Take Me and Make It Happen! How-to-Books from the Ferguson Collection and Corresponding Holdings at the Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel

College of Arts School of Modern Languages and Cultures Stirling Maxwell Centre
Date: Thursday 03 October 2024 - Friday 04 October 2024
Venue: Henry Heaney Room, Level 12, University of Glasgow Library
Category: Conferences, Staff workshops and seminars
Speaker: Various (see below)
Website: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1026143752587/

How-to Workshop 1

Thurs. 3 – Fri. 4 October 2024, Glasgow

Henry Heaney Room, floor 12, Glasgow University Library

Thursday, 3 October 2024

2:00 – 2:45: Welcome and Project Introduction: ‘Take Me and Make It Happen!’ (From Wolfenbüttel to Glasgow and back again....)
Laurence Grove, Stefan Laube, Robert Maclean, Hartmut Beyer, Alina Lange

2:45 – 3:15: Thomas Gloning (Gießen)
The ‘How-to’ Component in 16th-century German Knowledge Texts: Georgius Agricola’s Vom Bergwerck XII: Bücher and Other Examples

3:15 – 3:45: Break

3:45 – 4:15: Andrea van Leerdam (Utrecht)
Books of Secrets in Children´s Hands?

4:15 – 4:45: Joe Sutliff Sanders (Cambridge)
Designing the Perfect Book for the New Reader: How-to Read on Your Own.

4:45 – 5:15: Break

5:15 – 6:00: Book Launch Tracts of Action (Brill) and Pop-up Exhibition

Friday, 4 October 2024

10:00 – 10:30: Agata Paluch (Berlin)
How-to Books from Jewish Tradition: Practical Knowledge vs Religious Knowledge.

10:30 – 11:00: Sergei Zotov (Warwick)
Does the How-to Idea Disenchant the Magic? Images and Tables in Grimoires as Agents of ‘Scientification’ and ‘Aestheticization’

11:00 – 11:30: Break

11:30 – 12:00: Vicente Pérez de León (Glasgow)
How (not) to Read Cervantes’s Don Quichote

12:00 – 12:30: Sabine Wieber (Glasgow) 
Embroidery How-to: Samplers as Pedagogical Tools, 1600-1900.

12.30 – 1:00: Final Discussion

Further details of the project in www.hab.de/en/take-me-and-make-it-happen/

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