Our Conference Programme: 17-18 April 2023, University of Stirling
We are very excited this week to release the programme for the forthcoming Books and Borrowing conference, held as part of the Libraries, Lives and Legacies Research Festival, at the University of Stirling on 17th and 18th April of this year.
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If you are not giving a paper but would like to be notified when registration opens, please contact Katie Halsey (katherine.halsey@stir.ac.uk) directly.
Programme
Download here (Word): Books and Borrowing Conference Programme Final-1
| Time | Place | Event | Place | Event |
| Monday 17 April | ||||
| 9:00 | Foyer, Iris Murdoch Building | Registration | ||
| 9:30 | Main Lecture Theatre | Welcome
Demonstration of the ‘Books and Borrowing’ Database |
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| 10:30 | Foyer | Tea | ||
| 11:00 | Room 1 | Panel 1a: Reading Practices in Non-Institutional Spaces
Tim Pye, Had; Lent; Returned: Borrowing from the Country House Library Abigail Williams, ‘I myself chose Bruton Saturdays’: Mapping Non Elite Book Use in Rural Settings Melanie Bigold, Establishing Book Legacies: Collecting and Bequeathing ‘Her Books’ Sam Bailey, The Circulation and Reading of Erotic Books in Coffee-House Libraries |
Room 2 | Panel 1b: Institutional Libraries
Kit Baston, The Advocates Library and the Writing of History Zachary Brookman, Building the Bürgerbibliothek: Donating to the Zurich Public Library in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Gerard Lee McKeever, French Historians and Narratives of Literary History Maximiliaan van Woudenberg, English Texts at Home and Abroad: Book Circulation and Reading Habits in Research, Subscription, and College Libraries
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| 13:00 | Foyer | Lunch | ||
| 14:00 | Room 1 | Panel 2a: Circulation
Angela Esterhammer, Reading Piecemeal: John Galt’s Miscellaneous Publishing Ventures Cleo O’Callaghan Yeoman, ‘Still my ardent sensibility led me back to novels’: Metaphors of Reading, 1760-1820 Amy Solomons, ‘Counted over my books and found I had about 800 here already’ (1830): Anne Lister’s Reading Spaces and Experiences Charley Matthews, Reading and Reviews as Sites of Gendered Power for David ‘Doddy’ Lyndsay (1790-1830) and Anne Lister (1791-1840) |
Room 2 | Panel 2b: Private and Religious Libraries
Michelle Craig, Discovering Dr William Hunter’s Use of Books: Antiquarianism and Reading within the Hunterian Library Natasha Simonova, ‘The very land of parchments & papers’: The Wrest Park Library as Coterie Hub Joshua Smith, ‘The best theological library that I know in Scotland’: The Borrowings and Borrowers of the Leighton Library, Dunblane Baiyu Andrew Song, ‘I have a much larger room to sleep in, and good closets for my books’: Joseph Kinghorn (1766-1832) and His Library
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| 16:00 | Foyer | Tea | ||
| 16:30 | Main Lecture Theatre | Keynote 1
Deidre Lynch, The Social Lives of Scraps: Shearing, Sharing, Scavenging, Gleaning |
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| 17:30 | Foyer | Short Break | ||
| 17:45 | Foyer | Reception | ||
| 19:30 | Stirling Court Hotel | Dinner |
| Time | Place | Event | Place | Event |
| Tuesday 18 April | ||||
| 9:00 | Main Lecture Theatre | Plenary Roundtable: Borrowers’ Registers Across Scotland
Lara Haggerty, The Library of Innerpeffray Robert Betteridge, National Library of Scotland Elizabeth Quarmby-Lawrence, Edinburgh University Library Robert MacLean, Glasgow University Library Rachel Hart, University of St Andrews Library |
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| 10:30 | Foyer | Tea | ||
| 11:00 | Room 1 | Panel 3a: Readers, Libraries and Loss
Jessica G. Purdy, Libraries of Lost Books? Jacob Baxter, Sir William Temple and His Readers Elise Watson, Addressing the ‘Black Holes’ of Ephemeral Catholic Print |
Room 2 | Panel 3b: Books on the Move
Jill Dye, Missing, and wishing, and hoping?: Sources for Identifying Printed Books held by the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 1780-1830 John Stone, Diasporic Books and Recusant Institutions: Remaking the Libraries of Anglophone Catholic Colleges in Spain, 1770-1820 Kelsey Jackson Williams, Looting or Preservation?: Monastic Libraries and English Collectors During the Napoleonic Wars Brittani Ivan, On the Margins of the Public: Women in the Australian Subscription Library (1826-1869) |
| 12:30 | Foyer | Lunch | ||
| 13:30 | Room 1 | Panel 4a: Annotation, Transcription and Reading
Ruth Abbott, Thomas Gray and the Art of Transcribing Historical Manuscripts Robert Betteridge, Lord Hailes’s Reading of David Hume’s Four Dissertations Natalie Tal Harries, Unveiling ‘the treasures that would charm a bibliomaniac’: Walter Scott’s Supernatural Scholarship and Romantic Reading Communities Hannah Jeans, Unprofitable Romances?: Reading, Identity and Seventeenth-Century Women’s Networks |
Room 2 | Panel 4b: Education
Maxine Branagh-Miscampbell, Tobias Smollett, Fool of Quality and The Art of Drawing: The Grindlay Bequest and Childhood Reading Practices at the Royal High School, Edinburgh Mary Fairclough, Lyric, Hymn and School Text: Barbauld’s ‘An Address to the Deity’ and Reading Aloud Duncan Frost, Bird Books: Advertising, Consumption and Readers of Songbird Training Manuals Robin Rider, Assessing the Eighteenth-Century Market for Algebra
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| 15:30 | Foyer | Tea | ||
| 16:00 | Main Lecture Theatre | Keynote Lecture 2
Andrew Pettegree, The Universal Short Title Catalogue: Big Data and its Perils |
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Main Lecture Theatre | Closing Remarks | ||
| 17:15 | Close |