[Libri] Seminar

Tue Oct 9 18:07:51 EDT 2007

Hello Jim,
Is your Seminar open to the public? to the list 
subscribers? or only to Hampshire College people?
Jane
Trigere

At 12:00 PM 10/7/2007, you wrote:
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>    1. Save the date (8 November): Hampshire College Center for  the
>       Book Seminar (Prof. James Wald (der Geist, der stets verneint))
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>In conjunction with the Museums10 "BookMarks" program, our seminar
>will meet to discuss writings and themes of the speakers taking part
>in the series of events relating to the history and future of the
>book ("Books to Blogs and Back" weekend).
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>The seminar will take place at:
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>Emily Dickinson Hall Lounge
>Hampshire College
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>Thursday, 8 November
>7:00 p.m.
>as always, light refreshments will be provided
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>(details will follow, and texts will be available in advance)
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>Below is a provisional description of the events of Books/Blogs.
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>We are very pleased that our seminar is in full swing again, and we
>look forward to seeing you.
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>Jim Wald
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>The Program (all events take place at Mount Holyoke College)
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>Thursday, November 15, 2007
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>Keynote lecture
>Gamble Auditorium, 7:00 pm
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>Robert Darnton, recently named Carl H. Pforzheimer University
>Professor and Director of Harvard University Library, has helped to
>create the field known as “the history of the book.” A former Rhodes
>Scholar and MacArthur Fellow, as well as de Chevalier of France’s
>Légion d’honneur, Darnton is internationally recognized not only for
>his work on the literary world of Enlightenment France as well as the
>history of the book in general.  Announcing his appointment last May,
>Harvard Provost Steven Hyman described him as “an entrepreneur in
>exploring electronic books, Web publishing, and other forms of new
>media.”
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>For his presentation, “The Research Library in the New Age of
>Information,” Darnton asks:  How can we get our bearings in the new
>landscape created by the explosion of information technology?  An
>attempt to put the present in historical perspective suggests two
>arguments.  According to the first, technological change since the
>invention of writing has increased at such an accelerating rate that
>we have entered a new era, one without precedent: the information
>age.  According to the second, every age is an age of information,
>each in its own way, and the current sense of bewilderment at the
>textual chaos in cyberspace ignores a fundamental fact: texts have
>always been unstable.  Whether we consider the daily newspaper or the
>First Folio of Shakespeare, we encounter shifts in meaning produced
>in the very process of transmission.  Instead of entering a new era,
>therefore, we may be suffering from a collective case of false
>consciousness.  But the modern modes of communicating information
>have created a new role for research libraries.  They still stand at
>the center of campuses, their architecture proclaiming their
>importance for the preservation of knowledge.  But behind their
>classical facades they store and transmit digitized information in
>new ways.  Far from being made obsolete by enterprises like Google,
>they function as platforms for developing new kinds of scholarship;
>and they may be crucial in correcting some of the inadequacies of
>Google itself
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>Friday, November 16, 2007
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>Interactive Workshops, 9:00  11:00 am
>LITS Information Commons, Mount Holyoke College Library
>Interactive activities and exhibits relating to the history of book
>creation and publication
>Hand bookbinding demonstrations by Val Moss of the Boston University
>Conservation Lab
>Small letterpress printing demonstration by master printer Carl
>Darrow of Historic Deerfield
>University of Massachusetts Press, Bruce Wilcox
>Zines
>Self Publishing Online (LuLu)
>I-Photo books
>Braille Books: how technology has help the disabled
>Blogs
>Kirtas Book Scanner demonstration by Joseph Merritt & Company
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>Lecture, 11:00 am
>Dwight 101
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>Jason Epstein has been involved in book publishing since the 1950s.
>At Doubleday he created Anchor Books, which helped to propel the so-
>called “paperback revolution” and established the trade paperback
>format. With colleagues, he founded the New York Review of Books and
>in the 1982 created the Library of America, the prestigious publisher
>of American classics. For many years, he was editorial director of
>Random House. He also created the Readers Catalog of Back Titles, a
>precursor to online stores like Amazon; and co-founded OnDemandBooks,
>the company that sells the book vending machine.
>
>Epstein will discuss how new digital technologies make the book
>publishing industry obsolete, but not the book itself.  Rather, he
>sees digital technology as an opportunity to replace publishers 
>physical inventories and costly infrastructure  with deep virtual
>inventory that will be ubiquitously cheaply available to readers via
>print-on-demand machines, or Book ATMs.
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>
>Panel discussion: The Past and Future of the Book,
>Gamble Auditorium, 1:30 pm
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>Corey Flintoff, National Public Radio, moderator
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>Terry Belanger, University Professor and Honorary Curator of Special
>Collections at the University of Virginia since 1992, is the founding
>director of the Rare Book School (RBS) there. Between 1972 and 1992,
>he ran a master's program for the training of rare book and special
>collections librarians at the Columbia School of Library Service. A
>2005 MacArthur Fellow, he has given his $500,000 award to RBS support
>its work. He is dedicated to enhancing understanding of the
>importance of the book in an increasingly digital world and to
>getting “books as physical objects from where they’re not wanted to
>where they are.” For his presentation, “Books and Horses,” Belanger
>will take as his text a statement by Sandra Kirshenbaum (editor of
>Fine Print, 1975-1990) who has pointed out that the future of the
>codex book may turn out to be similar to that of the horse. There are
>still plenty of horses in the world, but they are now employed more
>for recreational purposes than for their horsepower. In a coda
>following his consideration of the long past of the codex book, he
>will speculate on its possible futures.
>
>Sven Birkerts, essayist and literary critic, has taught writing at
>Emerson College and Mount Holyoke College and is currently lecturer
>at Harvard University. Since 2002, Birkerts has been editor of AGNI,
>the web-based version of the acclaimed literary journal. He is most
>well known for writing The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in
>an Electronic Age, which posits a decline in reading due to the
>overwhelming advances of the Internet and other technologies of the
>electronic age.  In The Gutenberg Elegies, he has written:  “Our
>growing immersion in interactive electronic communication” may be
>“cutting us off from the civilizing powers of the written word.” In
>his presentation, “The Hive Life,” based on a recent AGNI essay, he
>will focus less on the book itself than on the changing information
>environment, the shift to the merged and collective at the expense of
>the subjective/individual, which the book has for so long enshrined.
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>Lisa Gitelman is Associate Professor in the Department of Media
>Studies, Catholic University in Washington DC. She studies media as
>uniquely complicated subjects of history. In her recent Always
>Already New: Media, History and the Data of Culture, she writes: “A
>modern sense of history . . . is inextricable from experiences of
>inscription, of writing, print, photography, sound recording, cinema,
>and now—one must wonder—digital media that save text, image, and
>sound files. Specifically, when media are new, they help to challenge
>deeply held assumptions about the ways that meaning is authored and
>conveyed, revealing the points at which those assumptions remain
>importantly unsettled.”  In her presentation, “Reading at Risk,” she
>casts her gaze toward the future of the book, focusing in part on
>novel reading. She will ask, for example, how in 200 years moral
>panic about reading novels has shifted to moral panic about not
>reading novels.
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>Reception, 3:30 pm
>Mount Holyoke College Library Courtyard
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