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<p class="MsoNormal" style="">“HISTORY
OF THE BOOK CONFERENCE”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""> 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. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="">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) <i> Helpful</i> <i>Scribal
Errors: The Case of the Exeter Book</i>; Philip Palmer (Graduate
Student, Dept.
of English, University of Massachusetts Amherst) <i>Richard
Hakluyt,
Censorship, and the Textual Transmission of the Failed Voyage
Narrative </i>;
and Daniel Gordon (Professor, Dept. of History, Associate Dean,
Commonwealth Honors College, University of Massachusetts Amherst)
<i>A
Best-Seller in the 18th Century: Raynal's History of the East
and West Indies.</i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="">The
afternoon speakers will be Cheryl Harned (Graduate Student, Dept.
of History,
University of Massachusetts Amherst) <i>Visual and Material
Culture and the
Making of A Place of Reading: Three Centuries of Reading in
America</i>; and
N.C. Christopher Couch (Lecturer, Dept. of Comparative Literature,
University
of Massachusetts Amherst) <i>Will Eisner and the Graphic Novel.</i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="">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!" <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="">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
<a href="mailto:renaissance@english.umass.edu">renaissance@english.umass.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">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. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="">The
Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="">650
East Pleasant Street<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="">Amherst,
MA 01004<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="">(413-577-3600<o:p></o:p></p>
<span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><a
href="http://www.umass.edu/renaissance/">http://www.umass.edu/renaissance/</a></span>
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