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Keynote Address
Friday, October 1, 7 p.m.
WILLIAM A. GRAHAM
Murray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University
'Winged Words': Classics and Scriptures as Cultural Icons
Panels & Papers
Papers will be pre-circulated and introduced by panelists for general discussion, but not read aloud. Papers will be available to registered participants by September 1st.
Saturday, October 2
9:00-10:30 Theories and Methods
- BRIAN MALLEY (Michigan) "An Anthropological Theory of Scriptures"
- DEIRDRE C. STAM (Long Island) "Talking about 'Iconic Books' in the Terminology of Book History"
- JAMES W. WATTS (Syracuse) "Ancient Iconic Texts and Scribal Authority"
10:30 Launch of the Society for Comparative Research on Iconic and Performative Texts (SCRIPT)The Iconic Books Database
11:00-12:30 Vision
- S. BRENT PLATE (Hamilton) "Looking at Words: On the Typography and Design of Book Pages"
- JACOB KINNARD (Iliff) "Why is it Better to See a Book than Read it? Further Reflections on the Buddhist Representation of Manuscripts"
- ZE'EV ELITZUR (Ben-Gurion) "Between the Textual and the Visual: Borderlines of Late Antique Book Iconicity"
1:30-3:00 Power
- VINCENT L. WIMBUSH (Claremont) "Making Do With the Fetish: Scriptures and Vernaculars"
- PHILIP P. ARNOLD (Syracuse) "Texts and the Conquest of Indigenous Lands"
- JASON LARSON (Bates) "Gospels as sites of memory in Christian Late Antiquity"
3:15-4:45 Production
- GURINDER SINGH MANN
(Santa Barbara) "The history of Guru Granth Sahib"
- TIMOTHY BEAL (Case
Western) "The End of the Word as We Know It: the Marketing of 21st Century Bibles"
- KARL SOLIBAKKE (Syracuse) "Origins of the Great Books Series"
Sunday, October 3
8:30-10:30 Ritual
- JOANNE PUNZO WAGHORNE
(Syracuse) "A Birthday Party for a Sacred Scripture: The Gita Jayanti and the Embodiment of God as the Book"
- YOHAN YOO (Seoul) "Possessing Scriptures: Ways in which Korean Lay Buddhists Appropriate Scriptures"
- KRISTINA MYRVOLD (Lund) "Engaging with the Guru: Contemporary Beliefs and Practices of Guru Granth Sahib"
- DORINA MILLER PARMENTER
(Spalding) "Iconic Books From Below: Ritual Uses of the Christian Bible"
10:30 The Iconic Books Database
11:00-12:30 Interpretation
- CLAUDIA RAPP (UCLA) "Monastic Engagement with the Written Word in Late Antiquity"
- M. PATRICK GRAHAM (Emory) "The Tell-Tale Iconic Book: The Hermeneutics of 16th Century Biblical Illustrations"
- CLAUDIA CAMP (TCU) "Possessing the Iconic Book: Ben Sira as Case Study"
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