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The Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) is pleased to invite all
interested members of the greater bibliographical community who will be
in New York during Bibliography Week 2008 to the Annual Meeting of the
society:
The Annual Meeting of The Bibliographical Society of America will be
held on Friday, January 25, 2008 at New York University's Hemmerdinger
Hall, 100 Washington Square East, New York City. The meeting will begin
with the New Scholars program at 2:00 p.m. with the following speakers
and papers:
Adam G. Hooks (Columbia University), Malkin New Scholar: "'Playes in
the Press': Booksellers' Catalogues and the Classification of Printed
Drama in Seventeenth-Century England"
Sarah Howe (Christ's College, Cambridge), Pantzer New Scholar: "The
Authority of Presence: The Development of the Author Portrait,
1500-1640"
Hannah Sullivan (Harvard University): "Shored Fragments: Modernist
Excision and its Consequences"
The business meeting will begin at 4:00 p.m. and will conclude with the
Presidential Address by John Bidwell (Morgan Library & Museum) on
"Biographical Dictionaries of the Book Trades." A reception will follow
the conclusion of the meeting.
Daniel J. Slive
Chair, BSA Program Committee
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