Last updated: 12 Sept 2019
Hosted by the Sheffield Hallam Humanities Research Centre, in association with Sussex University, York St John University, The Centre for Printing History and Culture, The Stationer’s Company and the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
People of Print: Printers, Stationers and Booksellers, 1530-1830
12-14 September 2019
Sheffield Hallam University, Stoddart Building
Hosted by the Sheffield Hallam Humanities Research Centre, in association with the University of Sussex, York St John University, The Centre for Printing History and Culture, and the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
The conference takes place in the Stoddart Building, which is on Arundel Gate. Registration and information will take place on the ground floor near the cafe; panels and plenaries will take place in rooms immediately adjoining this space on the ground floor.
Thursday 12 September
10.00: REGISTRATION (ongoing throughout)
Stoddart building – ground floor entrance (Arundel Gate)
11.15: Opening Remarks
Kaley Kramer, Sheffield Hallam University, and Rachel Stenner, University of Sussex
11.30-12.30: Panel 1 – Printers and Humanism
Chair: Rachel Stenner, University of Sussex
Stoddart 7138
Andreas Ammann, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, ‘Competitors in Court: the case of Jerome Froben versus Gottfried Hittorp over a new edition of Josephus’
Jennifer Young, University of Greenwich, ‘Small Latin, Less Greek (but just enough poetry): Early Modern Stationers and the Grammar School Education’
Nathan Hunt, University of Leeds, ‘Transforming Translation: early modern publishers and the shaping of verse translation’
12.30-13.30: LUNCH
13.30-15.00:
Panel 2 – People in the Print Shops
Chair: Adam James Smith, York St John University
Stoddart 7138
Hazel Wilkinson, University of Birmingham, ‘The People of Printers’ Ornaments’
David Fallon, University of Roehampton, ‘Self-Realisation and the Bookshop: The experience of two early nineteenth-century booksellers’ apprentices’
Marco Condorelli, University of Central Lancashire, ‘History of spelling as a history of print: positional variation in Early Modern English books (1500-1700)’
Panel 3 – Shaping Discourse
Chair: Shirley Bell, Sheffield Hallam University
Stoddart 7139
Anya Tchoupakov, University of Edinburgh, ‘Cuntstruck: John Cleland and Eighteenth-Century Pornography’
Ben Higgins, University of Oxford, “Prudentia: the Jaggard publishing house’
Ines Vodopivec, Nova University Slovenia, ‘Printers: between European artisans and artists of the sixteenth century’
15.00-15.30: BREAK
15.30-17.00: Roundtable: Regional Print Trades
Chair: Adam James Smith, York St John University
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Helen Williams, Northumbria University
Sarah Griffin, York Minster Library and Archives (University of York)
David Atkinson, Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen
Kristoff Selesach, Plantin Moretus Museum
17.00-17.30: BREAK
17.30-19.00: KEYNOTE: DR LISA MARUCA, Wayne State University
Chair: Kaley Kramer, Sheffield Hallam University
Stoddart Lecture Theatre
Friday 13 September
The registration desk will be open from 9am
Stoddart building – ground floor entrance (Arundel Gate)
9.30-11.00: Panel 4 – Newcastle Print Culture
Chair: Rachel Stenner, University of Sussex
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Ruth Connolly, Newcastle University, ‘Bookselling in early modern Newcastle upon Tyne: William Corbett’s Trade from Evidence of the Probate Inventories’
Steph Carter and Kirsten Gibson, Newcastle University, ‘Evidence of the Sale and Consumption of Printed Music in Early Modern Newcastle upon Tyne’
Barbara Crosbie, University of Durham, ‘The Union Street Press in Newcastle upon Tyne: A Marriage Made in Print’
11-11.15: break
11.15-12.45:
Panel 5 – Market Practices
Chair: Adam James Smith, York St John University
Stoddart 7139
David Atkinson, Independent Scholar, ‘Thomas Sabine I and II: Cheap Print at the end of the Eighteenth Century
Charles Cathcart, Open University: ‘Joint Working: Hugh Perry and William Sheares “at their shop” in Britain’s Burse’
Holly Day, University of York, ‘Regional Rivalry in the Newcastle Memorandum Book Trade’
Panel 6 – Women and Print
Chair: Kaley Kramer, Sheffield Hallam University
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Valentina Falanga, Federico II University of Naples, and Lucrezia Signorello, La Sapienza University of Rome, ‘Women and the Press: Introduction of typography in Italian female convents’
Claire Danna, University of California-Berkeley, ‘“And as to my own Sex”: the Networks and Rhetoric of Unity between Female Stationers in the Seventeenth Century’
Christine Moog, Parsons School of Design, ‘Women, Printing, and Prosecution’
12.45-14.00: LUNCH
14.00-15.00:
Panel 7 – Secrets and Rituals
Chair: Adam James Smith, York St John University
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Kristof Selleslach, Museum Plantin-Moretus (Antwerp), ‘The Chapel of the Plantin Press: maintaining discipline through representative self-regulation’
Karen Waring, Bath Spa University, ‘The Company Rides Out: the book trade searches of 1566-7’
15.00-16.30: PLENARY: PROFESSOR JAMES RAVEN, University of Essex and Cambridge University
Stoddart Lecture Theatre
Chair: Rachel Stenner, University of Sussex
(coffee and tea available throughout plenary)
Saturday 14 September
Coffee and tea will be available from 9am
9.30-11am: Electronic Databases and the Book Trade: the British Book Trades Index, Centre for Printing History and Culture, the Stationers’ Company
Stoddart 7138
Chair: Rachel Stenner, University of Sussex
Ruth Frendo, Stationers’ Company
John Hinks, Centre for Print History and Culture
David Osbaldestin, Centre for Print History and Culture
11.00-11.30: BREAK
11.30-1pm:
Panel 8 – Transnational Networks
Chair: Jennifer Young, University of Greenwich
Stoddart 7139
Jesús Barrientos Mora, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, ‘Typography branching the seventeenth century: the Elzevir family-wide variety of trades’
Violaine Gourbet, University of Tours and Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, ‘German Booksellers and English Prints: A Transnational Network in the Nineteenth Century’
Helen Williams, Northumbria University, ‘Constantia Grierson Rides the Franchises’
Panel 9 – Print Trade Authorship
Chair: Shirley Bell, Sheffield Hallam University
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Rachel Stenner, University of Sussex, ‘Genres of Print trade Authorship: dialogue, manuals, life-writing’
Matthew Day, Anglia Ruskin University, ‘“But to whose charge shall I lay it? Your printer is all readie loaden”: the rhetoric of printers’ errors in early modern texts’
Ezra Horbury, University College London, ‘ “The chief point of the page”: Printers and Headings in Early Modern Bibles’
1pm: Lunch and closing discussion
Stoddart Lecture Theatre
Further details
Visit our website for more information: https://blog.yorksj.ac.uk/printculture/
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Conference hashtag: #PeopleofPrint
