Saturday 2 June 2012 — all papers in the Keynes Library, 43 Gordon Square. Registration will be £15 on the door (£10 for students)

Programme

9.45-10 Registration
10-10.15 Welcome and introduction (Adam Smyth)

10.15-11.30 Session 1: Manuscripts
Daniel Wakelin (St Hilda’s College, Oxford), ‘“Her faileth thing that is nat yt made”: imagined
omissions in early English manuscripts’
Eleanor Collins (Oxford University Press), ‘Transcribing early modern theatre history: Henry
Herbert’s lost “office-book”’
Karen Britland (Wisconsin-Madison), ‘Acting or sighing: royalist letters and encryption in the
English civil wars’

11.30-12 Coffee and tea

12-1 Session 2: Bodies and sexualities
Jason Scott-Warren (Trinity College, Cambridge), ‘Lambarde’s Pandecta: the book last seen in
Queen Elizabeth’s bosom’
Heather Tilley (National Portrait Gallery), ‘“It ought never to be published”: Old-maidish
scruples and the disappearance of Swinburne’s Lesbia Brandon’

1-2 Lunch (own arrangements)

2-3.15 Session 3: Remembering
Bethan Stevens (Nottingham Trent University), ‘Spekphrasis: writing about lost works of art’
Luisa Calè (Birkbeck), ‘Re-membering the missing collection of Charles I’
Caroline Archer (Birmingham City University), ‘Paris underground: the missing memory of the city’

3.15-3.30 Coffee and tea

3.30-4.30 Session 4: Multi-media
Gill Partington (Birkbeck), ‘Tom Philips’ A Humument’
Patrick Davidson (Steinhardt School of NYU), ‘Reading YouTube Comments: The Diamond Is The Rough’

4.30-5 Roundtable discussion

5 Wine reception