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a debate and discussion with
SVEN BIRKERTS,
writer and critic, director of Bennington College writing seminars
&
JENNY DAVIDSON,
blogger, novelist, professor of English, Columbia University
at 4 pm in 516 HAMILTON HALL
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April 25
Friday |
The Columbia Early Modern Seminar, in collaboration with the Rare Book
and Manuscript Library of Columbia University, is pleased to announce
FORMS OF EARLY MODERN WRITING
A Conference and Exhibition
at 523 Butler Library
9:00 Opening Remarks
Michael Ryan, Columbia University
Alan Stewart, Columbia University
9:15
Chair: Benedict Robinson, SUNY Stony Brook
Alan Farmer, Ohio State University,
"Forms of News: Printed
Newsbooks and the Politics of the Thirty Years' War in England"
Zachary Lesser, University of Pennsylvania
"Shakespeare's Crown and
Globe (Bookshops)"
11:15
Chair: Henry Turner , Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Amanda Bailey, University of Connecticut, Storrs
"Reading the Hand
of Human Capital"
Shankar Raman, MIT
"Specifying the Unknown"
2:30
Chair: Adam Zucker , University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Hannibal Hamlin, Ohio State University
"The Geneva Bible as Bible
for Dummies"
Heather James, University of Southern California
"Commonplaces,
Inventories, and the Forms of Authorship"
Tanya Pollard, CUNY Brooklyn College
"Translating Greek Drama:
Schoolbooks and Popular Theater in Early Modern England"
5:00 Keynote Lecture
Chair: Molly Murray, Columbia University
Peter Stallybrass, University of Pennsylvania
"Marking Commonplaces
in English Printed Books"
6:00 Reception
Please also attend the complementary exhibition—curated by
Patricia Akhimie, Rebecca Calcagno, Saskia Cornes, Musa Gurnis, Adam Hooks, Bryan Lowrance, Sara Murphy, and Brynhildur Heiðardóttir Ómarsdóttir in collaboration with the speakers—on display in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library, located on the 6th Floor of Butler
Library.
With questions, contact Allison Deutermann (akd2006@columbia.edu) or
András Kisery (ak508@columbia.edu).
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