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MRGSA Annual Symposium: "Modalities of Premodern Media"

Poster
October 22, 2021
2:00PM - 7:00PM
Zoom

Date Range
Add to Calendar 2021-10-22 14:00:00 2021-10-22 19:00:00 MRGSA Annual Symposium: "Modalities of Premodern Media" MRGSA Annual Symposium: Modalities of Premodern Media Friday-Saturday, October 22-23, 2021 Online via Zoom (https://osu.zoom.us/j/98428106173?pwd=NGJ3SXcxSk1VdlNlK3Btb24vMC9HUT09) Meeting ID: 984 2810 6173 Password: 322801 Event Schedule: Friday, October 22 Panel 1: Interfaces of Sight, Sound, and Text (2:00 - 3:30pm) Danielle Ryle (Pennsylvania State University) - “Spelling Out Alliances: Variant English as International Rhetoric in Early Modern Practical Miscellanies”  Laurel Burggraf Bassett  (University of Maryland) - “Turning Up the Volume in Ossian’s Fingal: A Digital Intervention for Oral and Manuscript Sources”  Kaylee Faye Kelley (New York University) - "Florentine Femininity: Books of Hours and Visions of Laura in 16th Century Portraiture"  Keynote Lecture: “Early Modern Metadata,” given by Dr. Whitney Trettien, UPenn (4:00 - 5:30 pm) How did early modern readers organize information about the past? Lacking tools like short-title catalogues, the ability to photograph research collections, or relatively recent innovations like digital databases, they often saved fragments of earlier media. And, intuitively, this makes sense. Small and plentiful, these scraps were easily stored in portfolios or shared through the post and thus facilitated the rapid dissemination of knowledge across global networks of amateur media historians. They were also cheap, even free; and although each individual piece might be worth little, in the aggregate these fragments accrued financial and, more importantly, historical value.  This talk considers the question of early modern metadata by turning to the collecting habits of one late-seventeenth-century man: John Bagford. A shoemaker-turned-bibliographer, Bagford voraciously collected anything related to the history of literature, language, and books, from fragments of medieval parchment to ream wrappers. Among the his hundreds of volumes of fragments now at the British Library are several that contain torn-out title pages. Collectively, these form a kind of material short-title catalogue, a physical STC made from the literal imprints of books. This talk will address Bagford’s early modern digital humanities work and my own contemporary efforts to create digital editions of his remarkable scrapbooks.  Register for Zoom access to Dr. Trettien’s lecture here: https://cmrs.osu.edu/events/mrgsa-cmrs-lecture-whitney-trettien-university-pennsylvania Virtual Reception (5:30 - 7:00pm) Dr. Trettien's talk will be followed by a virtual reception. Please feel free to grab whatever beverage (or snacks) will make you happy! Saturday, October 23rd  Codicology Workshop with Dr. Eric Johnson, Associate Professor and Curator of Thompson Special Collections at Ohio State (9:00 - 11:00am). Preregistration required Registration at this link https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc5u9MqZoxdK2lvtmD8rNoPwc0S0XeYaik7ZMliKUCCqRn9IA/viewform to receive the Zoom meeting room link. (registration is closed) **Workshop will be postponed** Registration Capacity: 20, but we will consider expanding it if more graduate students are interested in it. Panel 2: Mapping Topophilia of Space and Place  (12:30 - 2:00pm) Juan Fernando León (Northwestern University) - “The Shape of Water: Recreating the Spatio-Cultural History of Lisbon’s Early Modern Bluespaces”  Brittany Forniotis (Duke University) - “Maps, Views, and Choreographies: An Examination of the Depiction of Place and Monuments in the Civitates Orbis Terrarum"  Yelsy Hernández Zamora (Yale University) - "Playing with death: Visual Poetry in seventeenth-century Spanish Funeral Broadsheets.”   Zoom Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies cmrs@osu.edu America/New_York public
October 23, 2021
9:00AM - 2:00PM
Zoom

Date Range
Add to Calendar 2021-10-23 09:00:00 2021-10-23 14:00:00 MRGSA Annual Symposium: "Modalities of Premodern Media" MRGSA Annual Symposium: Modalities of Premodern Media Friday-Saturday, October 22-23, 2021 Online via Zoom (https://osu.zoom.us/j/98428106173?pwd=NGJ3SXcxSk1VdlNlK3Btb24vMC9HUT09) Meeting ID: 984 2810 6173 Password: 322801 Event Schedule: Friday, October 22 Panel 1: Interfaces of Sight, Sound, and Text (2:00 - 3:30pm) Danielle Ryle (Pennsylvania State University) - “Spelling Out Alliances: Variant English as International Rhetoric in Early Modern Practical Miscellanies”  Laurel Burggraf Bassett  (University of Maryland) - “Turning Up the Volume in Ossian’s Fingal: A Digital Intervention for Oral and Manuscript Sources”  Kaylee Faye Kelley (New York University) - "Florentine Femininity: Books of Hours and Visions of Laura in 16th Century Portraiture"  Keynote Lecture: “Early Modern Metadata,” given by Dr. Whitney Trettien, UPenn (4:00 - 5:30 pm) How did early modern readers organize information about the past? Lacking tools like short-title catalogues, the ability to photograph research collections, or relatively recent innovations like digital databases, they often saved fragments of earlier media. And, intuitively, this makes sense. Small and plentiful, these scraps were easily stored in portfolios or shared through the post and thus facilitated the rapid dissemination of knowledge across global networks of amateur media historians. They were also cheap, even free; and although each individual piece might be worth little, in the aggregate these fragments accrued financial and, more importantly, historical value.  This talk considers the question of early modern metadata by turning to the collecting habits of one late-seventeenth-century man: John Bagford. A shoemaker-turned-bibliographer, Bagford voraciously collected anything related to the history of literature, language, and books, from fragments of medieval parchment to ream wrappers. Among the his hundreds of volumes of fragments now at the British Library are several that contain torn-out title pages. Collectively, these form a kind of material short-title catalogue, a physical STC made from the literal imprints of books. This talk will address Bagford’s early modern digital humanities work and my own contemporary efforts to create digital editions of his remarkable scrapbooks.  Register for Zoom access to Dr. Trettien’s lecture here: https://cmrs.osu.edu/events/mrgsa-cmrs-lecture-whitney-trettien-university-pennsylvania Virtual Reception (5:30 - 7:00pm) Dr. Trettien's talk will be followed by a virtual reception. Please feel free to grab whatever beverage (or snacks) will make you happy! Saturday, October 23rd  Codicology Workshop with Dr. Eric Johnson, Associate Professor and Curator of Thompson Special Collections at Ohio State (9:00 - 11:00am). Preregistration required Registration at this link https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc5u9MqZoxdK2lvtmD8rNoPwc0S0XeYaik7ZMliKUCCqRn9IA/viewform to receive the Zoom meeting room link. (registration is closed) **Workshop will be postponed** Registration Capacity: 20, but we will consider expanding it if more graduate students are interested in it. Panel 2: Mapping Topophilia of Space and Place  (12:30 - 2:00pm) Juan Fernando León (Northwestern University) - “The Shape of Water: Recreating the Spatio-Cultural History of Lisbon’s Early Modern Bluespaces”  Brittany Forniotis (Duke University) - “Maps, Views, and Choreographies: An Examination of the Depiction of Place and Monuments in the Civitates Orbis Terrarum"  Yelsy Hernández Zamora (Yale University) - "Playing with death: Visual Poetry in seventeenth-century Spanish Funeral Broadsheets.”   Zoom Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies cmrs@osu.edu America/New_York public

MRGSA Annual Symposium: Modalities of Premodern Media

Friday-Saturday, October 22-23, 2021

Online via Zoom (https://osu.zoom.us/j/98428106173?pwd=NGJ3SXcxSk1VdlNlK3Btb24vMC9HUT09)

Meeting ID: 984 2810 6173

Password: 322801


Event Schedule:

Friday, October 22

Panel 1: Interfaces of Sight, Sound, and Text (2:00 - 3:30pm)

Danielle Ryle (Pennsylvania State University) - “Spelling Out Alliances: Variant English as International Rhetoric in Early Modern Practical Miscellanies” 

Laurel Burggraf Bassett  (University of Maryland) - “Turning Up the Volume in Ossian’s Fingal: A Digital Intervention for Oral and Manuscript Sources” 

Kaylee Faye Kelley (New York University) - "Florentine Femininity: Books of Hours and Visions of Laura in 16th Century Portraiture" 

Keynote Lecture: “Early Modern Metadata,” given by Dr. Whitney Trettien, UPenn (4:00 - 5:30 pm)

How did early modern readers organize information about the past? Lacking tools like short-title catalogues, the ability to photograph research collections, or relatively recent innovations like digital databases, they often saved fragments of earlier media. And, intuitively, this makes sense. Small and plentiful, these scraps were easily stored in portfolios or shared through the post and thus facilitated the rapid dissemination of knowledge across global networks of amateur media historians. They were also cheap, even free; and although each individual piece might be worth little, in the aggregate these fragments accrued financial and, more importantly, historical value. 

This talk considers the question of early modern metadata by turning to the collecting habits of one late-seventeenth-century man: John Bagford. A shoemaker-turned-bibliographer, Bagford voraciously collected anything related to the history of literature, language, and books, from fragments of medieval parchment to ream wrappers. Among the his hundreds of volumes of fragments now at the British Library are several that contain torn-out title pages. Collectively, these form a kind of material short-title catalogue, a physical STC made from the literal imprints of books. This talk will address Bagford’s early modern digital humanities work and my own contemporary efforts to create digital editions of his remarkable scrapbooks. 

Register for Zoom access to Dr. Trettien’s lecture here: https://cmrs.osu.edu/events/mrgsa-cmrs-lecture-whitney-trettien-university-pennsylvania

Virtual Reception (5:30 - 7:00pm)

Dr. Trettien's talk will be followed by a virtual reception. Please feel free to grab whatever beverage (or snacks) will make you happy!


Saturday, October 23rd 

Codicology Workshop with Dr. Eric Johnson, Associate Professor and Curator of Thompson Special Collections at Ohio State (9:00 - 11:00am). Preregistration required

Registration at this link https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc5u9MqZoxdK2lvtmD8rNoPwc0S0XeYaik7ZMliKUCCqRn9IA/viewform to receive the Zoom meeting room link. (registration is closed)

**Workshop will be postponed**

Registration Capacity: 20, but we will consider expanding it if more graduate students are interested in it.

Panel 2: Mapping Topophilia of Space and Place  (12:30 - 2:00pm)

Juan Fernando León (Northwestern University) - “The Shape of Water: Recreating the Spatio-Cultural History of Lisbon’s Early Modern Bluespaces” 

Brittany Forniotis (Duke University) - “Maps, Views, and Choreographies: An Examination of the Depiction of Place and Monuments in the Civitates Orbis Terrarum

Yelsy Hernández Zamora (Yale University) - "Playing with death: Visual Poetry in seventeenth-century Spanish Funeral Broadsheets.”