Mellon Symposium on Manuscripts and Rare Books (RBS-Mellon Symposium)

Date: 8 April 2016
Time: 9:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
Location: Gearhart Hall, Honors Study Hall, University of Arkansas
Presented by: The Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in Critical Bibliography at Rare Book School, J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, University of Arkansas Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program, Department of English, University of Arkansas Honors College

Event schedule:

9:40–10:30 a.m. Damian J. Fleming: “Looking for Hebrew in all the Wrong Places.”

10:45–11:35 a.m. Carrisa Harris: “Obscenity, Censorship, and Creativity in Fifteenth-Century English Manuscripts.”

11:50 a.m–12:40 p.m. Joseph A. Howley: “Long Table’s Journey into Nights: How Ancient Books, Medieval Manuscripts, and Early Printing Invented the Table of Contents.”

2:00–2:50 p.m. Virginia Blanton & Nathan Oyler: “Unlocking the Mysteries of a Medieval Chant Book with Multispectral Imaging.”

3:05–4:20 p.m. David F. Johnson: “Visualizing the Paleography of Punctuation: Forensic Philology and the Interventions of the Tremulous Hand of Worcester.”

4:30–5:20 p.m. Amy L. Tigner: “Cooking from the Archives.”

See the event website for full schedule and additional details.

Sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in Critical Bibliography at Rare Book School, J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, University of Arkansas Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program, Department of English, and the University of Arkansas Honors College .