Symposium: The Art of the Book
The Art of the Book Symposium features innovate new research related to the books, manuscripts, artist books, and zines in the Special Collections Research Center of Temple University Libraries, especially revealed by the student curators during the process of researching the accompanying exhibition.
1:00 PM: Introductory Remarks, Joseph R. Kopta & Kimberly Tully
1:05 PM: Session 1
Keynote Address— Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis (Medieval Academy of America), “Putting it Together: The Beauvais Missal and Temple University”
2:00 PM: Coffee Break
2:10—3:20 PM: Session 2
Moderated by Dr. Alpesh Kantilal Patel (Associate Professor, Art History, Tyler School of Art & Architecture)
Robin Morris (MA student, Art History), “Punk Zines, Vehicles of Transition: Zine Culture in Post-Franco Spain”
Rachael Reynolds (PhD student, Art History), “Life-size and Life-like: Colette Fu’s Photographic and Sculptural Storytelling”
Theodora Dagkli Andonopoulos (MFA student, Painting), “Making a Medieval-Modern Manuscript”
Rachel Vorsanger (PhD student, Art History), “Question What You See: Close Looking within the Special Collections Research Center”
3:20 PM: Coffee Break
3:30—4:00 PM: Session 3
Conversation with book artist Angela Lorenz (artist of the Balzaculator), moderated by Robin Morris (MA student, Art History)
The Symposium is sponsored by Temple University Libraries, the Center for the Humanities at Temple (CHAT), the University’s General Activities Fund (GAF), the Art History Department at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture, and the Jackson Fund for Byzantine Art.