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This conference is made possible by funding from the Evjue Foundation, the

Anonymous Fund, the Brittingham Trust, the Department of English, the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries, and the Information School.

Other major support for the Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture

comes from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, the Kemper Knapp Bequest, the University of Wisconsin Press, and

James P. Danky and Christine Schelshorn.

For twenty-five years, the Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture has promoted the interdisciplinary study of text, technology, and culture, with emphasis on people and groups at the periphery of power. The CHPDC is a collaboration of

the Information School, the Wisconsin Historical Society, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries. Jonathan Senchyne has been director since 2015, preceded by Greg Downey, Christine Pawley, James P. Danky, Wayne Wiegand,

and Carl Kaestle.

Locations: Registration, panels, and Saturday reception take place at the Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street, Madison, Wisconsin. Matthew Kirschenbaum’s Friday plenary takes place in room L160 of the Conrad A. Elvejem building, 800 University Avenue.

Friday, September 22 8:00- 9:00 a.m. Registration/Welcome, Vandeberg Auditorium, Room 121 8:00-8:45 a.m Registration

8:45-9:00 a.m. Welcome Plenary and Conference Opening:

Jonathan Senchyne (Director) Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Heather Wacha and Mark Vareschi University of Wisconsin-Madison

9:15 – 10:45 Session 1 1A Mediascapes of the Colonial Americas:

The Digital Materialities of New World Inscription Room 325

“Toward a Model for the Semantic Markup of Colonial American Maritime Texts” Clayton McCarl, University of North Florida Bibliographic Geographies: Sabin’s Bibliotheca Americana and the Database’s (National) Limits” Lindsay Van Tine, University of Pennsylvania and Swarthmore College “An Unexpected Influence: Photostat Machines in Colonial Libraries, 1895-1915” Hannah Alpert-Abrams, University of Texas at Austin “In Search of The Lieutenant Nun: Digital Archives and the History of a Book in Deep Time” Danielle C. Skeehan, Oberlin College

Chair: TBA 1B Making BH&DH Visible and Tangible on Campus, in the Library,

and in Research Room 326

Making Book History Visible in Digital Collections Barbara Laufersweile, University of Oklahoma

Textual Continuum: The Cabinet of Curiosity as Framework for Linking Book History and the Digital Humanities Jayme Yahr, University of St. Thomas

Creating a DH Community at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Laura Schmidt, University of Wisconsin-Madison Renaissance Books, Midwestern Libraries: Leveraging Digital Resources for Local Special Collections Andrew S. Keener, Northwestern University

Chair: TBA 1C Multimedia Participatory Cultures from the 18th through 21st Centuries Room 226

Video Made the Literary Star: An Exploration of the Terrain of Nerdfighteria Jennifer Burek Pierce, University of Iowa The Largest On-Air Book Club Ever: How Radio and Reader Response Made the Books of Jean Shepherd Matt Pierce, Indiana University

The Digital Networks of Romantic Participatory Culture Anna Tione Levine, Chair: TBA

10:45-11:15 Refreshment Break 11:15 – 12:45 Session 2 2A Digital Methods in African American and Civil War Print Cultures Room 325 Scattered Issues: Towards a Networked Approach to Antebellum Black Periodicals

Jim Casey, University of Delaware

Access and Stewardship: “Black Americana” in the Menil Collection Library Lauren Gottlieb-Miller, The Menil Collection

Mapping Agents of Antislavery Periodicals: Visualizing Distribution Networks and Examining Print Practices Invisible to the Bibliographic Entry Nathan Jérémie-Brink, Loyola University Chicago At War with Itself? The Multiple Modalities of Civil War Soldier Newspapers in the Digital Archive James Berkey, Penn State Brandywine

Chair: TBA

2B Digitizing the Materiality and Structure of Books Room 326 A Dialogue Over the Invisible: Hyperspectral Imaging Data as Common Ground for the Scholar and the Scientist Fenella France, Library of Congress, Alberto Campagnolo, Library of Congress Modeling and Visualizing Physical Manuscript Collation in Bibliotheca Philadelphiensis Dot Porter, University of Pennsylvania Building a Library of Stains from Medieval Manuscripts Erin Connelly, University of Pennsylvania Chair: TBA

2C Traces, Gaps, Losses, and the Digital Room 226

Tracing the Patterns of Creation in Early Modern Botany Books Mary Learner, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Reflections on Archival Loss: Theorizing Print in South Asian Literary Studies Sravanthi Kollu, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

On Typographic Ornaments in The Girl's Own Paper Gillian Mothersill, Ryerson University, Aaron Bowes, Ryerson University

"Which Books are Online?: Gaps in Digital Text Collections" Catherine Winters, University of Rhode Island, Clayton Michaud, University of Rhode Island Chair: TBA

12:45-1:45 Lunch on your own RADD (Recovering Analog and Digital Data) OPEN HOUSE DURING LUNCH

During the Friday lunch hour Dorothea Salo (University of Wisconsin-Madison iSchool) will be holding a drop-in open house at the award-winning data recovery and conversion lab that she founded and directs. Dorothea will answer questions about data recovery, building data recovery capacity and services, and allow conference-goers to check out the equipment.

RADD is located within the Information School Library on the fourth floor of nearby Helen C. White Hall. Easy visual directions to the Information School Library can be found in the first 30 seconds of this video: https://player.vimeo.com/video/187934937 Food is welcome in the iSchool Library.

Learn more about RADD here: https://radd.dsalo.info/

1:45-3:15 Session 3 3A Democratizing the Textbook: Perspectives in Book History and

the Digital Humanities Room 325

Open Access and the Quest for a Democratic Textbook Joseph Locke, University of Houston-Victoria Managing Mass Collaboration: The Construction of The American Yawp Ben Wright, University of Texas at Dallas A Democratic Enterprise: Textbook Authorship in the Twentieth Century Jordan M. Reed, Drew University

Chair and Respondent: Kim Gallon, Purdue University 3B Feedback Loops: A Roundtable Room 326

Scale and the Discipline: An Inventory of Particulars Jeffrey Todd Knight, University of Washington

Poetic Bibliography: Literary History at the Limits of the Catalogue Megan Heffernan, DePaul University

Cataloguing Shakespeare Adam Hooks, University of Iowa

Making TOPIC: Building a Database of Traces

Tara Lyons, Illinois State University Paradata, Metadata, and Missing Data in Mediocre Manuscripts Ron Reha, University of Wisconsin-Madison Metaphorized Ecologies and Digitized Humans Joshua Calhoun, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Chair: TBA 3C Postwar Information Cultures Room 226

Ideologies of Information from the Physical to the Digital Amanda Laugesen, Australian National Dictionary Centre at Australian National University

What If the Book In Your History Isn’t One? Book History, Digital Humanities and the Rescue Difficult Sources Stephanie Westcott, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media

Beyond the Galaxy & Through the Babbage Black Hole Jake Cowan, University of Texas at Austin

Chair: TBA 3:15-3:45 Break

3:45-5:15 Session 4

4A Roundtable: At the Limits of Book History and Digital Humanities Room 325

“Imaging’s blind spot: What we learn from digital facsimiles of early print” Sarah Werner, Independent Scholar Radical Publishing, Then/Now Whitney Trettien, University of Pennsylvania Little Bits of Paper Ryan Cordell, Northeastern University “Performing Book History in the Digital Present: A Musical Passage” Mary Caton Lingold, Virginia Commonwealth University “Encoding Encounter: Using Digital Tools to Reinvestigate Early American Narratives of Indigenous Encounter” David Medina, Northeastern University

Chair: TBA 4B BH&DH Pedagogies Room 326

Online Repositories, Digital Humanities Research Assignments and Undergraduate Skills: the View from the Library Charlotte Cubbage, Northwestern University

Building Narratives: Teaching Book History at a Public Comprehensive University Ross K. Tangedal, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point

From Book History to Digital Humanities and Back Again: Galileo’s Starry Messenger (1610) in the Classroom Robin E. Rider, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Florence C. Hsia, University of Wisconsin-Madison Chair: TBA

4C Reaching Back and Reaching Forward: Manuscript, Print, and Digital Room 226

Promoting Digital Access to Early Modern Manuscripts at UCLA’s Clark Library Philip S. Palmer, University of California, Los Angeles

Bodley 441, CCCC 140, and The Gospels of the Fower Euangelistes: Early Modern Editions of the Anglo-Saxon Gospels in Manuscript and Print Scott Bevill, University of Tennessee Additional Panelist TBA

Chair: TBA

5:30-7:00 Keynote Lecture Conrad A. Elvejem Building, Room L160 (800 University Ave) Post Scripts: Graphologies of Bookmaking After Adobe Matthew Kirschenbaum, University of Maryland

Saturday, September 23 9:00-10:30 Session 5

5A Reshaping Publishing –Collaborative Multimodal Approaches to the Humanities Monograph 2.0 Room 325

Don’t Discard the Baby With the Bathwater: Rethinking Humanities Research and Publishing in the Age of DH David Phillips, Wake Forest University

Keeping the H in DH: Opportunities for DH Research Teams to Bridge Scholarship and Publishing Carrie Johnston, Wake Forest University

“Monograph Publishing at the Crossroads: The Humanities Center as Publishing Makerspace Sylvia Miller, Duke University

Chair: TBA

5B New Tools Demonstrations Room 326 Artists’ Books in the Digital: Interpreting 3D Rendered Artists’ Books in Libraries and

Digital Humanities with Remake and SketchFab Hannah Hacker, University of Iowa, Jenna Silver-Baustian, University of Iowa

Collating the Canterbury Tales: A Demonstration of the VisColl Application Laura Mitchell, University of Toronto, Monica Ung, University of Toronto "Granular, Citational and Persistent: Future Models of Digital Scholarship in the Digital Maxima

Resource" Martin Foys, University of Wisconsin-Madison Chair: TBA

5C The Legacies of Paper Room 226

Paper Electronic Literature: Examples from the History of Interactive Fiction Richard Gibson, Wheaton College

James Joyce’s Paper Database Kent Emerson, The University of Tulsa

Digital Media: Possibilities and Limitations for the realization of Textual and Bibliographical meanings María Camila Palacio Chiriví, Loyola University Chicago Chair: TBA

10:30-11:00 Refreshment Break 11:00-12:30 Session 6

6A Visualizing Empire: Visualization Tools and the Graduate Seminar Room 325

Rereading Bartram’s Lists Digitally Kacey Stewart, University of Delaware

Gardens from First to Last: Distant Reading Elizabeth Gaskell Samantha Nystrom, University of Delaware

Systems of Circulation in Henry IV Matthew J. Rinkevich, University of Delaware

Chair: Edward Larkin, University of Delaware

6B The History of Reading in the Twenty First Century Room 326

How to Rate a Book: Social Media, Taste, and Reading Culture in the 21st Century Dylan Burns, Utah State University

Database Reading: Scholars at Screens and the History of the Book Steven Weiland, Michigan State University The Art of the Ghost: Manipulation and Gaming of Readership Data and Authorial Reputations Jo Ann Oravec, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Dorothy, Digital Discoverability, and the Phenomenology of Publishing

Jordan S. Carroll, University of California, Davis Chair: TBA

6C Beyond and Between the Book: Genres, Format, and Versions at Large Scale Room 226

“What’s in the Binding?: Reflections on Digitizing Millions of Pages of Movie and Broadcasting Magazines” Eric Hoyt, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Large Scale Computational Methods for the Printed Book Review: A “Data Lifecycle” Approach Matthew Lavin, University of Pittsburgh

Versioning, Bibliography, and the Evolving Digital Edition

Paul A. Broyles, North Carolina State University Chair: TBA

12:30-1:30 Lunch on your own

1:30-3:00 Session 7

7A Editing Dante and Petrarch Between Print and Digital Room 325 Dante's Convivio between print and digital culture Beatrice Arduini, University of Washington

Mapping the Production History of Dante's Commedia: New Visualization Developments Francesco Marco Aresu, Wesleyan University, Matthew Collins, Harvard University, James Yamada, MIT Collaborative digital editing: re-visualizing Petrarch’s Fragmenta Isabella Magni, The Newberry Library Chair: TBA

7B Spaces, Networks, and Maps Room 326

Benjamin Franklin’s Database: Mapping the Post Office by Book Christy Pottroff, Merrimack College

“The Mellon Sawyer Digital Mapping Project: Tracing Manuscript Production and Exchange in the Premodern World” Paul Dilley, University of Iowa, Melissa Moreton, University of Iowa

Mapping the Modernist Archives Publishing Project Matthew N. Hannah, University of Iowa Social Network Analysis and Medieval Maps Heather Wacha, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Jacob Levernier, University of Pennsylvania

Chair: TBA

3:00-3:30 Refreshment Break

3:30-5:00 Session 8

8A Infrastructures of the Book Room 325 Codex, Ludex, Novel: Iterations of the Book Across Archives and Upgrade Paths Caleb Milligan, University of Florida

The Library as City – the City as Library Thomas Kohlwein

Wheels Within Wheels: Theorizing Extended Paratext through House of Leaves and S. Stephen Taylor Marsh, Brown University Eighteenth-Century Empire and Encyclopedic Ambitions Katherine Calvin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Chair: TBA

8B Historical Datasets and Information Structures Room 326

“the price of everything...”: Book Prices at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Chris Forster, Syracuse University

William Ramsay’s World: A Digital Approach to Consumer Goods and Trade in Early America Ann Smart Martin, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Morgan Lemmer-Webber, University of Wisconsin-Madison

The Cabinet and the Archive: Collecting Objects and Texts in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia Reed Gochberg, Amherst College

Chair: TBA

5:00 – 7:00 Closing Reception, Pyle Center Alumni Lounge