Roundtable 5: Materiality as a Sustainable Humanistic Discourse
Session Organizers: Dahlia Porter (University of Glasgow) & Elizabeth Yale (University of Iowa)
Moderator: Heather Wolfe (Curator of Manuscripts, Folger Shakespeare Library)
Erika Mary Boeckeler (Northeastern University)
“The Linguistic Biases of Descriptive Bibliography”
Raina Joines (University of North Texas)
“The Scholar’s Art: Making & Mining Material Artifacts”
Robert Riter (University of Alabama)
“Engaging and Representing Scientific Data through Book Art”
Todd Victor Samuelson (University of Utah)
“Lexical Substrate: The Materiality of Language in the History of the Book”
Leslie Smith (Winston-Salem, NC)
“From Wonder to New Artwork”
Simran Thadani (San Francisco, CA)
“Rare Books Beyond the Ivory Tower”
See the conference website at http://rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017/ for more information about the conference.
