2018/19 Meetings: Term 2
The Book and Print Initiative meets twice a month, on alternate Thursdays 2:00 - 3:00 pm, in or near Senate House, London. Each meeting features two informal 20-minute talks from researchers based in and around SAS, followed by coffee. All are welcome. All are also welcome to join for lunch with the speakers before each session, 12:45 - 1:45 pm, but please email the convenors for details (lunch not provided).
10 January, room 243
Margaret Joachim (IES) The Cyclopaedia Saga: Pitfalls of a Serial Publication Purchase in the Early Nineteenth Century *Winner: 2018 GP Johnson Prize*
Dennis Duncan (Bodleian Libraries)
On the Same Page: The Index in the First Few Decades of Print
24 January, room 246
Brooke Palmieri (Camp Books)
Queering Print History
E-J Scott (Duckie)
Princess, 1719: Prints of the Georgian Queers & their Pleasure Gardens
7 February, room 246
Alexandra Marraccini (Warburg) Shell Games: Print Sources, Representation, and Oceanic Objects in the English Early Modern Cabinet
Peyvand Firouzeh (Max-Planck-Institut)
Heritage, Self-Image, and the Reception of the Shahnama (Book of Kings) between Iran and India: British Library MS Or.1403
21 February, room 234
Jose Guevara (ILAS) Literacies in Spanish American Colonies: Knowledges of the Written Word in Lima and Santa Fe de Bogotá between 1650-1750
Olenka Horbatsch (British Museum)
Jacob Cornelisz. van Oostsanen and the Monumental Woodcut in the Low Countries
7 March, room 246
Kris Tetens (SAS)
‘A Penny Plain, Tuppence Coloured': Theatrical Tinsel Prints and London Print Culture in the 1830s
Catherine James (UCL)
Material Networks in Medical Student Dissertations from Leiden before 1900
Convenors: Raphaële Mouren (Warburg) and Elizabeth Savage (Institute of English Studies)