[Libri] Renaissance Center: Open Print Shop Friday afternoon; Book Conference Saturday

[Jim Wald (Hampshire College Center for the Book)]

  From the Renaissance Center:

This Friday, September 24, the Renaissance Center's Master Printer Penni 
Martorell will be available for Open Print Shop hours at the Renaissance 
Center from 3:00 onward.  Anyone who is interested is welcome.

For a full listing of Center events see our calendar 
http://www.umass.edu/renaissance/calendar.htm on our new website.



AND:  don't forget the Book Conference Saturday:

"HISTORY OF THE BOOK CONFERENCE"

  The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies 
presents a day-long conference on The History of the Book on September 
25, 2010 featuring Keynote Speaker Michael Suarez S.J. Director of Rare 
Book School, Professor of English, and University Professor, University 
of Virginia.

The conference features six speakers who will each present a 45 minute 
lecture with a brief discussion period after each talk.  The morning's 
roster will consist of  Steven Harris (Associate Professor, Dept. of 
English, University of  Massachusetts Amherst) / Helpful/ /Scribal 
Errors: The Case of the Exeter Book/; Philip Palmer (Graduate Student, 
Dept. of English, University of Massachusetts Amherst) /Richard Hakluyt, 
Censorship, and the Textual Transmission of the Failed Voyage Narrative 
/; and Daniel Gordon (Professor, Dept. of History, Associate Dean, 
Commonwealth  Honors College, University of Massachusetts Amherst) /A 
Best-Seller in the 18th Century: Raynal's History of the East and West 
Indies./

The afternoon speakers will be Cheryl Harned (Graduate Student, Dept. of 
History, University of Massachusetts Amherst) /Visual and Material 
Culture and the Making of A Place of Reading: Three Centuries of Reading 
in America/; and N.C. Christopher Couch (Lecturer, Dept. of Comparative 
Literature, University of Massachusetts Amherst) /Will Eisner and the 
Graphic Novel./

Michael F. Suarez, S.J. (Director of Rare Book School, Professor of 
English, and University Professor, University of Virginia) will close 
the conference will be the keynote address of "Salvete et valete!"

The conference takes place on September 25, 2010 and runs from 9:00AM- 
5:00PM in the Reading Room of The Renaissance Center, 650 East Pleasant 
Street, Amherst, MA 01004. The conference is free and lunch will be 
provided but advance registration is required. To register, call 
413-577-3600 or email renaissance at english.umass.edu 
<mailto:renaissance at english.umass.edu>

Sponsorship for this event is provided by the University of 
Massachusetts Amherst Libraries; University of Massachusetts Amherst 
History Department; University of Massachusetts Amherst Department of 
Languages, Literatures, &  Cultures; Hampshire College: Simmons College 
Graduate School of Library and Information Science; University of 
Massachusetts Amherst English Department; and the Massachusetts Center 
for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies.

The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies

650 East Pleasant Street

Amherst, MA  01004

(413-577-3600

http://www.umass.edu/renaissance/




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