{"id":3218,"date":"2016-10-11T16:33:39","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T16:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/?p=3218"},"modified":"2016-10-11T16:33:39","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T16:33:39","slug":"cemers-50th-anniversary-conference-oct-21-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/2016\/10\/11\/cemers-50th-anniversary-conference-oct-21-22\/","title":{"rendered":"CEMERS 50th Anniversary Conference, Oct. 21-22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/128.226.136.91\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/10\/scribes.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-3219\" alt=\"scribes\" src=\"https:\/\/128.226.136.91\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/10\/scribes.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/10\/scribes.jpg 660w, https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/10\/scribes-300x159.jpg 300w, https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/10\/scribes-450x239.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CEMERS) will host its 50th anniversary conference \u2013 titled \u201cThe Pre-modern Book in a Global Context: Materiality and Visuality\u201d \u2013 <strong>Oct. 21 and 22<\/strong>, at the University Downtown Center. The conference, which begins at 9 a.m. each day, is free and open to all Binghamton University faculty, students and staff. Guests can arrive at any time during the conference.<\/p>\n<p>This conference will address all aspects of the study of the pre-modern book as artifact. Plenary lectures include:<br \/>\n\u2022 Bruce Holsinger, University of Virginia, \u201cTheologies and Biologies of the Book: Past and Present\u201d<br \/>\n\u2022 Lucille Chia, UC Riverside, \u201cImpressions of East Asian Book Cultures: Print and Manuscript Culture in China and Japan, 7th-17th Centuries,\u201d<br \/>\n\u2022 Megan Hale Williams, San Francisco State University, \u201cIdeals and Realities in Late Fourth-Century Historical Research: Books and Libraries in Late Antiquity,\u201d<br \/>\n\u2022 David Roxburgh, Harvard University, \u201cEmulation in the Arts of the Book: The Early Fifteenth-Century Timurid Workshop in Herat.\u201d<br \/>\nA plenary panel on technology and the study of the book will feature William Noel, University of Pennsylvania, Suzanne Paul, Cambridge University Library, and Paola Ricciardi, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK.<br \/>\nAn additional 74 papers will be presented in concurrent sessions. For more information, including the full program,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.binghamton.edu\/cemers\/conferences\/index.html\">go online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CEMERS) will host its 50th anniversary conference \u2013 titled \u201cThe Pre-modern Book in a Global Context: Materiality and Visuality\u201d \u2013 Oct. 21 and 22, at the University Downtown Center. The conference, which begins at 9 a.m. each day, is free and open to all Binghamton University faculty, students [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3218","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-binghamton-university-events","7":"category-books"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}