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The Perils of Print Culture
The Trinity Long Room Hub Building, Fellows’ Square, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
Friday 10 - Sunday 12 September 2010.
All plenary sessions take place in the Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre on the second floor of the
building. When there are parallel sessions, the ‘A’ session takes place in the Neill/Hoey
Lecture Theatre, and the ‘B’ session takes place in the seminar room on the second floor.
PROGRAMME
FRIDAY 10 SEPTEMBER
9.00 – 10.00
Registration and Coffee in Trinity Long Room Hub Building, Fellows’ Square,
Trinity College Dublin.
10.00 – 10.30 Session 1: Welcome and Introduction
Dr Jason McElligott and Dr Eve Patten
10.30 – 12.00 Session 2: Medieval and Renaissance Print Cultures
Professor John Thompson (Queen’s University, Belfast) ‘The Perils of Print
Culture in Late Medieval English Manuscript Study’.
Professor Andrew Hughes (University of Toronto) ‘Page layout and
preservation of plates in some early printed British Breviaries’.
Mr Matthew Salisbury (Worcester College, Oxford) ‘Early printed books and
the modern resources that describe them: the case of the Hereford Breviary,
1505’.
CHAIR: Professor John Scattergood (School of English, TCD)
12.30 – 2.00
Lunch
2.00 -3.30
Session 3: ‘Book History Sans Frontiers’
Professor David Finkelstein (Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh) ‘Printers
on the Move: A Transnational Approach to Book Trade Research’.
Professor James Raven (University of Essex) ‘The Perils of Nationalism in
Book History’.
CHAIR: Professor Nicholas Grene (School of English, TCD)
3.30 – 4.00
Tea
4.00 – 5.30
Session 4: Questions of Practice
Professor Leslie Howsam (Windsor, Ontario) ‘The Practice of Book and
Print Culture: Sources, Methods, Readings’.
CHAIR: Dr Ian Gadd (Bath Spa University, UK)
6.30
7.30
Wine reception at The Clarence Hotel, Wellington Quay.
Conference dinner at The Clarence Hotel.
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SATURDAY 11 SEPTEMBER
9.30 – 11.00
Session 5: Print and Social Change
Ms Sarah Crider Arndt (Trinity College Dublin) ‘William St Clair and
Copyright in Ireland before 1800’.
Dr Georgina Abreu (University of Minho, Portugal) ‘Print Culture and
Regency Radicalism’
Ms Carol Maddock (National Library of Ireland) ‘By Tooke or by Crooke?
Mary Crooke, de facto King's Printer in Ireland, 1670-1685’.
CHAIR: Professor David Dickson (School of History and
Humanities, TCD)
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee and Tea
11.30 – 1.30
Session 6A: Print and the Public
Dr Kathleen Lynch (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC) ‘How does
the fixity of print become a problem for religious identity?’
Ms Annette Walton (Linacre College, Oxford) ‘The Thomas Marshall
Collection of English Civil War Printed Ephemera’.
Professor Ann Cline Kelly (Howard University, Washington DC) ‘Initial
Anxieties about the Perils of Print Culture in England Circa 1700: The Fable
as Case Study’.
CHAIR: Professor John Thompson (Queen’s University, Belfast)
Session 6B: Fixity and Movement
Dr Freya Cox Jensen (Merton College, Oxford) ‘“Pretious treasures made
cheap”? The real cost of reading Roman history in early modern England’.
Dr Eamon Darcy (Trinity College Dublin) ‘The 1641 rebellion and
contemporary print culture’.
Dr Ariel Hessayon (Goldsmiths, University of London) ‘The publication of
continental European writings during the English Revolution, 1641–1660’.
CHAIR: Professor Raymond Gillespie (NUI, Maynooth)
1.30 – 2.30
Lunch
2.30 – 4.00
Session 7: The Eighteenth Century
Dr Toby Barnard (Hertford College, Oxford) ‘The impact of print in Ireland,
1680-1800: sceptical reflections’.
Dr Elizabeth Edwards (University of Wales) ‘Iolo Morganwg and the
Perils of Print Culture’.
Ms Helen J Williams (University of Northumbria) ‘“The Book Will Sell”:
Tristram Shandy and Grub Street’.
CHAIR: Dr Darryl Jones (School of English, TCD)
4.00 – 4.30
Coffee and Tea
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4.30 – 6.00
Session 8: Serials and News
Dr Cristina Neagu (Christ Church, Oxford) ‘The “Lesser” Dürer? Broadsheets
and the Newsreel Effect’.
Dr Elizabeth Tilley (NUI, Galway) ‘Picturing the Truth: Illustration in
Nineteenth-Century Irish Serials’.
Ms Anna Luker Gilding (King’s College London) ‘From “fair forms” to
“withered leaves”: understanding 1830s American women’s periodicals
through time’.
CHAIR: Professor Nicholas Allen (NUI, Galway)
6.00 – 6.30
Coffee and Tea
6.30 – 7.30
Session 9: Theory and Practice
William St Clair (Institute of English Studies, University of London)
‘The Perils of “Book History’”.
CHAIR: Dr Jason McElligott (Trinity Long Room Hub)
7.30
Wine reception and book previews
SUNDAY 12 SEPTEMBER
9.30 - 11.00
Session 10: The Post-Modern Book
Dr Maria Leticia del Toro Garcia (University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria)
‘Susan Howe and the Difficulty of Printing Art in Printed Form’.
Ms Margery Masterson (University of Bristol) ‘From Victim to Scoundrel:
Tracking One Ernest Scott Jervis through the Victorian Periodicals in the
Digitized Age’.
Ms Neassa Doherty (NUI, Galway) ‘The digitization of Eighteenth-Century
Irish Reproduction Engravings’.
CHAIR: Dr Eve Patten (School of English, TCD)
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee
11.30 – 1.00
Session 11A: Neither Marginal nor Peripheral? Irish and Welsh
Print-Cultures.
Dr Deirdre Nic Mhathúna (St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra) ‘The
Transmission of Piaras Feiritéar’s poetry: exploring the interface between
manuscript and print cultures’.
Dr Marc Caball (Humanities Institute of Ireland, UCD) ‘Cultures of
Communication in Early-Modern Gaelic Ireland: An Appraisal’
Dr Marion Löffler (National Library of Wales) ‘Radical Welsh Texts in Serial
Publications in Wales and England in the 1790s’
CHAIR: Dr Anne Markey (School of English, TCD)
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Session 11B: Shifting Contexts
Dr Rebecca Bullard (Merton College, Oxford) ‘The gathered text, 1650-1750’.
Dr James Loxley (University of Edinburgh) ‘Orpheus Dismembered: The
Work of John Cleveland and the Divisions of Academic Labour’.
Mr Mark Williams (Hertford College, Oxford) ‘Lacking Ware, withal: Finding
Sir James Ware among the many incarnations of his histories’.
CHAIR: Dr Jason McElligott (Trinity Long Room Hub)
1.00 – 2.00
Lunch
2.00 – 3.30
Session 12A: Print Culture in Twentieth-Century Ireland
Professor Andrew Kuhn (Boston College, Massachusetts) ‘Pirates, Cowboys,
and Gypsies: The Luxurious Low Culture of the Cuala Broadside’.
Ms Deirdre Brady (University of Limerick) ‘Private Presses and the Perils of
Publishing: Women and Print Culture in Mid-Twentieth Century Ireland’
Professor Nicholas Allen (NUI, Galway) ‘Jack Yeats, Print and Image’.
CHAIR: Professor W.J. McCormack (Former Keeper, Edward
Worth Library 1733, Dublin)
Session 12B: Bibliographical Futures
Dr Philip John (University of St Andrews) ‘The Universal Short Title
Catalogue: The Development of a Universal Catalogue of Sixteenth-Century
Material’.
Dr Richard Cunningham (INKE Project, Canada) ‘Do Bibliographical
Codes Translate to Computer Code?’
CHAIR: Dr Rebecca Bullard (Merton College, Oxford)
3.30 – 4.00
Tea
4.00 – 5.15
Session 13: Closing the Book?
Professor Michael Suarez (University of Virginia) ‘The Future for Books in a
Digital Age’.
CHAIR: Professor Jane Ohlmeyer (School of History and Humanities,
TCD)
5.15 – 5.25
Conference Close
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