Date/Time
Date(s) - 18 Sep 2015 until 19 Sep 2015
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
Location
Amherst College, Archives & Special Collections, Robert Frost Library
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Books and Print between Cultures, 1500-1900*
Amherst College, September 18-19, 2015
Keynote speaker: Sanjay Subrahmanyam (Distinguished Professor & Irving and Jean Stone Endowed Chair in Social Sciences, UCLA)
Organized by Yael Rice (Amherst College, History of Art & Asian Languages and Civilizations)
This interdisciplinary symposium will investigate the role that books (codices, rolls, scrolls, and other related media), prints, and their associated technologies played in mediating and instantiating cultural difference in the early modern period. By framing the history of books and prints as meandering and material, this symposium aims to contribute new dialogues to the study of the global early modern.
The symposium will begin at 4pm on Friday, September 18, with an open house at Amherst College’s Archives & Special Collections, with Sanjay Subrahmanyam’s keynote lecture following at 5:30pm. A full day of talks (8:45 am – 5:45 pm) is scheduled for Saturday, September 19. The topics are diverse and cover early modern book / material cultures and practices from East Asia to Latin America.
For more information, including the full program and paper abstracts, please see the symposium website: http://booksandprint.sites.amherst.edu/
You will also find a pdf containing the full program and abstracts attached to this email.
The symposium is free and open to the public; however, we do ask that those wishing to attend register through the symposium website.
Please also note that a similarly themed symposium (“Agents of Contact: Books and Print between Cultures in the Early Modern Period”), organized by Andras Kisery (City College of New York), is scheduled to take place in New York City on September 25: https://agentsofcontact.wordpress.com/
*This event has been generously supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; the Dean of Faculty, the Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations (the Tagliabue and Hall Funds), the Department of Art and the History of Art, and the Program in European Studies at Amherst College; and the Book Studies Concentration at Smith College.