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Contextualizing Comedias Sueltas Master Class (Day 2)

Friday, April 7, 2023
9:30am - 5:00pm
George Peabody Library
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Two-day master class about the comedias sueltas collection at the Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries.

The Virginia Fox Stern Center for the History of the Book in the Renaissance, the Charles S. Singleton Center for the Study of Premodern Europe, and the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute present a two-day master class about the comedias sueltas collection at the Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries, as well as other treasures from the Spanish Golden Age. Participants will have the change to handle select materials in the company of leading experts in the field of sueltas research.

Day One Agenda and Registration

AGENDA--DAY TWO

  • 9:30 am: Welcome Reception
  • 10:00 am: Morning Panel

Chair: PAUL ESPINOSA, Curator of the George Peabody Library, Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries

Welcome remarks and introduction by the Chair

Setting the Stage: The New JHU sueltas
MACK ZALIN, Librarian for Classics, Comparative Thought and Literature, Jewish Studies, and Modern Languages and Literatures, Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries

Collation, Colophons, and Calderón: Cataloguing Hopkins’ Comedia Suelta Trove
RHIANNON CLARKE, PhD Student, Krieger School of Arts & Sciences, and Denis Family Curatorial Fellow, Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries

"El gran secreto del arte”: Aesthetic Considerations in the refundiciones of José Fernández Guerra
RACHEL WILLIAMS, PhD Student, Krieger School of Arts & Sciences, and Denis Family Curatorial Fellow, Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries

  • 12:00 pm: Box lunch
  • 1:30 pm: Afternoon Panel I

Chair: WILLIAM EGGINTON, Decker Professor in the Humanities and Director of the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute, Johns Hopkins Krieger School of Arts & Sciences

The Basics: Why, Where and What for of Comedias Sueltas?
SZILVIA SZMUK-TANENBAUM, Comedias Sueltas USA

Fingerprinting the Printers: Further Efforts Towards the Identification of Early Comedias Sueltas Without Imprints
MATTHEW MURPHY, Comedias Sueltas USA

  • 3:30 pm: Break
  • 4:00 pm: Afternoon session II

Chair: EARLE HAVENS, Director of the Virginia Fox Stern Center for the History of the Book in the Renaissance and the Nancy H. Hall Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts, Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries

How to use art to identify print
SANDY WILKINSON, University College Dublin

  • 5:00 pm: Program concludes