Princeton University Center for the Study of Books and Media
2007 Graduate Student Conference Schedule
All are welcome to attend

Saturday, February 10, 2007, Friend Center 004

Breakfast

9:00-9:30

Panel I: Systems of Communication

9:30-10:45:
Joanne Filippone (Fordham University)
“The Price of Books in England, 1300-1483”

Will Slauter (Princeton University)
“George Washington is Dead: Forgery and Authenticity in the Making of International News”

James Brooke-Smith (New York University)
“The Print System in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain”

Coffee Break

10:45-11:15

Panel II: Dangerous Books!

11:15-12:30:
Saladin Ahmed (Rutgers University)
“Printing the Kingdom of Darkness: ‘Wonder Books’ and Late Seventeenth-Century English Publishing”

Tracy Miller (New York University)
“Infected Pages: Public Libraries, Germ Theory, and the Book Scares of Late Victorian England”

Francine Becker (Drew University)
"Boys Behaving Badly: The British Obscenity Trials of Hubert Selby Jr’s Last Exit to Brooklyn"

Lunch: (Friend Center Convocation Room)

12:30-1:45pm

Panel III: Readers and Writers as Collectors: Commonplace Books and Travel Journals

1:45-3:00:
Jonathan Hsy (University of Pennsylvania)
“Periodizing Merchants: Urban Temporality and the Compiliations of Richard Hill and John Colyns”

William Weaver (Columbia University)
“Erasmus’s De Copia and Reformation Reading Practices”

Nichole Bennett-Bealer (Drew University)
“Transatlantic Calling Card: Willa Cather’s Visit with A. E. Housman”

Coffee Break

3:00-3:30

Final Discussion

3:30 - 5:00: Nigel Smith (Princeton University) and the audience

Reception