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Destroyed, Removed, and Reassembled: Book Collections in the Premodern World
Feb 3
Royce Hall, 314,
UCLA
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CMRS-CEGS Conference
“Destroyed, Removed, and Reassembled: Book Collections in the Premodern World,” organized by Matthew Fisher (English, UCLA) and Devin Fitzgerald (Library Special Collections, UCLA).
| Day 1 – Friday, February 3, 2023 | |
| 9:15 – 9:45 am | Coffee, Tea, Fruit, Pastries |
| 9:45 – 10:00 | Welcoming Remarks Zrinka Stahuljak (UCLA), CMRS-CEGS Director Matthew Fisher (UCLA) and Devin Fitzgerald (UCLA), organizers |
| 10:00 – 11:30 | Catherine Sutherland (Magdalene College, Cambridge) “The Reassembly of Mary Astell’s Personal Library within the Old Library of Magdalene College, Cambridge” – via Zoom |
| Matthew Fisher (UCLA) “Making Books Old in the Cotton Library” |
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| 11:30 am – 1:00 pm | Lunch Break |
| 1:00 – 2:30 | Bryan Keene (Riverside City College) “Fragmentary Views of Premodern Globality: Lessons from Museum Collecting and Display Practices” |
| Eyob Derillo (The British Library) “Introduction to the Medieval Ethiopian Manuscript Collections in the British Library” |
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| 2:30 – 2:45 | Break |
| 2:45 – 4:15 | Gwendolyn Collaco (MIT) “Mobile Images on a Malleable Market: 17th c. Ottoman Costume Albums Transformed and Altered” – via Zoom |
| Hienin Diakite and Paul Naylor (Hill Museum & Manuscript Library) “Destruction, Creation, Relocation: Archiving Timbuktu’s written heritage 1862-2022” |
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| Day 2 – Saturday, February 4, 2023 | |
| 9:30 am | Coffee, Tea, fruit, pastries |
| 10:00 – 11:30 | Nur Sobers-Khan (Ministry of Culture Saudi Arabia) “Provenance Research and South Asian manuscript collections: Reconstructing the Islamic Intellectual History of pre-1857 Delhi” – via Zoom |
| Devin Fitzgerald (UCLA) “Assembling and Reassembling Chinese Libraries in Seventeenth-Century Century Europe” |
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| 11:30 – 11:45 | Break |
| 11:45 am – 1:15 pm | Fred Shan (University of Texas, Austin) “Bridging the Past and the Future: Book Collecting and Scholarly Innovations in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century China” |
| Alex Hidalgo (Texas Christian University) “Everyday Forms of Book Dispersal Prevention” |
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| 1:15 | Close of Conference |
Register to attend online with Zoom.