The Durham History of the Book Conference provides an online forum for scholars working on premodern book cultures from across the globe. Among the presentations:

Wednesday 8 September

Emma Spary (Cambridge University) – “Organizing the Cure in French Works of Materia Medica around 1700”

Pilar Recio Bazal (Complutense University of Madrid) – “The Cosmological Reinvention of the Etymologies of Isidore of Seville: Continental Hybridizations and Peninsular Receptions”

Louisiane Ferlier (The Royal Society) – “Below the Fold: An Investigation of Fold-outs as Places of Scientific Knowledge in the Royal Society Collections”

Thursday 9 September

Agnes Gehbald (Universität Bern) –“An Unpublished Calendar: On Science and Religion as Subjects in Peruvian Colonial Printing”

Mario Cams (University of Macau) – “The Order of Space: Reading Ming China’s Comprehensive Geographies”

Sare Aricanli (Durham University) – “Translation of Western Medicine in the Early Modern Chinese Court? Considering the Stability of ‘Disciplinary’ Categories from the Eighteenth Century”

Nader El-Bizri (American University of Beirut); Giles Gasper (Durham University, UK); Tom McLeish (University of York); and Shazia Jagot (University of York) – Four interlocked presentations on “Ibn al-Haytham: Life, Context, Evidence, and Interests”; “How the Optics is Organised”; “A Case-study of Perception and Experiment”; “Implications for the Reception of Ibn al-Haytham’s Thought”