2025 Autumn Symposium on 17-19 October: Program
October 11, 2025 in Announcements, Manuscript Studies, RGME Symposia
2025 Autumn Symposium
of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
“Readers, Fakers, and Re-Creators of Book:
From Page to Marketplace and Beyond”
Part 2 of 2 in the
2025 Spring and Autumn Symposia
Friday – Sunday, 17-19 October 2025
Online by Zoom
Preliminary Program
Overview
Day 1. Friday 17 October at 1:30 – 5:00 pm EDT (GMT -4)
Day 2. Saturday 18 October at 9:00 am – 5:00 pm EDT (GMT -4)
Day 3. Sunday 19 October at 10:30am – 12:00am EDT (GMT -4)
Registration
Symposium HomePage (information and updates)
Symposium Booklet (40-page illustrated booklet, available in two formats for printing)
- Consecutive pages (8 1/2″ × 11″)
- Foldable booklet (11″ × 17″ sheets)
Program
* = Research Group on Manuscript Evidence (Trustees, Associates, Consultants)
Day 1. Friday 17 October at 1:30 – 5:00 pm EDT (GMT -4)
Session 1. 1:30 – 3:00 pm
Session 1
“A Life Imprinted:
From Life to Words to Print”
Presider. * Beppy Landrum Owen (Council Member, Grolier Club; Trustee, Rare Book School; Graduate Student, Master of Liberal Studies Program, Rollins College)
Speaker
* Eve Kahn (Independent Scholar)
“A Life in Print:
Zoe Anderson Norris (1860-1914) and Her Millions of Autobiographical Words”
Note: Eve’s new book: Queen of Bohemia Predicts her Own Death: Gilded Age Journalist Zoe Anderson Norris (Fordham University Press, 2025)
Break. 3:00–3:30 pm
Session 2. 3:30 – 5:00 pm
Session 2
“Now You See It, Now You Don’t:
Forgeries at Work and Play”
Presider. * Beppy Landrum Owen
Speakers
Tara Peterson (Medieval Studies, University of York)
““The Spanish Forger: 19th-Century Medievalism and the Value of Forgery”
* Reid Byers (President of the Baxter Society and Author of:
The Private Library: The history of the Architecture and Furnishing of the Domestic Book Room;
and Imaginary Books: Lost, Unfinished, and Fictive Works Found Only in Other Books)
““Collecting the Imaginary and The Fortsas Affair”
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Day 2. Saturday 18 October at 9:00 am – 5:00 pm EDT (GMT -4)
Session 3. 9:00–10:30 am
Session 3
“Reading the Pages:
Witnesses Examined”
Presider. * N. Kıvılcım Yavuz (University of Leeds)
Speakers
Janie Wright (University of Leeds)
“A Textual Examination of Leeds, Leeds University Library, Ripon Cathedral Library MS 5:
Petrus Riga’s Aurora”
Mildred Budny
“Biblioclasts as ‘Editors’ and Re-Creators of Books:
A Scholar’s View of Otto F. Ege’s Oeuvre, Repurposing Specimens from Manuscripts and Printed Books”
Break. 10:30–11:00 am
Session 4. 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Session 4
“(Re)Writing the Classics:
William Henry Ireland AKA Shakespeare”
Presider. * David Porreca (Department of Classics, University of Waterloo)
Speaker
Jack Lynch (Department of English, Rutgers University)
“The Shakespeare Phantom:
William Henry Ireland and Manuscript Evidence”
Lunch Break. 12:30–1:30 pm
Session 5. 1:30 – 3:00 pm
Session 5
“Books and Their Agents/Agencies”
A Roundtable Discussion
Presider. * Justin Hastings (Research Group on Manuscript Evidence)
Panelists (Alphabetical Order)
* Mildred Budny
* Beppy Landrum Owen
* David Porreca
* N. Kıvılcım Yavuz
And Others . . .
Break. 3:00–3:30 pm
Session 6. 3:30 – 5:00 pm
Session 6
“Fashioning or Re-Fashioning Plates
and Scrap-Booking Stories”
Presider. * Jennifer Larson (Kent State University)
Speakers
Meghan Constantinou (Simmons University)
“Phoebe A. D. Boyle (1831-1923):
Work in Progress on a Forgotten Bibliophile”
* Beppy Landrum Owen
“More Tales from the Making of Andreas Vesalius’s Icones anatomicae:
A Progress Report for an Exhibition”
Irene Malfatto (Bruce McKittrick Rare Books, Philadelphia)
“Creating and Re-Creating Natural History in Early-Modern Europe:
The ‘Aldrovandi Scrapbook’ “
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Day 3. Sunday 19 October at 10:30 am – 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -4)
Session 7. 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Session 7
“Manuscript Remnants
Reused, Recovered, Collected, Reconsidered:
Agents and Agencies
in the History of Transmission”
Presider. * Hannah Goeselt (Massachusetts Historical Society Library)
Speakers
* David W. Sorenson (Allen G. Berman, Numismatist)
“Cahiers des Manuscrits Perdus:
From Codices to Covers via the French Revolution”
* Mildred Budny
And Others
Closing Remarks:
“Rounding out the Series of 2025 Spring and Autumn Symposia,
with a Preview of the 2025 RGME Colloquium on ‘Fragments’ ”
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Registration
For information and updates see the Symposium HomePage
Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University, Houghton Library, MS Typ 947, ‘verso’. Images via https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view/drs:6517512$1i.
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