50 Years since L'apparition du livre; 16.10.2008, Helsinki

50 Years since L'apparition du livre
Helsinki 16.10.2008 klo 13:00

Workshop: 50 YEARS SINCE L'APPARITION DU LIVRE

Arranged by the Department of History (University of Helsinki), The
Nordic-Baltic-Russian Network on the History of Books, Libraries and
Reading (HIBOLIRE) and The National Library of Finland

Department of History, University of Helsinki
Unioninkatu 38, lecture Hall A205
16 October 2008, 13.00-18.00

Lucien Febvre's and Henri-Jean Martin's l'Apparition du livre,
published in 1958 (translation in English Coming of the Book in
1976), has earned a significant position as the starting point of the
modern book history. During the past fifty years, book history has
become one of the most innovative new research themes among the
history studies. The workshop introduces Febvre's and Martin's title
as well as discusses the modern book history's significance and its
approaches' and methodologies' development.

PROGRAM

13.00
Welcome and Introduction by Director of the Department Prof. Hannes
Saarinen

13.15
Prof. Simon Eliot (University of London): Looking Back and Looking
Forward: Fifty Years of l'Apparition du livre

14.15
Prof. Margareta Björkman (Mälardalen University): Getting to Know the
Eighteenth-Century Readers. A Tentative Outline

15.15
Coffee

15.45
MA Jaakko Tahkokallio (University of Helsinki): Books before the Book
- Medieval Written Culture and the Limits of Book History

16.15
PhD Jessica Parland-von Essen (Society of Swedish Literature in
Finland): What Book Collections Can Tell Us

16.45
PhD Jyrki Hakapää (University of Helsinki): Local Book History
Tradition. Do Finns Need l'Apparition du Livre?

17.30
A visit to the National Library, a presentation of the Reenpää
collection


Tiedustelut:
Jyrki Hakapää <jyrki.hakapaa (at) helsinki.fi> puh. 09 191 24327