SoFCB Orientation and Annual Meeting

Welcome Reception for Junior Fellows

Join us for a wine and cheese reception at Pavillion III on The Lawn, hosted by RBS Director Michael Suarez

Registration

Harrison Institute and Small Special Collections Auditorium
160 McCormick Rd, Charlottesville, VA 22904

Welcome by RBS Director Michael Suarez

Harrison Institute and Small Special Collections Auditorium
160 McCormick Rd, Charlottesville, VA 22904

“What is Critical Bibliography?” by Barbara Heritage

Harrison Institute and Small Special Collections Auditorium
160 McCormick Rd, Charlottesville, VA 22904

Coffee Break

Harrison Institute and Small Special Collections Auditorium
160 McCormick Rd, Charlottesville, VA 22904

Junior Fellow Projects 1

Du Fei
Heng Du
Taylor M. Moore
Carly Yingst

Harrison Seminar Room 318
Floor Three of Harrison Institute and Small Special Collections
160 McCormick Rd, Charlottesville, VA 22904

Lunch

We will provide boxed lunches from Feast to eat together on the lawn in front of Alderman Library, UVA

Junior Fellow Projects II

Jiayi Chen
Sharmeen Mehri
Christina Michelon
Alec Pollak
Neil B. Weijer

Harrison Seminar Room 318
Floor Three of Harrison Institute and Small Special Collections
160 McCormick Rd, Charlottesville, VA 22904

Group Portraits and Professional Headshots

Sign up for a personal headshot slot via a paper sign-up sheet at the meeting.

Porch area just outside of Harrison Institute and Small Special Collections
160 McCormick Rd, Charlottesville, VA 22904

Induction of Junior Fellows and Promotion of Senior Fellows

led by Damian Fleming (SoFCB Past President) and Elizaveta Strakhov (incoming SoFCB President)

Harrison Seminar Room 318
Floor Three of Harrison Institute and Small Special Collections
160 McCormick Rd, Charlottesville, VA 22904

Coffee Break

Plenary Panel: “Collaborations and Tensions”

Panelists: Santiago Muñoz Arbeláez, Crystal Donkor, Holly Shaffer

Discussant: Megan Robb

This year’s plenary panel theme is “Tension and Collaboration.”Lisa Lowe in her 2015 book Intimacies of the Four Continents argues for the necessity of ‘twofold attention’ that balances methods of historical discovery with close attention to erasures and silences. How do scholars approach the challenges of ‘recovering’ collaborative histories of the book where erasures have occurred? Is such a recovery always possible or desirable? How do scholars balance between the desire to uncover forgotten knowledge, on the one hand, and the need to acknowledge irreparable erasures in the context of huge disparities of power?

Harrison Seminar Room 318
Floor Three of Harrison Institute and Small Special Collections
160 McCormick Rd, Charlottesville, VA 22904

Dinner

You will sign-up for a dinner reservation in person on Orientation Day; sign-up sheets will be available for one of four local restaurants.

Multiple restaurants in Charlottesville

Registration

Harrison Seminar Room 318
Floor Three of Harrison Institute and Small Special Collections
160 McCormick Rd, Charlottesville, VA 22904

Welcome and Presidential Address, by SoFCB President John Garcia 

Harrison Seminar Room 318
Floor Three of Harrison Institute and Small Special Collections
160 McCormick Rd, Charlottesville, VA 22904

“Patching Together the World: The Art of the Book in Mughal India”

Keynote Address by Professor Sumathi Ramaswamy, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of History at Duke University and President of the American Institute of India Studies

Read more about our distinguished keynote speaker here.

Harrison Seminar Room 318
Floor Three of Harrison Institute and Small Special Collections
160 McCormick Rd, Charlottesville, VA 22904

Coffee Break

Harrison Seminar Room 318a
Floor Three of Harrison Institute and Small Special Collections
160 McCormick Rd, Charlottesville, VA 22904

Workshops

Workshop 1: “Online Research Strategies for Finding and Acquiring Rare Materials” with Anne Peale 

Workshop 2: “Writing and Applying for Grants,” with Elizabeth Yale, Ryan Cordell, and Alex Hidalgo

Workshop 1:
Harrison Seminar Room 318
Floor Three of Harrison Institute and Small Special Collections
160 McCormick Rd, Charlottesville, VA 22904

Workshop 2:
Clemons 407 Seminar Room
164 McCormick Rd, Charlottesville, VA 22903

Lunch

We will provide boxed lunches from Feast to eat together on the lawn in front of Alderman Library, UVA

Workshops

Workshop 1: “Writing and Submitting a Book Proposal,” with Angie Renee Hogan, Acquisitions Editor with UVA Press

Workshop 2: “Introduction to Nasta’līq Calligraphy,” with Pranav Prakash and Megan Robb

Workshop 1:

Harrison Seminar Room 318
Floor Three of Harrison Institute and Small Special Collections
160 McCormick Rd, Charlottesville, VA 22904

Workshop 2:

Clemons 407 Seminar Room
164 McCormick Rd, Charlottesville, VA 22903

Coffee Break

Harrison Seminar Room 318a
Floor Three of Harrison Institute and Small Special Collections
160 McCormick Rd, Charlottesville, VA 22904