

01B - Encounters in the East: The West and Print Culture in China (Room A) abstracts
Chair: MacDonald, Mary Lu (Independent researcher)
Nesta, Frederick (Lingnan University, Hong Kong), Before Gutenberg: A Thousand Years of Printing in China
Bussotti, Michela (Ecole Française d'Extrême-orient, Beijing, China), Marginal notes on Western prints in China, Chinese types in Europe
Zhiqiang, Zhang  (Institute of Publishing Science, Nanjing University, China), The Missionaries and the Modernization of Chinese Publishing in Late Imperial China

01C - English Seventeenth-Century Political Pamphlets (Room BC) abstracts
Chair: Bowers, Toni (University of Pennsylvania) 
Bregman, Alvan (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA), Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732): The Collector as Reader
Mann, Alastair J. (University of Stirling, Scotland), James VII and II: The Advice of the first Jacobite
Lindquist, Eric N. (University of Maryland, USA), King James’s Basilikon Doron and Its Readers

01D - Gender and the World of Books in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Room S) abstracts
Chair: Carr, Stephen L. (University of Pittsburgh)
Schrunk Ericksen, Janet (University of Minnesota, Morris, USA), Anglo-Saxon Books and Female Readers in 16th-Century England
Lyons, Tara (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA), Early Authorial Awareness: Joan Brome and the Lyly Plays
Taylor, Nancy (The Evergreen State College, USA), Editing the Letters of Lydia DuGard

01E - The Book in Eastern Europe (Auditorium National Archives) abstracts
Chair: Smejkalova, Jirina (University of Lincoln, UK)
Landis, Dennis C.  (Brown University, USA), Early Americana in Eastern Europe
Dreimane, Jana (National Library of Latvia), Censorship of Foreign Literature in Libraries of Latvia During the Years of the Second Soviet Occupation (1944-196o)
Dular, Anja (National Museum Library, Slovenia), Enlightenment and Freemasonry. Book Trade Connections between Eastern and Western European Countries

10.00-10.30: Coffee

10.30-12.00: Sessions
02A - Concepts in Research (Aula) abstracts
Chair: Meerkerk, Edwin van (Nijmegen University)
Ellerman, Evelyn (Athabasca University, Canada), Relating Theory to Practice in Colonial Book Culture
Black, Fiona A. (Dalhousie University School of Info Management, Canada), Geographies of the Book Revisited: Frameworks for Analyses
Kallendorf, Craig W. (Texas A&M University, USA), Virgil in Print: Production, Distribution, Consumption, Power


02B - Japanese Print Culture as a Lens to Understanding Japan-US Relations, 1919-1952 (Room A) abstracts
Chair: Kornicki, Peter (Cambridge University)
Atsuhiko, Wada (Shinshu University, Japan), Acquiring books from Occupied Japan: Examining Collection Building Efforts of North American University Libraries, 1945-1952
Wertheimer, Andrew (University of Hawaï at Manoa, USA), Japanese Language Reading in America's Concentration Camps, 1942-1946: Reflections on Reading from "How to Raise Goats" to Dostoevsky's "The Idiot" in Five Bunko
Asato, Noriko (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA), Washington's Japanese Reader and the Shaping of Japanese American Identity, 1919-1927

02C - Women as Editors, Writers, Scholars 17th-21st Century (Room BC) abstracts
Chair: Hurley, Ann (Wagner College, New York City, USA)
Hurley, Ann (Wagner College, New York City, USA), The Challenge of Editing Without an Author in Working with Two Plays by Elizabeth Polwhele
Jonathan Gibson (University of Birmingham, UK; co-autor: Gillian Wright), Early Modern Women in Manuscript: Editors, Publishers, and their Complaints
Goodblatt, Chanita (Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel), Engendering the Canon of Early Modern England: Percy Simpson and Evelyn M. Simpson

02D - Emblem Books: Text and Image (panel sponsored by the BSA) (Room S) abstracts
Chair: Laird, Michael (Michael Laird Rare Books)
Harris, Katherine D. (San Jose State University, USA), Continuing the Relationship: Literary Annuals as Nineteenth-Century Emblematic Forms
Vaeck, Marc van (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium), Emblematic Versatility as a Strategy of Self-representation: Poirters' Emblematic Verses in the Dutch Version of the Imago Primi Saeculi Societatis Jesu (Antwerp 1640)
Brafman, David (Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, USA), Alchemical Atalanta and Hermetic Hippomenes: The Esoteric Emblems of Michael Maier

02E - Topographies of the Book (Auditorium National Archives) abstracts
Chair: Wheatcroft, Andrew  (Centre for Publishing Studies, Stirling, UK)
Wögerbauer, Michael(Society for Book Research in Austria), Research on Book Culture 1750-1850 in the Czech Republic and the Topography of Book Trade in the Habsburg Monarchy
Frimmel, Johannes (University of Vienna, Austria), Topography of the Book Trade of the Habsburg Monarchy
Pavercsik, Ilona (Országos Széchényi Könyvtár, Budapest, Hungary), The Role of West-European Book Trade Relations and Hungarian Booktraders in the Development of an Important Hungarian Book Collection  

12.00-13.30: Lunch
12.15-13.15: SHARP Executive Committee and SHARP Board meeting (incl. lunch)

12.15-1315: Demonstration products Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Aula)
12.15-13.15: Demonstration Cerl databases (Room A)

13.30-15.00 Sessions

03A - National Identity and the Culture of Translation (Aula) abstracts
Chair: Cachin, Marie-Françoise (University of Paris)
Kalmthout, Ton van (Constantijn Huygens Instituut, The Hague), The National Subdivision and Internationalisation of the Literary Canon
Brinkman, Herman (Constantijn Huygens Instituut, The Hague), World Literature according to the Dutch. Absence and Manifestation of the Classic in Translation
Gielkens, Jan (Constantijn Huygens Instituut, The Hague), The Adventure of Ivanhoe and the Lost Translations

03B - Publishing between East and West (Room A)
Chair: Glas, Frank de (Utrecht University) abstracts 
Ouvry-Vial, Brigitte (Université Paris 7, France), When West Meets East, or How and Why Publishing Contemporary Eastern and Oriental Literature in France Today?
Jurilla, Patricia May B. (School of Oriental and African Studies, London, UK), The Serious Business of Comic Book Publishing in the Philippines
Wheatcroft, Andrew (Centre for Publishing Studies, UK), Orientalism: The Impact of the Image of the East on the West

03C - Authorship and Gender (Room BC) abstracts
Chair: Salmi-Niklander, Kirsti (University of Helsinki)
Thorne-Murphy, Leslee (Brigham Young Universit, USA), Revising Authorship: Transatlantic Editions of Charlotte M. Yonge’s Aunt Charlotte’s Stories of Bible History
Daskalova, Krassimira (St. Kliment Ohridski University, Sofia, Bulgaria) Bulgarian Women Authors, Publishers, and Readers (1878-1944)
Berrey, Sara (University of Minnesota, USA), Emily Dickinson’s Fascicle 36 Variant Sets: Death, Melancholy, and the Complicit Reader

03D - Propaganda (Room S) abstracts
Chair: Towheed, Shafquat (Institute of English Studies, London)
Potter, Jane (Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies, UK), A Record of Wartime Publishing: The Bookman, 1914-1918
Janacek, Pavel (Institute of Czech Literature, ASCR, Czech Republic), Excluding and Replacing “the Trash“: Mass Reading and the Literary Culture of Socialist Realism in Czechoslovakia of the 1950s
Hench, John B. (American Antiquarian Society, USA), `Uitgave Transatlantic' and Other American Books in The Netherlands, 1944-1946

03E - The Book in Canada (Auditorium National Archives)
Chair: Kelly, William (Napier University) abstracts
Golick, Greta (University of Toronto, Canada), Bind Your Own Business: Transactions of a Late Nineteenth-Century Ontario Bookbindery
Panofsky, Ruth (Ryerson University, Canada), "A Tough Role in a Tough Time": Hugh Kane's Presidency of the Macmillan Company of Canada

15.00-15.30: Tea/coffee
15.30-17.00: Sessions

04A - German Publishing in the Twentieth Century (Aula) abstracts
Chair: Wald, James (Hampshire College, USA)
McCleery, Alistair (Scottish Centre for the Book, Edinburgh), Tauchnitz and Albatross: English-language Publishing Under the Third Reich
Altenhein, Hans (Darmstadt University, Germany), 1968: Politics and the German book market
Füssel, Stephan (Gutenberg Universität, Mainz, Germany; paper will be read by Jasmin Adam), Book and Film during the Weimar Republic

04B - Cities and Countries (Room A) abstracts
Chair: Howsam, Leslie (University of Windsor, Canada)
Reimo, Tiiu (presenter of the paper and co-author: Signe Jantson; Tallinn University, Estonia), German Books on the Estonian Literary Marketplace in the Middle of the 19th Century
Gagnon, Isabelle (Sherbrooke University, Canada), From Poland to Quebec: Trading People, Trading Ideas, Trading Memories or Alice Parizeau's Critical Reception in Quebec
Towheed, Shafquat (Institute of English Studies, University of London, UK), Geneva vs. St. Petersburg: Two Concepts of Legal Ownership in Joseph Conrad’s Under Western Eyes (1911)

04C - The Early Modern Dutch Book (Room BC) abstracts
Chair: Goinga, Hannie van (Amsterdam University)
Salman, Jeroen (Utrecht University, The Netherlands), Itinerant Trade in Amsterdam in the 17th and 18th Centuries
Boterbloem, Kees (University of South Florida, USA), "Met een beschaafder Penne…”: The Context and Genesis of Jan Struys’s Perillous Voyages
Kelly, William Ashford (Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland), A Survey of pre-1801 Low Countries Imprints in Scottish Research Libraries: Results and Further Proposals  

04D - Translation and the Eighteenth-Century Novel (Room S) abstracts
Chair: Shevlin, Eleanor (West Chester University of Pennsylvania)
Wiggin, Bethany (University of Pennsylvania, USA), The Birth of the German Novel from the Esprit of the French: French Novels and German Translations, 1680-1720
Bowers, Toni (University of Pennsylvania, USA), Amatory Fiction's Phony Translations
McMurran, Mary Helen (University of Western Ontario, Canada), Eighteenth-Century Translators: The Business of Leisure

04E - Politics and Book Distribution (Auditorium National Archives) abstracts
Chair: Kallendorf, Craig (Texas A&M University)
Zakarauskiene, Zivile (Vilnius University, Lithuania), Peculiarities of the Lithuanian book trade
Brisson, Frédéric (Université de Sherbrooke, Canada), Dominating a Foreign Book Market through Control of Its Distribution Channel: The France-Quebec Case
Hakapää, Jyrki (University of Helsinki, Finland), Foreign or Domestic Preferences for Book Store’s Assortment? European Elite Culture and National Culture in the 19th-Century Book Distribution Networks

18.00-±20.00: Reception at the Peace Palace, Vredespaleis (The Hague) 

Thursday 13 July 2006

Location: University of Leiden

09.15-10.30: Registration desk open

09.30-10.15: Keynote Speech
Introduction by Paul Hoftijzer (University of Leiden)
Word of welcome by the Director of the Faculty of Arts (University of Leiden) 
Keynote speaker: Marika Keblusek(University of Amsterdam),  Selling Stuff. Merchants as Middlemen in the Early Modern World of Books

10.15-10.45: Coffee

10.45-12.15: Sessions

05A - Trading Ideas about Readers and Reading: A Roundtable on Recent Research and Innovative Methodologies (Room 003) abstracts
Chair: Hancher, Michael (University of Minnesota)
Alcorn Baron, Sabrina (University of Maryland College Park, USA), Reading Beyond the Margins
Shevlin, Eleanor (Kluge Fellow, Library of Congress, USA), Constructing Audience Histories after The Reading Nation
Hochman, Barbara (Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel), "Text-Based" or "Reader-Based": Reading Readers of the Past
Rubin, Joan Shelley (Professor of History, University of Rochester, USA), Culture, Commerce, and Convention: Approaches to the History of Poetry Reading in the United States 

05B - From Plantin to Manteau (1500-2000). The Flemish Book Trade in an International Perspective 1 (Room 005) abstracts
Chair: Delsaerdt, Pierre (Antwerp University Library, Belgium)
Bowen, Karen (Independent researcher, Belgium), The international market for Plantin’s trend-setting editions with engraved and etched illustrations
Rossem, Stijn van (Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium), The Bookshop of the Counter Reformation; The International Trade of Catholic publications in Antwerp (1585-1648)
Roegiers, Jan (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium), At the Origin of Revolution; Printing in Exile

05C - Fine Printing and Artist’s Books (Room 028) abstracts
Chair: Levy, Fred (University of Washington)
Janzen Kooistra, Lorraine (Ryerson University, Canada), The Dalziel Brothers' "Fine-Art Gift Book" and the Mass Production of Culture
Walkup, Kathleen (Mills College, USA), How to Read an Artist's Book
Smith, Jen (National University of Ireland, Galway), Trading Books – Trading Ideas: Artefact Books and the Edge of the Marketplace

05D - Manuscript and Print (Room 147) abstracts
Chair: Daskalova, Krassimira (University of Sofia)
Olafsson, David (University of St-Andrews, Scotland), Trading Ink for Milk. Manuscript-Exchange in 19th-Century Iceland
Salmi-Niklander, Kirsti (University of Helsinki, Finland), “The Enlightened and the Lightless" – Communication Networks of the Intellectuals and the Self-Educated in Late 19th Century Finland
Sabev, Orlin (Institute of Balkan Studies, Bulgaria), First Steps in the Formation of Ottoman Print Culture (1726-1746) 

05E - Aspects of Typography (Room 148) abstracts
Chair: Harris, Neil (University of Udine)
Voeste, Anja (University of Augsburg, Austria), Shrinking Letter Cases and the Uniformity of Spelling
Vizkelety-Ecsedy, Judit (Országos Széchényi Könyvtár, Hungary), Trading Printing Types. The Evidence of Imported Printing Material in Hungary in the 17th Century
McGuinne, Dermot (Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland), Irish Types in Europe  

05F - 18th Century English Publishing (Room 307) abstracts
Chair: Coppens, Chris (Antwerp University)
Parks, A. Franklin (Frostburg State University, USA), Envisioning an Audience: The Worcester Post-man and Developing Perceptions of Local Readership among Provincial Newspaper Publishers in Eighteenth Century Britain
Gadd, Ian (Bath Spa University, UK), Swift, Barber and Morphew: A Case-Study in Early 18th Century Author-Printer-Publisher Relations
Barchas, Janine (University of Texas, USA), Heroes or villains of Grubstreet: Edmund Curll and Samuel Richardson's shared business practices  

12.15-14.00: Lunch and SHARP Annual General Meeting (AGM)

14.00-15.30: Sessions

06A - Leiden Professors: Two Case Studies (Room 002) abstracts
Chair: Smolenaars, Marja (Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Den Haag)
Cazes, Helene (University of Victoria, Canada), Bonaventura Vulcanius and his Album Amicorum: The travels of Henri Estienne's Parodiae Morales
Beck-Varela, Laura (Max-Planck-Institut, Germany), Arnoldus Vinnius (1588-1657) at the Spanish Law Schools in the 18th. Century: a case study in the history of legal books

06B - The historical reader, sources and methods, 17th century – present day (Room 003) abstracts
Chair: Alloway, Ross (University of Edinburgh)
Blaak, Jeroen (Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands), Every Day Reading: Early Modern Diaries as Sources for Reader Research
Vries, Boudien de (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands), In pursuit of the nineteenth-century reader: sources and methods
Duyvendak, Lizet (Open University, The Netherlands), The 20th-Century Reader: Sources and Methods

06C - From Plantin to Manteau (1500-2000) Flemish Book Trade in an International Perspective 2 (Room 005) abstracts
Chair:  Simons, Ludo (Universiteit Antwerpen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
Absillis, Kevin (Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium), Angèle Manteau and the Indonesian connection; A remarkable story of Flemish book trade (1958-1962)
Stuyck, Jan (Universiteit Antwerpen & Archief en Museum voor het Vlaams Cultuurleven, Belgium), Keeping peace? The book trade in Flanders during the Second World War
Pauwels, Jan (Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Brussels, Belgium), Trading the book trade; The international spread of 19th-century book auction catalogues from the Southern Netherlands

06D - Private libraries and their catalogues in early modern Europe (Room 028) abstracts
Chair: Hoftijzer, Paul (University of Leiden)
Mandelbrote, Giles (British Libary, London, UK), The first printed library catalogue? A German doctor's library of the sixteenth century and its place in the history of the distribution of books by catalogue
Coppens, Christian (Centrale Bibliotheek Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium), The sale of the library of Charles de Croy, Brussels 1614
Nuovo, Angela (Università di Udin, Udine, Italy), Catalogus catalogorum: Gianvincenzo Pinelli’s collection of catalogues of private libraries in 16th-century Europe

06E - Deal of the Week: Negotiating the Value of Books in Contemporary Culture (Room 147) abstracts
Chair: Dongelmans, Berry (University of Leiden)
Fuller, Danielle (University of Birmingham, UK) & Rehberg Sedo, DeNel (Mount Saint Vincent University, USA), City Pride & Literary Prejudice: Reading & Re-Evaluating Jane Austen in Chicago
Steiner, Ann (Lund University, Sweden), What’s a Book Worth? – Competing Discourses of Value in the Book Trade
Squires, Claire (Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies, Brookes University, UK), Marketing Literature, Making Value: The Literary Marketplace and Crossover Fiction in the UK in the 1990s-2000s

06F - The House of Vizetelly & Co. and its French correspondents (1838-1853) (Room 148) abstracts
Chair: Capelleveen, Paul van (Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague)
Korey, Marie (Vizetelly Research Group, University of Toronto), The Comic Nursery Tales: A Glimpse into the Operations of Vizetelly & Co.
Landon, Richard (Vizetelly Research Group, University of Toronto), Bulk versus Quality: Archival Resources for Vizetelly & Co.
Speirs, Dorothy (Vizetelly Research Group, University of Toronto), Louis Français and Vizetelly & Co. : A Case Study
Portebois, Yannick (Vizetelly Research Group, University of Toronto), Anatomy of a Correspondence

06G - Incunabula (Room 307) abstracts
Chair: Landis, Dennis C. (John Carter Brown Library)
Harris, Neil (University of Udine, Italy), The Tardis, the Laundry List and the Survival of Books
Lilija, Limane (National Library of Latvia), Incunabula in the Libraries of Latvia, Its Publishers and Provenances
Wagner, Bettina (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich, Germany), Trading Incunabula. Evidence for the Acquisition of Printed Books in Germany in the First Century after Gutenberg

15.30-16.00: Tea/coffee

16.00-17.30: Sessions

07A - Individualising the Uses of Print (Room 002) abstracts
Chair: Gadd, Ian (Bath Spa University)
Gruber Garvey, Ellen (New Jersey City University, USA), Readers as Archivists: The Case of Scrapbooks
Smejkalova, Jirina (University of Lincoln, UK), Reading Research as a Form of Cold War Cultural Resistance
Fleming, Juliet (Cambridge University), Hannah Woolley decorates a room of her own  

07B - Intellectual lives? Rereading the Common Reader (Room 003) abstracts
Chair: Rose, Jonathan (Drew University, USA)
Bell, Bill (University of Edinburgh, Scotland), Reading Between the Lines: Literature on the Western Front 1914-1918
Colclough, Stephen (University of Wales – Bangor), Re-thinking the Reading Nation
Price, Leah (Harvard University, USA), 'Materiality' and the History of  Reading  

07C - European Book Culture around 1500 (Room 005) abstracts
Chair: Glas, Frank de (Utrecht University)
Hayton, Darin (Haverford College, USA), The Fortunes of Martin Bylica
Mak, Bonnie (University of British Columbia, Canada), Recollecting the Books of Matthias Corvinus
Panzuto, Josie (University of Montreal, Canada), Translated and Borrowed Images: Wynkyn de Worde's Woodcuts in Robert Copland's Helyas, Knight of the Swan

07D - The Book Displaced: Organization and Access to Scientific and Technical Information in Europe during the 20th Century (Room 028) abstracts
Chair: Black, Fiona (Dalhousie University, Canada)
Boyd Rayward, W. (University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, USA), The Rise of the Document: Frits Donker Duyvis and the management of information
Black, Alistair (Leeds Metropolitan University, UK), Books Eclipsed: The Company Library and Information Bureau and the Emergence of an Information Profession in Britain before 1960
Niles Maack, Mary (University of California, Los Angeles, USA), Entering the Reading Room by the Back Door: Maysie Florence Webb and the Reorganization of the British Museum Library  

07E - 19th-Century Printing and Publishing (Room 147)
Chair: Patten, Robert (Rice University) abstracts
Szir, Sandra M. (University of Buenos Aires), Technology, Culture and Graphic Practices. Printing Industry Journal in Buenos Aires, 1900
Eliot, Simon (School of Advanced Study, The University of London, UK), The Three-Volume Novel Myth and Mudie's Circulating Library

07F - combined with 06F

07G - Publishing Great Authors (Room 307) abstracts
Chair: Weel, Adriaan van der (University of Leiden)
Feely, Catherine (University of Manchester, UK), “What Marx Really Meant”: Editing Marx for the 'Layman' in Britain, c.1880-1939
Bautz, Annika (Keele University, UK), Post-War Scott: East and West German Receptions of Walter Scott’s Novels (1949-1990)
Greven, Elsbeth (Boom Publishers, Amsterdam; University of Leiden), Freud publishing in The Netherlands with regard to international initiatives   

17.45-18.30: Keynote Speech (Room 011)
Introduction by Paul Hoftijzer (University of Leiden)
 Keynote speaker: Peter Kornicki, Professor of Japanese History and Bibliography (Faculty of Oriental Studies, Cambridge, UK), Beyond the reach of the European book: East Asia and the world of the Chinese book. (Sponsored by the Dutch Book-historical Society; Room 011)

18.30-±20.00: Reception at Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden, with visit to the Rembrandt exhibition 

Friday 14 July 2006

Location: Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague

08.30-16.15: Information desk (Room D)

08.45-10.15: Sessions

08A - Trading Ideas: Emerging Cross Media Practices in Early 20th Century Britain (Aula) abstracts
Chair: Murray, Simone (Monash University)
Weedon, Alexis (University of Luton, UK), Earning Celebrity: Elinor Glyn as a Writer 
Barnett, Vincent L. (University of Luton, UK), “Making it” in Hollywood: Elinor Glyn as Novelist, Movie-maker, Glamour Icon and Businesswoman
Hammond, Mary (Open University, UK), When is a Book Not a Book? Literary Adaptations and the Problem of Methodology

08B - Early Modern French Publishing (Room A) abstracts
Chair: Hoftijzer, Paul (University of Leiden) 
Courtney, Cecil Patrick (Christ's College, Cambridge, UK), A Case Study: Montesquieu's Temple de Gnide
Varry, Dominique (ENSSIB, Lyon and EPHE, Paris), Using False Dutch Imprints in the Early Modern French Book Trade 

08C - Science and Education (Room BC) abstracts
Chair: Alistair Black (Leeds Metropolitan University)
Connor, Jennifer J,  (Memorial University, Canada) Co-author and presenter: MacDonald, Bertrum Dalhousie University, Canada), Good Sense, Good Science, and Good English: Canadian Scientists as Popular Book Authors in the Victorian Period
Miley Cooney, Sondra (Kent State University, USA), Trading and Transforming: The Travels of the 19th-Century Popular Encyclopaedia from Germany to America and Great Britain
Shefrin, Jill (University of Toronto, Canada), “Prints for Infant Schools”: The Print Trades and the Educational Market in Britain as Reflected in the Early Years of the Darton Firms (1787-1840)

08D - Publishing Modes: Reprint Series and Magazines (Room S) abstracts
Chair: Cachin, Marie-Françoise (University of Paris)
Armbruster, Carol (Library of Congress, Washington, USA), Translations in American Book Series from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to 1914: A Look at the International Circulation of European Authors
Troy, Michele K. (Hillyer College, University of Hartford, USA), The Albatross Press: English Editions in 1930s Europe
Roger Osborne (Australian Studies Centre), Australian Magazine Culture in the 1920s

08E - The Transformation of Iconic Images in Children's Literature: From Medieval Europe to Victorian England to Post World War II America (Auditorium National Archives) abstracts
Chair: Panofsky, Ruth (Ryerson University)
Mitts-Smith, Debra (University of Illinois, Champaign, USA), Taming the Wolf of Gubbio: A Medieval Miracle in a Post-Modern World
Kimball, Melanie A.  (University at Buffalo, USA), Alice’s Adventures In the New World: A Comparison of American and British Illustrators of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 1901-1908
Jenkins, Christine (University of Illinois,  Urbana-Champaign, USA), A Tale of Two Phoenixes

10.15-10.45: Coffee

10.45-12.15: Sessions

09A - 20th Century Mass Publication (Aula) abstracts
Chair: Squires, Claire (Oxford Brookes University)
Olivero, Isabelle (Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris), The Past and Present of Classic Pocketbook Editions in France
Dijk, van, Nel (Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands), The Bestseller System in Comparative Research
Wild, Jonathan (University of Edinburgh, Scotland), Writing for Profit: Michael Joseph, the “Middlebrow” and the Interwar New Writing Public

09B - Early Modern Publishers (Room A) abstracts
Chair: Emblidge, David (Emerson University)
Vliet, Rietje van (Independent researcher), Marc-Michel Rey and His Knowledge Brokers. The Position of Booksellers in the Republic of Letters
Cucic, Vesna (Dubrovacke Knjiznice, Croatia), Trading and Distribution Network of the First Printer in Dubrovnik, Carlo Antonio Occhi
Meeus, Hubert (Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium), Zacharias Heyns, The First “Marchand-Libraire” in Amsterdam

09C - Exploitation of fame. The increasing visibility of authors in the course of the 19th century (Room BC) abstracts
Chair: Boterbloem, Kees (University of Southern Florida)
Kuitert, Lisa (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands), The writer’s portrait. Fame and visibility at the end of the nineteenth century
Huisman, Marijke (Erasmus Universiteit, Rotterdam, The Netherlands), Selling the self: Autobiographical authors in the 19th century
Jongenelen, Ton (Independent scholar), Infamous authors. The perspective of the anonymous hack-writer in the 18th century 

09D - Shaping Cultural Discourses: Publishers, Youth Culture, and Scholarly Communication (Room S) abstracts
Chair: Connors, Linda (Drew University)
Werner, Meike G. (Vanderbilt University, USA), Competing Modernities: Avantgarde, Youth Culture, and the Role of Publishers
Hübinger, Gangolf (Europa-University Viadrina, Frankfurt, Germany),  Social-Science Avantgardes. The “Archive for Social Science and Social Politics” (1904-1933) in the J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Publishing House
Rectanus, Mark W. (Iowa State University, USA), Back to the Future: Scholarly Presses, Youth Culture, and the Information Society

12.15-14.15: Lunch

12.45-13.45: Demonstrations products Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Aula)
12.45-13.45: Demonstration Cerl databases (Room A)

14.15-15.45: Sessions


10A - Transatlantic Exchanges: Literacy Textbooks in the 19th-century U.S. (Aula) abstracts
Chair: Garvey, Ellen (New Jersey City University)
Ferguson Carr, Jean (University of Pittsburgh, USA), German Education, Catholic Culture, and 19th-century U.S. Elocutionary Reader
Schultz, Lucille M. (University of Cincinnati, USA), The Pestalozzi-Mayo-Frost Connection: “Say it, no ideas but in things”
Carr, Stephen L. (University of Pittsburgh, USA), Constructing American Literature in Nineteenth Century U.S. Textbooks

10B - Diaries and Readers (Room A) abstracts
Chair: Potter, Jane (Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies, UK)
Knott Malone, Cheryl (University of Arizona, USA), First-Person Accounts of Libraries: An Analysis of Electronic Full-Text Women's Diaries
Thomas, Gillian (Saint Mary's University, Canada), Worlds Apart: Two Victorian Women as Readers of Natural History  
Benatti, Francesca (National University of Ireland, Galway), Reading Networks in Ireland: The Nation, 1842-6  

10C - Modernism and the Book (Room BC) abstracts
Chair: Walkup, Kathleen (Mills College)
Bergel, Giles (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) Modernism's Ragged Edges: The Chapbook Revival in Poetry Publishing 1880-1930
Menzies-Pike, Catriona (University of Sydney, Australia), “A Moveable Feast”: Modernism, Robert McAlmon, and the Contact Collection of Contemporary Writers (1925)
Emblidge, David (Emerson College, USA), A Double Dose of Shakespeare: The Two Shakespeare & Co. Bookstores in Paris 

10D - The Book in the 18th Century (Room S) abstracts
Chair: Salman, Jeroen (Utrecht University)
Ramsey, Colin T. (Appalachian State University, USA), An Account of the New Invented Pennsylvanian Fire-Places: The Literary Birth of “Dr. Franklin, International Man of Science”
Budd, Adam (University of Edinburgh, Scotland), The Interests of Patronage: Assessing Andrew Millar's Financial Ledgers (1749-69)
Jennings, Judith (Kentucky Foundation for Women, USA), Trading Books – Trading Ideas about Gender: Mary Morris Knowles vs. James Boswell  

10E - Ideologies into Print  (Auditorium National Archives) abstracts
Chair: Murphy, John (Brigham Young University, USA)
Warren, Christopher (Merton College, Oxford, UK), English Literary Grotius
Whittaker, David J. (Brigham Young University, USA), John Taylor and Mormon Imprints in Europe, 1840-1853
Henriksen, Erin (Tel Aviv University, Israel), Cross-Cultural Encounters and Local Reading Communities: A 17th Century Quaker Case

15.45-16.15: Tea/coffee

16.15-17.45: Round Table: La disparition du Livre? Google Book search and the World of Learning (Aula)
Chair: Rutten, Paul (University of Leiden)
Howsam, Leslie (University of Windsor), Nieuwerburgh, Inge van (University Library Ghent), Ovenden, Richard (Bodleian Library), Taylor, Judith (Elsevier) Vries, Saskia de (Amsterdam University Press)

17.45: Conference close
18.00: Reception

19.00: Closing Banquet

Saturday 15 July 2006

Post-conference programme. Excursions to The Hague, Antwerp and Amsterdam (click here for more details)

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