9:00 Coffee, Opening remarks
9:15-10:25 Across media
Jane Raisch, UC Berkeley
“First of all bookes:” Musaeus on the borders of early modern Hellenism
Benjamin Schmidt, University of Washington
Exotic Pleasures: Geography, Material Arts, and the ‘Agreeable’ World”
Respondent: Rachel Eisendrath, Barnard College
10:45-12:30 The organization of knowledge
Liza Strakhov, Marquette U
‘Englisshed… in the best wyse’: John Shirley’s Treatment of English in Cambridge, Trinity College MS R.3.20
Seth Kimmel, Columbia University
Between Bibliography and Cartography in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Marjorie Rubright , University of Toronto
Ground-works: Lexicography, Geology, Globalization
Respondent: Barbara Naddeo, CUNY City College
12:30-2: Lunch break
2-3:10 Foreign affairs
Dagmar Riedel, Columbia University
Concepts of Antiquarianism and the Exchange of Books with the Middle East
Robert Batchelor, Georgia Southern University
Maps Redrawn: The Enlightenment Translations of Japanese Castaways
Respondent: Yael Rice, Amherst College
3:30-4:40 Western technology and peripheral vision
Barbara E. Mundy, Fordham University
The indigenous culture of the book, New Spain, 16th century
Ivan Lupić, Stanford University
The Mobile Queen: Observing Hecuba in Renaissance Europe
Respondent: Henry Turner, Rutgers U
5-6:10 The limits of the material
Michael Gaudio, University of Minnesota
Hearing Print: Jean de Léry, Theodor de Bry, and the Sound of a Tupinambá Dance
Dániel Margócsy, CUNY Hunter College
The Mythopoesis of Circulation: Natural History and Orangutans in the Early Modern World
Respondent: Martin Elsky, CUNY Graduate Center
Agents of Contact: Books and Print between Cultures in the Early Modern Period 