Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America

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4.30-5.30 Opening Lecture

Animals and Humans in Early Modern Anatomical Illustrations

Professor Anita Guerrini, Horning Chair in Humanities and Department of History, Oregon State University

8.00 Registration

8.30-9.00 Welcome
Greg Downey, Christine Pawley

9.15-10.45 Session 1

1A. Homing in on Engineering Education
1B. Popularizing Science in Print

10.45-11.15 Break

11.15-12.45 Session 2

2A. Promoting to the Medical Profession
2B. Hybridity: Science and Literature

12.45-2.00 Lunch (on your own)

2.00-3.30 Session 3

3A. Government, Commerce and International Communication
3B Representations of Body and Nature

3.30-4.00 Break

4.00-5.30 Session 4

4A. New Technologies and Graven Images
4B. Children Reading Nature

6.00 Public Lecture

The Laboratory of Print

James A. Secord
Professor, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Director of the Darwin Correspondence Project
Cambridge University, UK

7.00 Reception

9.00-10.30 Session 5

5A. Turn-of-the-Century Technological Fascination
5B. Rural Networks and Narratives

10.30-11.00 Break

11.00-12.30 Session 6

6A. Popular Medical texts
6B. Libraries: Collecting, Classifying, and Enabling

12.30-2.00 Lunch (on your own)

2.00-3.30 Session 7

7A. Print Culture Meets Political Controversies
7B. Old information: New Technology

3.30-4.00 Break

4.00-5.30 Session 8

8A. Natural World in Print
8B. Mathematics: Code and Text

6.30-8.30 Dinner

12.00-1.00 Post-Conference Lecture

"Just and Intelligent Scrutiny": Eliza Atkins Gleason's Investigation of Library Services for African Americans in the 1930s

Professor Cheryl Knott Malone, School of Information Resources & Library Science,University of Arizona