The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 19.0651 Tuesday, 18 November 2008
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Date: Tuesday, 18 Nov 2008 15:22:50 -0500 (EST)
Subject: NEH Summer Seminar
NEH Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers
The Reformation of the Book: 1450-1650
John N. King and James K. Bracken of The Ohio State University will direct a
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College and University
Teachers on continuity and change in the production, dissemination, and reading
of Western European books during the 200 years following the advent of printing
with movable type. In particular, they plan to pose the governing question of
whether the advent of printing was a necessary precondition for the Protestant
Reformation. Participants will consider ways in which adherents of different
religious faiths shared common ground in exploiting elements such as book
layout, typography, illustration, and paratext (e.g., prefaces, glosses, and
commentaries) in order to inspire reading, but also to restrict interpretation.
Employing key methods of the History of the Book, our investigation will
consider how the physical nature of books affected ways in which readers
understood and assimilated their intellectual contents. This program is geared
to meet the needs of teacher-scholars interested in the literary, political, or
cultural history of the Renaissance and/or Reformation, the History of the Book,
art history, women's studies, religious studies, bibliography, print culture,
library science (including rare book librarians), mass communication, literacy
studies, and more.
This seminar will meet from 22 June until 24 July 2009. During the first week of
this program, we shall visit 1) Antwerp, Belgium, in order to draw on resources
including the Plantin-Moretus Museum (the world's only surviving early modern
printing and publishing house) and 2) London, England, in order to attend a
rare-book workshop and consider treasures at the British Library. During four
weeks at Oxford, where we shall reside at St. Edmund Hall, we plan to draw on
the rare book and manuscript holdings of the Bodleian Library and other
institutions.
Those eligible to apply include citizens of USA who are engaged in teaching at
the college or university level and independent scholars who have received the
terminal degree in their field (usually the Ph.D.). In addition, non-US citizens
who have taught and lived in the USA for at least three years prior to March
2009 are eligible to apply. NEH will provide participants with a stipend of $3,800.
Full details and application information are available at
http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/king2/Reformationofthebook/. For further
information, please contact
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. The application deadline is March
2, 2009.
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