Abstracts of Papers for Symposia, Workshops & Colloquia

Abstracts of Papers
at our Symposia, Workshops & Colloquia

Listed by Year

Please Note.  For convenience, we distinguish between the Activities which we sponsor at larger Conferences and the Events of other kinds which we organize in their own right.

At Conferences, we sponsor and c0-sponsor Sessions and other Activities at the annual International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo in May.  We also sponsor Panels at the annual Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association

Here we focus on the Events, including Symposia, Colloquia, Workshops, and Seminars, which we organize at other centers.

For convenience, we group these Events according to

I.  The Abstracts of Papers published on our website for the Events can be accessed in two ways.

A.  Seminars (Etc) on ‘The Evidence of Manuscripts’ from 1989 to 1994

B.  Symposia (Etc) on various subjects, from 1995 onwards.

Here we present the Abstracts for the Symposia and other Events (1995–)

They can be accessed both

1) By Year of Presentation and then by Author, listed alphabetically by last name: You are here.
2) By Author, listed alphabetically, and then chronologically by Year of Presentation [IN PREPARATION]

II.  Elsewhere we list the Abstracts published, as their Authors wish, for some of our Sessions (since 2007) at the International Congress on Medieval Studies.  They include both our

All the Abstracts for those Sessions are accessible by Indexes both

1) By Author
2) By Year

Before our first website, Abstracts of some Papers in our Sponsored Sessions appeared in the Old English Newsletter, as reported below, with our Index to their Authors and Years.

Now we begin to produce a list of the Authors of the Abstracts published in our Program Booklets for our Events elsewhere than at that Congress, including Seminars, Workshops, Colloquia & Symposia.  Many of our events were accompanied by Abstracts in one form or another, varying from single summaries to longer accounts.  They appear on this site at present through the Posts for their specific Events.

Here we list them in alphabetical order for each event, with references to their Abstracts as represented on this site or elsewhere.

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Note:  Elsewhere on our website appear the Abstracts, concise or extended, for the presentations in our series of Seminars on “The Evidence of Manuscripts”.  They constitute a closed and pioneering set of events which helped to develop and to refine our collaborative, collegial, approach to the study of manuscripts and their contexts.

Those events comprise a focused group, which paved the way both for the publication of the Illustrated Catalogue of Insular, Anglo-Saxon, and Early Anglo-Norman Manuscript Art at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (1997) and for the further events which followed the move of the principal base of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence to the United States in 1994. Among them are the Sessions and other activities at the Annual International Congress on Medieval Studies; multiple Publications (including our website in its first and current versions), and the series of Symposia, Workshops, and Colloquia listed here.

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1995–2000
Symposia on ‘The Transmission of the Bible’

1995
‘The Bible and the Visual Arts’
Barnard College and Columbia University

[Abstracts not included]

This was the first event for the Research Group on Manuscript in the United States, and we did not know how it would succeed.
Hence the focus on the event itself.  It was a success, leading to more.  And the rest is history.

Bouché, Anne-Marie (1995 Symposium Program)
Budny, Mildred (1995 Symposium Program)
Dale, Thomas (1995 Symposium Program)
Hatfield, Rab (1995 Symposium Program)
Lidov, Alexei (1995 Symposium Program)
Schuler, Karl F. (1995 Symposium Program)
Shepard, Dorothy (1995 Symposium Program)

"The Bible and the Visual Arts" Symposium 1995

1995 Symposium Poster

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1996
‘The Carolingian Bible and Its Impact’
Princeton University

For this Symposium, we resumed our practice of providing brief descriptions of the subjects and scope of the papers.  Such had been our tradition for the Seminars on ‘The Evidence of Manuscripts’, with which the Research Group began to hold scholarly meetings since 1989.

Budny, Mildred (1996 Symposium Program)
Chazelle, Celia (1995 Symposium Program)
Diebold, William (1995 Symposium Program)
Dutton, Paul, and Herbert Kessler (1995 Symposium Program)
Ganz, David (1995 Symposium Program)
Kaufmann, Virginia Roehrig (1995 Symposium Program)
Kessler, Herbert, and Paul Dutton (1995 Symposium Program)
Kornbluth, Genevra (1995 Symposium Program)
Nees, Lawrence (1995 Symposium Program)
Ring, Richard (1995 Symposium Program)
Shepard, Dorothy (1995 Symposium Program)
Williams, John (1995 Symposium Program)

Carolingian Bible Symposium Announcement (1996)

1966 Symposium Poster

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1997
‘The Late Antique Bible and Its Impact’
Douglass College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey

Beall, Barbara Apelian (1997 Symposium Program)
Beliaev, Leonid A. (1997 Symposium Program)
Budny, Mildred (1997 Symposium Program)
John, James J. (1997 Symposium Program)
Springer, Carl P.E. (1997 Symposium Program)
Verkerk, Dorothy Hoogland (1997 Symposium Program)
Wright, David H. (1997 Symposium Program)

"Late-Antique Bible and Its Impact" Symposium 1996 Poster

1997 Symposium Poster

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1998
‘The Bible and the Liturgy’
Fordham University

2-sided downloadable 4-page Program Booklet Exterior and Interior

Bennett Hagens, Adelaide (1998 Symposium Program Exterior)
Budny, Mildred (1998 Symposium Program Exterior)
Ganz, David (1998 Symposium Program Interior)
Gyug, Richard F. (1998 Symposium Program Interior)
Huglo, Michel (1998 Symposium Program Interior)
Remley, Paul G. (1998 Symposium Program Interior)
Sauer, Hans (1998 Symposium Program Interior and 1998 Symposium Program Exterior)
Teviotdale, E.C. (1998 Symposium Program Interior)
Tibbetts, Sidney (1998 Symposium Program Exterior)

1998 polychrome poster for 'The Bible and The Liturgy' Symposium at Fordham University

1998 Symposium Poster

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1999
‘The Apocalypse in Word and Image’
Princeton University

2-sided downloadable 6-page Program Booklet Exterior and Interior

Bennett, Adelaide (1999 Symposium Program Interior)
Chernetsov, Alexey V. (1999 Symposium Program Exterior)
Ganz, David (1999 Symposium Program Interior)
Haggh, Barbara (1999 Symposium Program Interior)
Huglo, Michel (1999 Symposium Program Interior)
Krey, Philip (1999 Symposium Program Interior)
Lewis, Suzanne (1999 Symposium Program Exterior)
MacCormack, Sabine G. (1999 Symposium Program Exterior)
Matter, E. Ann (1999 Symposium Program Interior)
Shephard, Dorothy (1999 Symposium Program Interior)
Skemer, Don (1999 Symposium Program Interior)
Van Kampen, Kimberly L. (1999 Symposium Program Interior)
Williams, John (1999 Symposium Program Exterior)

Poster for "The Apocalypse in Word and Image" Symposium (1999)

1999 Symposium Poster

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2000

‘Canterbury and the Bible’
Douglas College, Rutgers University

2-sided downloadable 6-page Program Exterior and Interior

Broderick, Herbert R., III (2000 Symposium Program ‘Interior’)
Emms, Richard (2000 Symposium Program ‘Interior’)
Jones, Christopher A. (2000 Symposium Program ‘Interior’)
McLachlan, Elizabeth Parker (2000 Symposium Program ‘Exterior’)
Marsden, Richard (2000 Symposium Program ‘Interior’)
Reilly, Diane J. (2000 Symposium Program ‘Exterior’)
Remley, Paul G. (2000 Symposium Program ‘Interior’)
Richards, Mary P. (2000 Symposium Program ‘Interior’)
Rosenthal, Jane (2000 Symposium Program ‘Interior’)
Shepard, Dorothy (2000 Symposium Program ‘Exterior’)
Toswell, M. Jane (2000 Symposium Program ‘Interior’)
[Van Kampen, Kimberly L. (2000 Symposium Program ‘Interior’ and 2000 Symposium Program ‘Exterior’):
Note:  This paper was not presented]

2000 Poster in polychrome lettering for the 'Canterbury and the Bible' Symposium at Douglass College of Rutgers University

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2001
‘ “The Dating Service or the Dating Game?”
Problems and Potential of Dating Materials from the Early Medieval Period’

The College of New Jersey
Ewing, New Jersey

The brief descriptions for the papers at this ‘Inaugural and Celebratory Workshop’ provide clues for their approaches and subjects, as a cue for the informal and flexible, but structured, approach to the presentations and discussions.

Budny, Mildred (2001 Workshop)
Chazelle, Celia (2001 Workshop)
Constable, Giles (2001 Workshop)
James, Edward (2001 Workshop)
Kulikowski, Michael (2001 Workshop)
Nees, Lawrence (2001 Workshop)
Rusche, Philip (2001 Workshop)
Russom, Geoffrey (2001 Workshop)

2001 Poster for the Inaugural and Celebratory Workshop on 'The Dating Service or the Dating Game? Problems and Potential of Dating Materials from the Early Medieval Period', laid out in Adobe Garamond

2001 Inaugural and Celebratory Workshop

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2002

‘Shaping Understanding:  Form and Order in the Anglo-Saxon World, 400–1100’
A Colloquium at the British Museum

5-page Program downloadable here

The Abstracts, detailed to various degrees, of the 33 papers presented at the Colloquium were laid out in single columns in a 14-page Booklet (Princeton: Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, 2002), according with the principles of our Style Manifesto, for distribution at the Colloquium and circulation afterward.  That version is available online here.

The Abstracts alone, without mentioning the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, were reprinted in double-column layout in the Old English Newsletter, 35:3 (Spring 2002), A-5–A-15, now available online.

Here we list the authors alphabetically (while the publications list them in the order in which their papers were presented), with reference first to the 2002 Colloquium Booklet and then to the OEN.

Adams, Noël (2002 Colloquium Booklet and OEN page A-5)
Bailey, Richard (2002 Colloquium Booklet and OEN page A-7)
Budny, Mildred (2002 Colloquium Booklet and OEN pages A-9–A-10)
Dickinson, Tania (2002 Colloquium Booklet and OEN pages A-5–A-6)
Evans, Angela (2002 Colloquium Booklet and OEN page A-5)
Farr, Carol A. (2002 Colloquium Booklet and OEN page A-8)
Gameson, Richard (2002 Colloquium Booklet and OEN page A-11)
Gannon, Anna (2002 Colloquium Booklet and OEN page A-12
Ganz, David (2002 Colloquium Booklet and OEN page A-10)
Gittos, Helen (2002 Colloquium Booklet and OEN page A-7)
Graham–Campbell, James (2002 Colloquium Booklet and OEN page A-6)
Hawkes, Jane (2002 Colloquium Booklet and OEN pages A-6–A-7)
Higgitt, John (2002 Colloquium Booklet and OEN page A-12)
Hill, Joyce (2002 Colloquium Booklet and OEN page A-9)
Hines, John (2002 Colloquium Booklet and OEN, page A-6)
Howlett, David (2002 Colloquium Booklet and OEN page A-13)
Keynes, Simon D. (2002 Colloquium Booklet and OEN page A-5)
Netzer, Nancy (2002 Colloquium Booklet and OEN pages A-8–A-9)
Ó Cróinín, Dáibhi (2002 Colloquium Booklet and OEN page A-13)
Orchard, Andy (2002 Colloquium Booklet and OEN page A-13)
Parsons, David (2002 Colloquium Booklet and OEN page A-12)
Rusche, Phillip (2002 Colloquium Booklet and OEN pages A-11–A-12)
Russom, Geoffrey (2002 Colloquium Booklet and OEN page A-11)
Ryan, Michael (2002 Colloquium Booklet and OEN page A-6)
Stevens, Wesley M. (2002 Colloquium Booklet and OEN page A-7)
Stevick, Robert D. (2002 Colloquium Booklet and OEN page A-7)
Szerwiniack, Olivier (2002 Colloquium Booklet and OEN pages A-10–A-11)
Thacker, Alan (2002 Colloquium Booklet and OEN pages A-6–A-7)
Tyler, Elizabeth (2002 Colloquium Booklet and OEN page A-11)
Webster, Leslie E. (2002 Colloquium Booklet and OEN page A-13)
Wood, Michael (2002 Colloquium Booklet and OEN page A-10)
Wormald, Patrick (2002 Colloquium Booklet and OEN pages A-14–A-15)
Youngs, Susan (2002 Colloquium Booklet and OEN page A-6)

2002 Poster in monochrome for the 'Form and Order' Symposium at The British Museum.

2002 Colloquium Poster

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2003
‘Innovations for Editing Texts
from Antiquity to the Enlightenment’

The Ohio State University

6-page downloadable Program Booklet

[Abstracts Not Included]

Allen, Michael (2003 Colloquium)
Brown, Virginia (2003 Colloquium)
Budny, Mildred, and Thomas H. Ohlgren (2003 Colloquium)
Coldewey, John (2003 Colloquium)
Cormier, Raymond (2003 Colloquium)
Dutton, Paul (2003 Colloquium)
Haggh, Barbara (2003 Colloquium)
Huglo, Michel (2003 Colloquium)
Hurlbut, Jesse (2003 Colloquium)
Keiser, George (2003 Colloquium)
Kleist, Aaron J. (2003 Colloquium)
Larrivee, Carol (2003 Colloquium)
Mittman, Asa (2003 Colloquium)
Morrison, Karl (2003 Colloquium)
Newton, Francis, and Gil Renberg (2003 Colloquium)
Ohlgren, Thomas H., and Mildred Budny (2003 Colloquium)
Porter, David (2003 Colloquium)
Renberg, Gil, and Francis Newton (2003 Colloquium)
Reynolds, Roger (2003 Colloquium)
Ruff, Carin (2003 Colloquium)
Rusche, Philip (2003 Colloquium)
Russom, Geoffrey R. (2003 Colloquium)
Springer, Carl (2003 Colloquium)
Stevick, Robert (2003 Colloquium)
Ulman, H. Lewis (2003 Colloquium)
Wallis, Faith (2003 Colloquium)

2003 Poster for Colloquium on 'Innovations in Editing Texts from Antiquity to Enlightenment', laid out in Adobe Garamond

2003 Workshop Poster

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2009
‘Gathering at the Threshold’
A Celebratory Symposium
Princeton University

2-page Program downloadable here

[Abstracts Not Included]

Speakers

Budny, Mildred (2009 Colloquium)
Cormier, Raymond J. (2009 Colloquium)
Ganz, David (2009 Colloquium)
Haberkern, Philip N. (2009 Colloquium)
Hourihane, Colum (2009 Colloquium)
Milliner, Matthew J. (2009 Colloquium)
Morrison, Karl F. (2009 Colloquium)
Thunø, Eric (2009 Colloquium)

2009 Celebratory Anniversary Symposium Program, Page 1 of 2.

2009 Celebratory Anniversary Symposium Program, Page 1 of 2.

2009 Celebratory Anniversary Symposium Program, Page 2 of 2.

2009 Celebratory Anniversary Symposium Program, Page 2 of 2.

Celebratory Symposium Program 20091121

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2013
2013 Poster 1 for the Symposium on 'Identity and Authenticity', laid out in RGME Bembino and illustrated with images courtesy of De Brailes Medieval Art LLC and David W. Sorenson‘Identity & Authenticity
Creating, Preserving, & Transmitting Identities Across Time & Place’

Princeton University

Abstracts in the 2013 Symposium Program Booklet

Budny, Mildred (2013 Symposium)
Carlson, Thomas A. (2013 Symposium)
Congdon, Eleanor A. (2013 Symposium)
Easton, Martha E. (2013 Symposium)
Forness, Philip Michael (2013 Symposium)
Gwara, Scott (2013 Symposium)
Kiraz, George (2013 Symposium)
Morrison, Karl F. (2013 Symposium)
Rassweiler, John H. (2013 Symposium)
Saar, Ortal-Paz (2013 Symposium)
Schilb, Henry D. (2013 Symposium)
Schroeder, Rossitza B. (2013 Symposium)
Shailor, Barbara A. (2013 Symposium)
Sinkevic, Ida (2013 Symposium)
Sorenson, David (2013 Symposium)
Tannous, Jack B. (2013 Symposium)

2013 Poster 1 for the Symposium on 'Identity and Authenticity', laid out in RGME Bembino and illustrated with images courtesy of De Brailes Medieval Art LLC and David W. Sorenson

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2014
Poster for 2014 Symposium on 'Recollections of the Past', laid out in the RGME font Bembino and illustrated with 2 images from a dismembered Book of Hours. Images courtesy of Adelaide Bennett‘Recollections of the Past
Editorial & Artistic Workshops
from Late Antiquity to Early Modernity & Beyond’

Princeton University

Abstracts in the 2014 Symposium Program Booklet

Bennett, Adelaide (2014 Symposium)
Budny, Mildred (2014 Symposium)
Chazelle, Celia (2014 Symposium)
Clark, Frederic (2014 Symposium)
Clark, Gregory T. (2014 Symposium)
Davis, Michael T. (2014 Symposium)
Davis, Paul (2014 Symposium)
Easton, Martha E. (2014 Symposium)
Fernandez, Catherine (2014 Symposium)
Grafton, Antony (2014 Symposium)
Jacoby, Thomas (2014 Symposium)
Kaster, Robert A. (2014 Symposium)
McMahon, Madeline (2014 Symposium)
Morrison, Karl F. (2014 Symposium)
Reimitz, Helmut (2014 Symposium)
Skemer, Don C. (2014 Symposium)

Poster for 2014 Symposium at Princeton University on 'Recollections of the Past', with images courtesy of Adelaide Bennett. Poster laid out in RGME Bembino.

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2014
2014 Poster/Program for the Colloquium on 'When the Dust Has Settled, Or, When Good Scholars Go Back . . . ', laid out in RGME Bembino‘When the Dust Has Settled
Or, When Good Scholars Go Back . . . ‘

Princeton University

Abstracts in the 2014 Colloquium Program Booklet

Broderick, Herbert (2014 Colloquium)
Budny, Mildred (2014 Colloquium)
Davis, Michael (2014 Colloquium)
Emmerson, Richard K. (2014 Colloquium)
Jacoby, Thomas (2014 Colloquium)
Oliver, Judith (2014 Colloquium)

Plus ‘Exhibition Notes’ by Jessica L. Savage
for a concurrent exhibition at the Index of Christian Art

Savage, Jessica L. (2014 Colloquium)

2014 Poster/Program for the Colloquium on 'When the Dust Has Settled, Or, When Good Scholars Go Back . . . ', laid out in RGME Bembino

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2016
'Save the Date' Poster for the 2016 'Words & Deeds' Symposium at Princeton University, with 1 image from the Otto Ege Collection, The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Photography by Lisa Fagin Davis. Reproduced by permission. Poster set in RGME Bembino2016 Symposium on “Words & Deeds”
Princeton University

Abstracts in the 2016 Symposium Program Booklet

Bedos-Rezak, Brigitte M. (2016 Symposium)
Brown, Elizabeth A.R. (2016 Symposium)
Budny, Mildred (2016 Symposium)
Celantano, Sarah (2016 Symposium)
Clemens, Raymond (2016 Symposium)
Davis, Lisa Fagin (2016 Symposium)
Dummer, Jessica (2016 Symposium)
Gerson, Paula (2016 Symposium)
Kornbluth, Genevra (2016 Symposium)
Morrison, Karl F. (2016 Symposium)
— also Morrison, Karl F. (2016 Symposium Synopsis)
Philbin, Katherine (2016 Symposium)
Porter, Dot (2016 Symposium)
Ransom, Lynn (2016 Symposium)
Waldman, Thomas G. (2016 Symposium)
White, Andrew Walker (2016 Symposium)
White, Eric (2016 Symposium)

Plus ‘Exhibition Notes’ by Jessica L. Savage
for a current exhibition at the Index of Christian Art

Note: An augmentation of Karl F. Morrison’s Abstract in the 2016 Symposium Program Booklet now appears
in a reflective account of “Shaping a Symposium, Steps by Steps”:
Morrison, Karl F. (2016 Symposium Synopsis) .

'Save the Date' Poster for the 2016 'Words & Deeds' Symposium at Princeton University, with 1 image from the Otto Ege Collection, The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Photography by Lisa Fagin Davis. Reproduced by permission. Poster set in RGME Bembino

2016 Poster

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2019

Poster 2 for 219 Anniversary Symposium, with symposium information and 2 images of cropped initials, from 12th-century Latin manuscripts, from the Princeton University Art Museum.

Poster 2 for 2019 Symposium

2019 Symposium on “The Roads Taken”
Princeton University

Abstracts in the 2019 Symposium Program Booklet

Belluschi, Alessia (2019 Symposium)
Budny, Mildred (2019 Symposium)
Cashion, Debra Taylor (2019 Symposium)
Conrad, Michael A. (2019 Symposium)
Conrau–Lewis, Kylie (2019 Symposium)
Herdman, Kristen (2019 Symposium)
Malcolm, Aylin (2019 Symposium)
O’Driscoll, Joshua (2019 Symposium)
Palazzo, Éric (2019 Symposium)
Patkus, Ronald D. (2019 Symposium)
Porter, Dot (2019 Symposium)
Sorenson, David W. (2019 Symposium)
Weston, Judith (2019 Symposium)
White, Eric (2019 Symposium)

Poster 1 for 2019 Anniversary Symposium, with symposium information with images of manuscript and early printed pages..

2019 Symposium Poster 1

Poster 2 for 219 Anniversary Symposium, with symposium information and 2 images of cropped initials, from 12th-century Latin manuscripts, from the Princeton University Art Museum.

2019 Symposium Poster 2

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2020

2020 Spring Symposium
Princeton University
2019 Symposium on “The Roads Taken, or, The Obstacle Course”

[Event CANCELLED in March 2020]

We issue the 2020 Symposium Booklet (designed for distribution at the event) as a record of the aims for the Symposium

2020 Symposium "From Cover to Cover" Poster 2

2020 Symposium Poster 2

Abstracts by:

Bachman, Christine E. (2020 Symposium Booklet)
Budny, Mildred (2020 Symposium Booklet)
Clemens, Raymond (2020 Symposium Booklet)
Constantinou, Meghan (2020 Symposium Booklet)
Ellertson, Barbara Williams (2020 Symposium Booklet)
Herbert, Lynley Anne (2020 Symposium Booklet)
Koepke, Carson J. (2020 Symposium Booklet)
Light, Laura (2020 Symposium Booklet)
McQuillen, John T. (2020 Symposium Booklet)
Maisner, Bernard (2020 Symposium Booklet)
Minuzzi, Sabrina (2020 Symposium Booklet)
Patkus, Ronald D. (2020 Symposium Booklet)
Ransom, Lynn (2020 Symposium Booklet)
Savage, Jessica L. (2020 Symposium Booklet)
Sorenson, David W. (2020 Symposium Booklet)
Tuttle, Kelly (2020 Symposium Booklet)
White, Eric (2020 Symposium Booklet) — with 2 Abstracts

2020 Symposium "From Cover to Cover" Poster 1

2020 Symposium Poster 1

2020 Symposium "From Cover to Cover" Poster 2

2020 Symposium Poster 2

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2022 Spring and Autumn Symposia on “Structured Knowledge”

2022 Spring Symposium
Online (2 April 2022)
2022 Spring Symposium on “Structures of Knowledge”

All the Abstracts appear in the Symposium Program (2022 Spring Symposium on “Structures of Knowledge”).

Vassar College, Frederick Thompson Memorial Library, Entry, Ceiling and Gobelin Tapestry Series.

Bernhardt-House, Phillip
Brocato, Linde M.
Chandler, Katharine C.
Ellertson, Barbara Williams
German, Howard
Goeselt, Hannah
Hill, Thomas E.
Johnson, Eric J.
Kambour, Zoey
Porreca, David
Savage, Jessica L.
Smeltzer, Ronald K.
Sorenson, David W.

2022 Autumn Symposium on “Supports for Knowledge”

See 2022 Autumn Symposium on “Supports for Knowledge”.

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