Books and/as New Media

 Books and/as New Media Twinned Symposia at Harvard University and the University of Edinburgh Mark Algee‐Hewitt Stanford University Harvard University 14‐15 May 2015 Houghton Library University of Edinburgh 9‐10 July 2015 50 George Square For the last 500 years, printed books have been the default means of circulating knowledge. In the last 15 years, this has ceased to be the case. We are now living through a moment of media change as significant as the invention of printing itself. But we will not understand this moment until we situate it in historical perspective. These twinned symposia aim to do that, by bringing together leading scholars from both sides of the Atlantic working on book history, media, literature and digital humanities. All of them will attend both symposia, with the speakers at one event becoming the interlocutors at the other. Re‐embedding the book in the changing media ecology, these symposia explore the long history of new media – from a time when the printed codex was the new medium, through the book’s encounters with the new media of photography, lithography and sound recording, to the digital revolution. In doing so they offer a more nuanced and historicized account of the book’s place in the shifting mediascape. Andrew Piper McGill University !"#$%&'%()* Birkbeck University of London Leah Price Harvard University Lindsey Eckert Georgia State University Matthew Rubery Queen Mary University of London Anthony Grafton Princeton University Jonathan Sachs Concordia University Michelle Levy Simon Fraser University Andrew Stauffer University of Virginia Get more information, read abstracts and register to participate in either event at www.chb.ed.ac.uk Deidre Lynch Harvard University Kathryn Sutherland Tom Mole With support from the Provostial Fund for the Arts and Humanities, Harvard University University of Edinburgh Oxford University