Contextualizing Comedias Sueltas Master Class (Day 2)
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Contextualizing Comedias Sueltas Master Class (Day 2)
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