*all events will take place on the University of Iowa campus, Iowa City. Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa-sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation in order to participate in this program, please contact Erin Hackathorn in advance at (319) 335-4034.
Friday 9 SEPTEMBER 2016 – 1-2:30pm / 2520-D UCC (University Capitol Centre)
Paul Dilley
Welcome and Opening Lecture
“From Roll to Codex? Christians, Manichaeans, and the Book across Late Antique Eurasia”
Department of Religious Studies/ Classics, University of Iowa
Friday 16 SEPTEMBER 2016 – 1-2:30pm / 2032 UI Main Library
Shai Secunda
“‘You May Not Communicate Oral Matters in Writing’: Writing and its Absence in the Transmission of Rabbinic and Zoroastrian Texts”
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Friday 4 NOVEMBER 2016 – 1-2:30pm / 2032 UI Main Library
Michael Friedrich
Universität Hamburg, Department of Chinese Language and Culture; Director, Research Group on the Manuscript Cultures of Asia, Africa, and Europe, Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures
Friday 18 NOVEMBER 2016 – 1-2:30pm / 2520-D UCC
Zsuzsanna Gulacsi
“From Picture Books to Illuminated Manuscripts: The Formation of Manichaean Book Culture in its Eurasian Context”
Department of Comparative Cultural Studies, Northern Arizona University
Friday 2 DECEMBER 2016 – 8:30am-4pm / 337 IMU Penn State Room (Iowa Memorial Union)
William Johnson
“From Bookroll to Codex”
Classical Studies, Duke University
8:30-10:00am
Susan Whitfield
“Beyond Scrolls and Codices: Manuscript Formats on the Eastern Silk Road”
Director, International Dunhuang Project, British Library
10:30am-12:00
Marina Rustow
Khedouri A. Zilkha Professor of Jewish Civilization in the Near East, Princeton University
1:00-2:30pm
Myriam Krutzsch
Aegyptisches Museum, Berlin
3:00-3:30pm
Mark Barnard
Senior Conservator Emeritus, British Library
3:30-4:00pm
Friday 16 DECEMBER 2016 – 10:30am-2:30pm / 2520-D UCC
TH Barrett
“The End of the Manuscript? Buddhism and Early Printing in Asia”
Professor Emeritus, Department of Religions and Philosophies, School of Oriental and African Studies, London
10:30am-12:00
Abdurishid Yakup
“Aspects of Old Uyghur Printed Texts: Corpus, Technique, Dating, Production, Use and Sponsoring”
Professor, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences; Distinguished Professor and Dean, School of Minority Languages and Literatures, Central University of Nationalities, Beijing
1-2:30pm
20 JANUARY 2017 – 10:30-2:30 / 2520-D UCC
Brent Seales
“From Damage to Discovery via Virtual Unwrapping: Reading the Scroll from En-Gedi”
Gill Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Kentucky
10:30-noon
Vito Mocella
“The Quest of Lost Ancient Literature: The Secrets of Herculaneum Papyri Revealed Through Synchrotron Based Techniques”
National Research Council, Rome
1-2:30pm
3 FEBRUARY 2017 – 10:30am-2:30pm / 2032 UI Main Library
Kevin van Bladel
“The Six Manuscript Traditions of the Sasanian Kingdom”
Associate Professor & Chair, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Ohio State University
10:30-noon
Johannes Preiser-Kappeller
“From Parchment to ‘Big Data’: Methods and Tools for a Computational History of Medieval Afro-Eurasia”
Researcher, Institute for Medieval Research, Division of Byzantine Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences
1-2:30pm
17 FEBRUARY 2017 – 10:30am-3:30pm / 2520-D UCC
Richard Salomon
“From Birch Bark to Palm Leaves: The Evolution of the Earliest Surviving Buddhist Manuscript Tradition”
Professor, Department of Asian Languages and Literature, University of Washington
10:30-noon
Justin McDaniel
“Tracing Pali and Thai Manuscripts from Japan to Ireland: Collections, Collectors, and Connections”
Professor and Chair, Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania
1-2:30pm
Jim Canary
Head of Conservation, Lilly Library, University of Indiana, Bloomington
3:00-3:30pm
10 MARCH 2017 – 1:00-2:30pm / 2520-D UCC
Sabine Schmidtke
Professor, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
31 MARCH 2017 – 10:30am-3:30pm / 2520-D UCC
AnneMarie Luijendijk
Professor, Department of Religion, Princeton University
10:30am-Noon
François Deroche
“The Arabic Manuscript Tradition”
Professor, Collège de France
1:00-2:30pm
Yasmeen Khan
Senior Rare Book Conservator, Library of Congress
3:00-3:30pm
14 APRIL 2017 – 10:30am-2:30pm / 2520-D UCC
Lynn Ransom “Manuscript Description in a Crowd-Sourced, Open-Access World: Problems and Perspectives from the New Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts Project”
Curator and Project Manager, Schoenberg Medieval Database Project, Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania
10:30am-Noon
Daniel Lord Smail
“Why do People Keep Things (including Manuscripts)?”
Professor of History, Harvard University
1:00-2:30pm
28 MARCH 2017 – 10:30am-Noon / 2520-D UCC
Erik Kwakkel
“Aristotle and the Medieval University: The Birth of a New Book Format”
University Lecturer, Universiteit Leiden
28 MARCH 2017 – 1:00-2:30pm / 2520-D UCC
Katherine Tachau “Piece-work and medieval university book production: the pecia” Professor of History, University of Iowa