Programme
See below for the full programme. Abstracts will be available after 7 April.
Conference Programme
10.00: Registration (coffee available)
11.00: Housekeeping + Welcome
11.15 – 12.45: Panels 1 + 2
Panel 1
- James Daybell, ‘Collective Epistolarity in Early Modern Correspondence’
- Emily Chambers, ‘The Physicality of Handwriting and Elite Tudor Women’s Approaches to Holograph Letters’
- Daniel Ellis, ‘Authorship, Style, and Invention: The Correspondence of Ralph Rabbards and Sir Thomas and Lady Muriel Knyvett’
Panel 2
- Hannah Robb, ‘Mediating Voices in Church Court Depositions in Early Modern England’
- Clare Egan, ‘Deletions, Insertions and Marginal Notations in Early Seventeenth Century Star Chamber Records’
- Lloyd Bowen, ‘“You Mouste Remember to Set Doune Where You Reseved Youre Woundes in Youre Petishon”: Collaborative Authorship and Petitioning for Military Welfare in Seventeenth-Century England and Wales’
12.45 – 14.00: Lunch
14.00 – 15.30: Panels 3 + 4
Panel 3
- Angelika Zirker and Matthias Bauer, ‘The Harmonies of Little Gidding: Communal and Co-Creative Text Production’
- Millie Randall, ‘Flirting and Failure in Late Seventeenth-Century Miscellanies’
- Danielle Clarke, ‘Scribal Culture and the Production of the Poetry of Lady Anne Southwell (1574-1636)’
Panel 4
- Samantha Brown, ‘“I have a letter sent unto the King […] out of Barbary to translate”: The Reception of Arabic Diplomatic Correspondence in Early Seventeenth-Century England’
- Alisa van de Haar, ‘Migrants’ Quills: Scribes, Secretaries, and Calligraphers from the Low Countries in Sixteenth-Century England’
- Serena Carlamaria Crespi and Ambra Stefanello, ‘Mastering Ink: Valerio Spada and the Manuscript Production of 17th-Century Florence’
15.30 – 16.00: Break (tea/coffee)
16.00 – 17.30: Panels 5 + 6
Panel 5
- Helmer Helmers & Kerrewin van Blanken, ‘Negotiating Propaganda in Early Modern Europe. Public Diplomacy and the Making of Salmasius’ Defensio Regia (1649-1650)’
- Maxim Hoffman, ‘Masters of the Quill: Unveiling Authorship in the Production of Letters at the Habsburg Courts during Charles V’s Reign’
- James Loxley, ‘The Epistemology of the King’s Closet: Manuscript Letters, James VI and I, and the History of Sexuality’
Panel 6
- Blandine Demotz, ‘Becoming the King’s Man: Collaborative Writing in Thomas Cromwell’s Documents (1532-1540)’
- Hsuan-Ying Tu, ‘Dictation: The Secretarial Intimacy in Late Tudor Middling Politics’
- Lyndan Warner, ‘William Cecil, scribbler’
17.30 onwards: Drinks Reception
09.30 – 11.00: Panels 7 + 8
Panel 7
- Kyle Dase, ‘“Conveying One’s Own Disgrace”: Pithy Poems, Thomas Hobson, and Edgerly’s Wife, the Carrier in BL Additional MS 30982’
- Holly Lavergne, ‘“As Witness my Hand”: MS Rawl. poet. 173 and Collaborative Verse Miscellany Production’
- Daniel Starza Smith, ‘The Burley Manuscript: a Major Source for John Donne’s Correspondence, Compiled at the English Embassy in Venice’
Panel 8
- Zoë Jackson, ‘“To the best of this deponents remembrance”: Memory and the Co-Production of Witness Depositions in Later Seventeenth-Century England’
- Tim Stretton, ‘Perjury in the Archives’
- Cameron Whiteside, ‘The Commission on Fees: Its “Recommendations” and “Regulation” of Manuscript Production’
11.00 – 11.30: Break (tea/coffee)
11.30 – 12.30: Keynote
Daniel Wakelin, ‘“Daily I wrote with mine own hands”: The Earliest Everyday Creativity in English’
12.30 – 13.30: Lunch
13.30 – 14.30: Boat Tour
14.30 – 15.00: Tea/coffee
15.00 – 16.30: Panels 9 + 10
Panel 9
- Amber Hogan, ‘Adrift Authorship in Early Modern Navigational Logs’
- Randolph Cock, ‘The Voice of Elizabeth Sprigs, Bonded Labourer’
- Helen Watt, ‘“My freind who writes for me”: Scribes and Scribal Relationships in the Letters of Seamen, 1793-1815’
Panel 10
- Jessica Edmondes, ‘“The text is old”: Manufacturing Verse and Meaning in the Early Modern Manuscript Miscellany’
- Jean-Antoine Engel, ‘From Conquest to Plantation: Collaborative Authorship in Foras Feasa ar Éirinn (1634)’
- Helena Rutkowska, ‘Collaboration in the Drafts of William Camden’s Annals’
16.30 – 16.45: Break (tea/coffee)
16.45 – 17.45: Panels 11 + 12
Panel 11
- Laura Purcell, ‘The Scribe and the Lady’
- Marika Keblusek, ‘“In amicitiae mnemosynon”. English Hands in the Album Amicorum of Bernardus Paludanus, c.1600’
Panel 12
- Eric Jorink, ‘Paper trials. Robert Hooke, Note-Taking and Microscopical Observations at the Royal Society’
- Scott Mandelbrote, ‘Authorship and Authenticity: The Scribal Production and Dissemination of Isaac Newton’s Writings’
18.30: Conference Dinner
10.00 – 11.30: Panels 13 + 14
Panel 13
- Emily Whittingham, ‘Newes from the Dead: Poetic Responses to the Case of Anne Greene’
- Owen Adams, ‘The Contested Origins of the Forest of Dean "Miners Magna Carta"’
- Paulina Kewes, ‘Mary Queen of Scots’ Phantom Texts’
Panel 14
- Samuli Kaislaniemi,‘Layout & Letterlocking in Scribal Letters: Shared Practices or Material Differences?’
- Guillaume Coatalen, ‘Folger ms X.d.393, Shedding Light on the Practice of an Unknown Popular Scribe’
- Dzemila Sero, ‘Heritage Biometrics: The Study of Fingerprints on Artworks Using Computational Imaging, Forensics, and Biometrics’
11.30 – 12.00: Break (tea/coffee)
12.00 – 13.00: Roundtable
Chair: Nadine Akkerman
- Marie-Louise Coolahan
- Jonathan Gibson
- Tim Stretton
- Alison Wiggins