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• Andrew Koenig, “Forster's Locked Journal (and Other Archival Omissions)”

• Jeffrey Careyva, “John Ashbery’s Evanescence & Preserving a Poet’s Library”

• Ruthie Block, “Another Recitation of Her Trace: On Dorothy Porter Wesley and Fugitive Planning for Fugitive Texts”

• Daniela Jara Rodríguez, “Following the Material Traces of an Untimely Idea: Atrás do Pensamento (ms), Objeto Gritante (ms) to Água Viva (1973) Ou Como Fazer um Anti-livro para Acabar com o Tempo”

 

11:15–11:45: Break

 

11:45–13:00: (Built) Environments

• Claire Climer, “‘More ways to branch than any cedar pencil will ever find’: Book Materiality in Richard Powers’s The Overstory (2018)”

• Paul Wu, “A Book as a Blueprint: Authenticity, Authority, and the Facsimile Reproduction of the Nashville Parthenon”

• Peter Haskin, “Miraculous Images Lost and Found in Villaseñors Theatro Americano (1746–48)”

 

13:00–14:00: Lunch
 

14:00–15:15: Publishers’ Choices

• Feier Ying, “Knowledge Replicas: Hand-Copying Books and the Continuity of Painting Knowledge in Seventeenth-Century Mount Yu, China”

• Shih-Yu Juan, “Beyond Written Text: Coordinating Diverse Printing Technologies for Scientific Translation in Late Nineteenth-Century China”

• Louise Moulin, “Absences as Catalysts: An Inquiry into Publishers and their Networks in 17th-Century Paris”
   

15:15–15:45: Break

 

15:45–17:00: Alternative Material Texts

• Sergio Leos, “Transatlantic Oral Communication in Sixteenth Century Iberian Empires”

• Andrew Suárez, “‘I Will Not Lose My Identity, for I Am Already Whole’: Recovering the Zine Archive, Zinesters of Color, and Reading Zines as Ephemera”

• Manny Medrano, “Quipu Fragmentology”