Take Me and Make It Happen! How-to-Books from the Ferguson Collection and Corresponding Holdings at the Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel
Workshop: Practical information on distillation, medicine, dyeing, cosmetics, ceramics, metallurgy and many other topics flooded the book market in the century that followed the introduction of printing. The research questions related to this are just as diverse as the topics the books cover. How does one learn skills from a book? Why were these books so popular? What are the characteristic elements of a how-to book?
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/