[Please note: The schedule follows Eastern Standard Time]
Wednesday, November 17
Loss of and in Manuscripts
[Please note: * names in the Wednesday program have switched time slots]
10:00 -10:15 am Welcome & Introduction
Sean Quimby, Director, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Penn Libraries
Lynn Ransom, SIMS, Penn Libraries
10:15 am -12:15 pm
Joanna Fronska, Institute de Recherche et d’histoire des textes (CNRS), Paris-Aubervilliers
The Loss and Survival of Manuscripts from Chartres. For a History of the Cathedral Chapter Library
*Georgios Boudalis, Museum of Byzantine Culture, Thessaloniki
The Archeology of Loss: The Repair of Greek Codices between Byzantium and Modern Conservation
Kate Crosby, King's College London
Stemming the Disappearing Dharma: Manuscripts, Printing, and Meditation in Colonial Southeast Asia
Moderator: Lynn Ransom, SIMS Penn Libraries
12:15 - 1:00 pm Break and Viewing of Lightning Round Videos
1:00 - 2:30 pm
Elina Gertsman, Case Western Reserve University
Image and Loss: Sites of Generation
*Eyob Derillo, The British Library
The Lost Library of Maqdala
Moderator: Amey Hutchins, SIMS Penn Libraries
2:45 - 3:30 pm
Dot Porter, Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, Penn Libraries
Manuscript Loss in Digital Contexts
Thursday, November 18
Recovering and Remediating Loss
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Yunxiao Xiao, Princeton University
Reconstructing from the Disappeared: On the Recent Discovered Tsinghua Manuscripts
Kathryn Gerry, Bowdoin College
Put It in Writing (and Drawing): Issues of Loss and Preservation in the Work of Matthew Paris
Natalia Fantetti, Institute for English Studies, University of London
Forgotten but Not Gone: Writing Women into the History of the Medieval Manuscript Trade
Moderator: Nicholas Herman, SIMS Penn Libraries
12:00 - 1:30 pm Break and Viewing of Lightning Round Videos
1:30 - 3:30 pm
Susan Einbinder, University of Connecticut
Preaching in Times of Plague: Solomon Marini in the Paduan Ghetto (1630-31)
Sana Mirza, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Tracing Transregional Resonances: Harari Qur’anic Manuscripts as Testaments
Siân Echard, University of British Columbia
'Secure from the Ravages of Time’: Antiquarian Avatars of Medieval Manuscripts
Moderator: Dot Porter, SIMS Penn Libraries
Friday, November 19
Workshop Session
10:00 am - 11:30 am
Laura Cleaver, Olivia Baskerville, Federico Botana, Hannah Morcos, Pierre-Louis Pinault, Angéline Rais, Institute of English Studies, University of London
Lost provenance and What It Reveals about Manuscript Studies: Lessons from the CULTIVATE MSS Project
Reflections on Loss, Trauma, and Conflict
11:45 am - 1:15 pm
Matt Aiello, University of Pennsylvania
Expanding the Scope of Traumatic Testimony in Early England (and Beyond)
Heghnar Watenpaugh, University of California-Davis
Survivor Objects: How the Destruction of Art Shapes the History of Art
Moderator: Nicholas Herman, SIMS Penn Libraries
1:15 - 2:00 pm Break and Viewing of Lightning Round Videos
Keynote Address
2:00 - 3:00 pm
Elaine Treharne, Stanford University
The Senses and Seduction of Loss
Moderator: Matthew Aiello, University of Pennsylvania