Library & Information History

Wednesday 27 June 2012
14 SHARP
11.30am-1.00pm Parallel Sessions 5.1- 5.7
Session 5.1:
Written and Scribal Culture
Chair: Tim Cassedy (Southern Methodist University)
Location: Emmet Theatre, Arts Building
Minna Nevala (University of Helsinki) Tracing the truth: Letters and letter editions
censored
Aileen Douglas (Trinity College Dublin) Being graphic: An account of eighteenth-century
script in print
Martyn Lyons (University of New South Wales) The power of the scribe: Delegated writing
in modern Europe
Session 5.2: African American readers of the past:
Interpreting traces
Chair: Ezra Greenspan (Southern Methodist University)
Location: Synge Theatre, Arts Building
Carla L. Peterson (University of Maryland) Circulating friendship: Black women’s
friendship albums in the Antebellum North
Ellen Gruber Garvey (New Jersey City University) Creating unwritten histories and
speaking back to the white press: African American newspaper clipping scrapbooks
Barbara Hochman (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) Nella Larsen’s booklist
Session 5.3:
Economic Imperatives for Women’s Writing
Chair: Suzan van Dijk (Huygens ING, The Netherlands)
Location: Neill/Hoey Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub Building
Marie Nedregotten Sørbø (Volda University College, Norway) Fighting for her profession:
Dorothe’s discourse of self-defence
Carme Font Paz (Universitat Antònoma de Barcelona, Spain) ‘The Cure of the Kingdome’:
Defending female authorship in Elizabeth Poole’s A Vision (1648)
Nina Geerdink (Radbound University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) The role of female
publishers in the increase of women’s participation in commercial genres