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Programme

Paper Stories: Paper and book history in post-medieval Europe

7-8 May 2020, Reykjavík

Day 1: Thursday 7 May 2020

Time Session a – National Museum Session b – National Library
9:00-9:15 REGISTRATION (speakers only)
9:15-9:30 WELCOME: Guðrún Nordal, director of the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies
9:30-10:30 KEYNOTE SPEAKER 1: Orietta da Rold: Paper stories in pre- and postmodern England Chair: Guðrún Nordal, Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies
10:30-11:00 BREAK BREAK
11:00-12:30 Session 1: Paper making Chair: Silvia Hufnagel, Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies
Xu Xiaojie, Toyo Bunko (the Oriental Library), Tokio: Varieties of the printing paper used for European publication in the sixteenth to eighteenth century
Geoffrey Day, Winchester College: Frost Fairs and Laki: paper-making, printing and the climate in eighteenth-century London
Sonja Neumann, Deutsches Museum, Munich: Rise of the Machines: the development of industrial paper production in nineteenth century Europe
12:30-13:30 LUNCH LUNCH
13:30-14:30 KEYNOTE SPEAKER 2: Dana Sajdi, Boston College: The place of culture (from the perspective of the Arabic tradition) CHAIR: Guðmundur Hálfdanarson, dean of School of humanities
14:30-15:00 BREAK BREAK
15:00-17:00 Session 2a: Object biography Chair: Bragi Þorgrímur Ólafsson, National and University Library of Iceland SESSION 2b: Paper users Chair: Halldóra Kristinsdóttir, National and University Library of Iceland
Martina Hacke, University of Düsseldorf: Agents connecting the book markets of Basle, Paris and Lyons in late medieval times: the example of the agents of Johann Amerbach Maria Stieglecker, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna: Traveling books: Johannes of Speyer and his autographs
Maik Schmerbauch, Jesuits-University St. Georg, Frankfurt/German Archives, Berlin: Book collections of the libraries in catholic parishes in eighteenth century Germany Bernd Kulawik, Independent scholar, Berlin: A network of watermarks, papers, scribes and daughtsmen, objects and their documentation: the forgotten Roman Accademia de lo Studio de l‘Architettura (c. 1535-1555) and its legacy
Anna Svensson, Independent scholar, Stockholm: Plants in paper: revisiting the early herbarium as history of the book Már Jónsson, University of Iceland: A witch finder‘s archive in seventeenth century Iceland
Gunnar Marel Hinriksson, National and University Library of Iceland: The paper thief: illegal paper trade in mid-seventeenth century Skálholt
17:00 OPENING OF EXHIBITION/RECEPTION: Ingibjörg Steinunn Sverrisdóttir, National Librarian

Day 2: Friday 8 May 2020

Time Session a – National Museum Session b – National and University Library
09:00-10:30 Session 3a: Vernacular literacy Chair: Viðar Hreinsson, Icelandic Museum of Natural History/Stefansson Arctic Institute Session 3b: Watermark description Chair: Silvia Hufnagel, Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies
Davíð Ólafsson, University of Iceland: Many pages, much ink: the materiality of writing in nineteenth century Iceland Ermengilda Müller, University of Iceland: Describing watermarks in TEI-conformant XML
Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon, University of Iceland: Magnús the Rapist: heterotopia – spaces of Otherness (No-place) Neil Harris, University of Udine: Watermarks and descriptive protocols: Briquet reloaded
Harpa Rún Ásmundsdóttir, University of Iceland: From oral transmission and single sheets of paper to systematic collection of poetry Ilaria Pastrolin, École nationale des chartes, Paris: Let the paper talk: a descriptive protocol through Briquet
10:30-11:00 BREAK BREAK
11:00-12:30 Session 4a: Vernacular literacy Chair: Davíð Ólafsson, University of Iceland SESSION 4b: Paper uses Chair: Beeke Stegmann, Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies
Indriði Svavar Sigurðsson, University of Iceland: The mirror in miscellanies Paul M. Dover, Kennesaw State University: The impacts of paper’s abundance, 1450-1650: an episode in coevolution
Viðar Hreinsson, Icelandic Museum of Natural History/Stefansson Arctic Institute: Harsh nature in tattered manuscripts Heather Wolfe, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington D.C.: Reconsidering John Spilman‘s paper legacy and the English white paper market
Dana Sajdi, Boston College: Coif and tell: the barber historian of Damascus in the eighteenth century Pàdraig Ó Macháin, University College Cork: Paper and the format of Irish manuscripts
12:30-13:30 LUNCH LUNCH
13:30-15:30 SESSION 5a: Watermark analysis Chair: Maria Stieglecker, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna SESSION 5b: Paper analysis Chair: Vasaré Rastonis, Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies
Krisztina Rábai, University of Szeged: From bull to boar: the beginnings of hand-made paper in East-Central Europe Nina Hesselberg-Wang and Chiara Palandri, National Library of Norway: Missale Nidrosiense, 1519: an archaeological approach
Silvia Hufnagel, Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies: Paper trade and provenance in fifteenth and sixteenth century Iceland: an overview Jedert Vodopivec, Archives of the Republik of Slovenia, Ljubljana: Structure and paper of the Dalmatin Bible 1584
Beeke Stegmann, Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies: The origin of added paper in structurally altered manuscripts of the Arnamagnæn Collection
Halldóra Kristinsdóttir, Rannver Hannesson, Jón Kristinn Einarsson, National and University Library of Iceland: The Renaissance man of Reykjafjörður: a study of the seventeenth-century scribe Hannes Gunnlaugsson
15:30-16:00 CLOSING REMARKS AND DISCUSSION Chair: Þórunn Sigurðardóttir, Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies