{"id":20677,"date":"2025-10-11T20:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T20:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/?p=20677"},"modified":"2025-10-16T23:59:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T23:59:47","slug":"2025-autumn-symposium-on-17-19-october-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2025-autumn-symposium-on-17-19-october-program\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 Autumn Symposium on 17-19 October: Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2025-rgme-autumn-symposium-on-readers-fakers-and-re-creators-of-books\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2025-rgme-autumn-symposium-on-readers-fakers-and-re-creators-of-books\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1760137507270000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2Z8e45RH60-0GZJOMszzZs\">2025 Autumn Symposium<\/a><br \/>\nof the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence<\/h3>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cReaders, Fakers, and Re-Creators of Book:<br \/>\nFrom Page to Marketplace and Beyond\u201d<\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Part 2 of 2 in the<br \/>\n2025 Spring and Autumn Symposia<\/h2>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Friday &#8211; Sunday, 17-19 October 2025<br \/>\nOnline by Zoom<\/h4>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Preliminary Program<\/h1>\n<h3>Overview<\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Day 1<\/strong>. Friday 17 October at\u00a0 1:30 &#8211; 5:00 pm EDT (GMT -4)<br \/>\n<strong>Day 2<\/strong>. Saturday 18 October at 9:00 am &#8211; 5:00 pm EDT (GMT -4)<br \/>\n<strong>Day 3<\/strong>. Sunday 19 October at 10:30am \u2013 12:00am EDT (GMT -4)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Registration<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/2025-rgme-autumn-symposium-tickets-1236732924469\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2025 RGME Autumn Symposium Registration<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Symposium HomePage <\/strong>(information and updates)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2025-rgme-autumn-symposium-on-readers-fakers-and-re-creators-of-books\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2025 RGME Autumn Symposium on Readers, Fakers, and Re-Creators of Books<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Symposium Booklet<\/strong> (40-page illustrated booklet, available in two formats for printing)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/download\/20765\/?tmstv=1760657269\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Consecutive pages<\/a> (8 1\/2&#8243; \u00d7 11&#8243;)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/download\/20767\/?tmstv=1760657331\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Foldable booklet<\/a> (11&#8243; \u00d7 17&#8243; sheets)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-20601 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Autumn2025-Poster-Standard-v3-with-border.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"616\" height=\"796\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Autumn2025-Poster-Standard-v3-with-border.png 616w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Autumn2025-Poster-Standard-v3-with-border-232x300.png 232w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Autumn2025-Poster-Standard-v3-with-border-116x150.png 116w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Program<\/h2>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\"><strong>*<\/strong> = Research Group on Manuscript Evidence (Trustees, Associates, Consultants)<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Day 1<\/strong>. <strong>Friday 17 October<\/strong> at\u00a0 1:30 &#8211; 5:00 pm EDT (GMT -4)<\/h3>\n<h4>Session 1. 1:30 \u2013 3:00 pm<\/h4>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Session 1<br \/>\n&#8220;A Life Imprinted:<br \/>\nFrom Life to Words to Print&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Presider<\/em>. <strong>*<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Beppy Landrum Owen<\/strong> (Council Member, Grolier Club; Trustee, Rare Book School; Graduate Student, Master of Liberal Studies Program, Rollins College)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Speaker<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>* Eve Kahn<\/strong> (Independent Scholar)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">&#8220;A Life in Print:<br \/>\nZoe Anderson Norris (1860-1914) and Her Millions of Autobiographical Words&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\">Note: Eve&#8217;s new book: <a href=\"https:\/\/fordhampress.com\/queen-of-bohemia-predicts-own-death-hb-9781531511678.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Queen of Bohemia Predicts her Own Death: Gilded Age Journalist Zoe Anderson Norris<\/a> (Fordham University Press, 2025)<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Break<\/strong>. 3:00\u20133:30 pm<\/h4>\n<h3>Session 2. 3:30 \u2013 5:00 pm<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Session 2<br \/>\n&#8220;Now You See It, Now You Don&#8217;t:<br \/>\nForgeries at Work and Play&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Presi<span style=\"color: #000000;\">der<\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">.<strong> * Beppy Landrum Owen<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Speakers<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Tara Peterson<\/strong> (Medieval Studies, University of York)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">&#8220;\u201cThe Spanish Forger: 19th-Century Medievalism and the Value of Forgery&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">* <strong>Reid Byers<\/strong> (President of the Baxter Society and Author of:<br \/>\n<em>The Private Library: The history of the Architecture and Furnishing of the Domestic Book Room;<br \/>\n<\/em> and <em>Imaginary Books: Lost, Unfinished, and Fictive Works Found Only in Other Books<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">&#8220;\u201cCollecting the Imaginary and The Fortsas Affair\u201d<\/p>\n<p>*****************<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Day 2<\/strong>. Saturday 18 October at 9:00 am &#8211; 5:00 pm EDT (GMT -4)<\/h3>\n<h3><strong>Session 3<\/strong>. 9:00\u201310:30 am<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Session 3<br \/>\n&#8220;Reading the Pages:<br \/>\nWitnesses Examined&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Presider<\/em>. <strong>*<\/strong> <strong>N. K\u0131v\u0131lc\u0131m Yavuz<\/strong> (University of Leeds)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Speakers<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><strong>Janie Wright<\/strong> (University of Leeds)<br \/>\n&#8220;A Textual Examination of Leeds, Leeds University Library, Ripon Cathedral Library MS 5:<br \/>\nPetrus Riga\u2019s <em>Aurora&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><strong>Mildred Budny<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8220;Biblioclasts as &#8216;Editors&#8217; and Re-Creators of Books:<br \/>\nA Scholar&#8217;s View of Otto F. Ege&#8217;s <em>Oeuvre,<\/em> Repurposing Specimens from Manuscripts and Printed Books&#8221;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Break<\/strong>. 10:30\u201311:00 am<\/h4>\n<h4>Session 4. 11:00 am \u2013 12:30 pm<\/h4>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Session 4<br \/>\n&#8220;(Re)Writing the Classics:<br \/>\nWilliam Henry Ireland AKA Shakespeare&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Presider<\/em>. <strong>* <span style=\"color: #000000;\">David Porreca <\/span><\/strong>(Department of Classics, University of Waterloo)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Speaker<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><strong>Jack Lynch <\/strong>(Department of English, Rutgers University)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">&#8220;The Shakespeare Phantom:<br \/>\nWilliam Henry Ireland and Manuscript Evidence&#8221;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Lunch Break<\/strong>. 12:30\u20131:30 pm<\/h4>\n<h4>Session 5. 1:30 \u2013 3:00 pm<\/h4>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Session 5<br \/>\n&#8220;Books and Their Agents\/Agencies&#8221;<br \/>\nA Roundtable Discussion<\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Presider<\/em>. <strong>*<\/strong> <strong>Justin Hastings<\/strong> (Research Group on Manuscript Evidence)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Panelists (Alphabetical Order)<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>* Mildred Budny<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>* Beppy Landrum Owen<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> * David Porreca<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> * N. K\u0131v\u0131lc\u0131m Yavuz<\/strong><br \/>\nAnd Others . . .<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Break<\/strong>. 3:00\u20133:30 pm<\/h4>\n<h4>Session 6. 3:30 \u2013 5:00 pm<\/h4>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Session 6<br \/>\n&#8220;Fashioning or Re-Fashioning Plates<br \/>\nand Scrap-Booking Stories&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Presider<\/em>. <strong>*<\/strong> <strong>Jennifer Larson<\/strong> (Kent State University)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Speakers<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><strong>Meghan Constantinou <\/strong>(Simmons University)<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\">&#8220;Phoebe A. D. Boyle (1831-1923):<br \/>\nWork in Progress on a Forgotten Bibliophile&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><strong>* Beppy Landrum Owen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cMore Tales from the Making of Andreas Vesalius\u2019s <i>Icones anatomicae<\/i>:<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A Progress Report for an Exhibition\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><strong>Irene Malfatto<\/strong> (Bruce McKittrick Rare Books, Philadelphia)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\">&#8220;Creating and Re-Creating Natural History in Early-Modern Europe:<br \/>\nThe &#8216;Aldrovandi Scrapbook&#8217; &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>*****************<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Day 3<\/strong>. Sunday 19 October at 10:30 am \u2013 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -4)<\/h3>\n<h4>Session 7. 10:30 am \u2013 12:00 pm<\/h4>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Session 7<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;Manuscript Remnants<br \/>\nReused, Recovered, Collected, Reconsidered:<br \/>\nAgents and Agencies<br \/>\nin the History of Transmission&#8221;<\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Presider<\/em>. <strong>*<\/strong> <strong>Hannah Goeselt<\/strong> (Massachusetts Historical Society Library)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Speakers<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>* David W. Sorenson <\/strong>(Allen G. Berman, Numismatist)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">&#8220;<em>Cahiers des Manuscrits Perdus<\/em>:<br \/>\nFrom Codices to Covers via the French Revolution&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">* <strong>Mildred Budny<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>And Others<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">Closing Remarks:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">\u201cRounding out the Series of 2025 Spring and Autumn Symposia,<br \/>\nwith a Preview of the 2025 RGME Colloquium on \u2018Fragments\u2019\u200a\u200a\u201d<\/p>\n<p>*************<\/p>\n<p><strong>Registration<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/2025-rgme-autumn-symposium-tickets-1236732924469\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2025 RGME Autumn Symposium Registration<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For information and updates see the <strong>Symposium HomePage<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2025-rgme-autumn-symposium-on-readers-fakers-and-re-creators-of-books\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2025 RGME Autumn Symposium on Readers, Fakers, and Re-Creators of Books<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_20746\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20746\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-20746 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/tumblr_n15bmtPPh51s83h8do2_1280-1024x859.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"859\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/tumblr_n15bmtPPh51s83h8do2_1280-1024x859.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/tumblr_n15bmtPPh51s83h8do2_1280-300x252.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/tumblr_n15bmtPPh51s83h8do2_1280-150x126.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/tumblr_n15bmtPPh51s83h8do2_1280-768x644.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/tumblr_n15bmtPPh51s83h8do2_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-20746\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University, Houghton Library, MS Typ 947, &#8216;verso&#8217;. 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