All sessions will meet in the Common Room of 2 Divinity Hall (The Harvard-Yenching Library)

 

May 16: Book Basics

8:30-9:00

Light breakfast

9:00-10:30

Introductory Remarks

Xylographic artifacts versus hand-press books: what are the problems?

11:00-12:30

Descriptive bibliography: How to read collations for Western early modern books (Devin Fitzgerald)

12:30-2:00

Lunch

2:00-3:30

Chinese descriptive bibliography: How do we describe Chinese rare books? (Soren Edgren, Princeton)

4:00-5:00

Lab: Describing books (Soren Edgren, Princeton)

 

May 17: Identifying Imprints

8:30-9:00

Light Breakfast

9:00-10:30

Tang, Song, and Yuan books (Nathalie Monnet, BNF; Soren Edgren, Princeton)

11:00-12:30

Ming and Qing books (Cynthia Brokaw, Brown; Soren Edgren, Princeton)

12:30-2:00

Lunch

2:00-3:30

Illustrated Books (MA Yachen, NTHU)

4:00-5:00

Lab: Text identification (Devin Fitzgerald)

 

May 18: Making Bibliographies

8:30-9:00

Light breakfast

9:00-10:30

The Development of Muluxue and relevant resources (Martina Siebert, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin)

11:00-12:30

Contemporary bibliographies (Group)

12:30-2:00

Lunch

2:00-3:30

Books in other East Asian languages (Soren Edgren, Princeton; Devin Fitzgerald)

4:00-5:00

Lab: Writing your own descriptive catalog

6:30-8:00

Dinner at Dumpling House

 

May 19: Digital Books

8:30-9:00

Light breakfast

9:00-10:30

Digital Humanities: An (Extremely) Opinionated Introduction (Anthony Ruozzi, Independent Scholar)

11:00-12:30

Digital Possibilities (Donald Sturgeon, Harvard)

12:30-2:00

Lunch

2:00-3:30

Lab: Making digital projects

4:00-5:00

Concluding discussion