The Playful Antiquarian » Conferences http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking She is too fond of books and it has turned her brain. -- Louisa May Alcott Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:54:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Greetings from San Antonio! http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2006/01/24/greetings-from-san-antonio/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2006/01/24/greetings-from-san-antonio/#comments Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 vernica http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2006/01/24/greetings-from-san-antonio/ Hello, all! I am in San Antonio at the moment, enjoying my last day at the ALA Midwinter Meeting. I needed my laptop today to take minutes for the committee for which I am interning, so I decided that it was a good time to take advantage of brief wifi access.

This meeting has been mostly work and very little play for me. However, yesterday, I was able to visit the exhibits where I scored a free copy of the Norton Anthology of Children’s Literature and managed to get all of my textbooks for next semester for half price. And, after this meeting, I will finally get a chance to do touristy things like eat on the Riverwalk and tour the Alamo.

I hope to post more soon–if not from San Antonio, then from Boston.

]]> http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2006/01/24/greetings-from-san-antonio/feed/ 1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Beatrix Potter in America Conference, Nov. 4-6, 2005 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2005/08/21/event-beatrix-potter-in-america-nov-4-6-2005/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2005/08/21/event-beatrix-potter-in-america-nov-4-6-2005/#comments Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 vernica http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2005/08/21/event-beatrix-potter-in-america-nov- A conference in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Beatrix Potter Society will be held at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Amherst MA, November 4-6, 2005. This conference, focusing on Potter’s relationship with America and Americans, is the first conference held by the Society in the U.S. Two of the scheduled talks, “The Beatrix Potter Collection in the Free Library of Philadelphia” by Karen Lightner and “Peter Rabbit Finds Mercury in Retrograde: The Story of the Beatrix Potter Collection of Lloyd Cotsen” by Ivy Trent, will discuss American collections of Potter’s works.

For the complete schedule and registration information, visit the Beatrix Potter Society’s events page.

]]> http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2005/08/21/event-beatrix-potter-in-america-nov-4-6-2005/feed/ 0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Let’s Dance: A Symposium and Institute http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2005/06/30/event-lets-dance-a-symposium-and-institute/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2005/06/30/event-lets-dance-a-symposium-and-institute/#comments Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 vernica http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2005/06/30/event-lets-dance-a-symposium-and-ins Simmons College’s Center for the Study of Children’s Literature 2005 summer institute and symposium in children’s literature will be held next month. The graduate symposium meets Tuesdays and Thursdays from July 5-28, and the institute will meet from July 28-31. This year’s theme is “Let’s Dance”, and the symposium and institute will examine the relationship between performance and children’s literature.* Speakers include Cornelia Funke (author of Inkheart), Maria Tatar (Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Harvard and editor of Norton’s The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales), and Anita Silvey (author of 100 Best Books for Children). Further information, including a PDF of the brochure and registration form, is available at the Center’s website.

*This seems to be a popular conference topic this year. “Performing Childhood” was the title/theme of the Children’s Literature Association’s annual conference earlier this month in Winnipeg, Canada.

]]> http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2005/06/30/event-lets-dance-a-symposium-and-institute/feed/ 0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ World’s Fair Symposium http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2005/04/01/worlds-fair-symposium/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2005/04/01/worlds-fair-symposium/#comments Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 vernica http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2005/04/01/worlds-fair-symposium/ I found about the World’s Fair Symposium today while looking for something on the Getty Research Institute site. It is an Organization of American Historians (OAH) preconference concluding today in San Francisco. It is being held in conjunction with the Special Collections Library at California State University, Fresno, home of the Donald G. Larson Collection on International Expositions and Fairs, 1851-1940.

I wish I had known about this sooner, as world’s fairs are one of my pet research interests. Anyhow, if you are curious about what world’s fair researchers are studying, the World’s Fair Symposium site (linked above) has a list of presenters and paper topics. And, if you are interested in the history of collecting, the Getty Institute’s Events Related to Collecting page is a great resource for conferences, exhibitions and similar events in this field.

]]> http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2005/04/01/worlds-fair-symposium/feed/ 0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ The Fairy Tale Belongs to the Poor, August 7-13, 2005 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2005/03/21/the-fairy-tale-belongs-to-the-poor-august-7-13-2005/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2005/03/21/the-fairy-tale-belongs-to-the-poor-august-7-13-2005/#comments Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 vernica http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2005/03/21/the-fairy-tale-belongs-to-the-poor-a This year’s Children’s Literature New England (CLNE) summer institute, “The Fairy Tale Belongs to the Poor“, will be held in Cambridge at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Neil Gaiman, Susan Cooper, Maria Tatar, Jack Zipes, and many other authors and experts will be speaking at this year’s institute. Unfortunately, since this institute about fairy tales does not belong to the poor, with registration at $1000, I will not be able to attend, but for anyone who may be interested, details about the institute and registration are available at the CLNE website.

I wonder if j will try to get Neil Gaiman to autograph her new copy of The Wolves in the Walls?

]]> http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2005/03/21/the-fairy-tale-belongs-to-the-poor-august-7-13-2005/feed/ 0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ The exhausted antiquarian http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2005/01/16/the-exhausted-antiquarian/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2005/01/16/the-exhausted-antiquarian/#comments Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 vernica http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2005/01/16/the-exhausted-antiquarian/ Today is the last day of ALA Midwinter meetings for me. I am exhausted but energized. I will write a more detailed report of the weekend shortly, but for any interested readers, here is the list of meetings I attended:

  • ACRL RBMS Bibliographic Standards Committee: Thesaurus Subcommittee
  • ALCTS CCS CC:DA Joint ALCTS/ACRL Task Force on Cataloging Rules for Early Printed Monographs
  • ACRL RBMS Bibliographic Standards Committee
  • ACRL RBMS Public Services Discussion Group
  • ACRL RBMS MARC for Special Collections Discussion Group
  • ACRL RBMS Information Exchange

I also met my RBMS mentor on Friday and had a delightful dinner at the Island Hopper with many past Spectrum scholars on Saturday. Librarians are wonderful to be around; I think I have made a great career choice.

]]> http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2005/01/16/the-exhausted-antiquarian/feed/ 0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ ALA Midwinter 2005 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2005/01/06/ala-midwinter-2005/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2005/01/06/ala-midwinter-2005/#comments Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 vernica http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2005/01/06/ala-midwinter-2005/ Although I have not finalized my schedule yet, I will be at ALA Midwinter next week. I was very happy to receive my badge and exhibit hall pass last weekend, and I am looking forward to attending some of the RBMS and ALCTS committee meetings and finally having an opportunity to meet other Spectrum scholars. If you will be in Boston for the conference and would like to meet, please comment below or e-mail me.

]]> http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2005/01/06/ala-midwinter-2005/feed/ 1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Society for the History of Children and Youth annual conference http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2004/11/23/cfp-society-for-the-history-of-children-and-youth-annual-conference/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2004/11/23/cfp-society-for-the-history-of-children-and-youth-annual-conference/#comments Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 vernica http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2004/11/23/cfp-society-for-the-history-of-child December 15 is the deadline for paper and session proposals for the 2005 conference of the Society for the History of Children and Youth. The conference will be held August 5-8, 2005 in Milwaukee, and this year’s theme is “Children’s Worlds/Children in the World”. [via H-CHILDHOOD list]

Note: The SHCY website lists the dates of the conference as August 4-7, but recent announcements list August 5-8. Check with SHCY for more information.

]]> http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2004/11/23/cfp-society-for-the-history-of-children-and-youth-annual-conference/feed/ 0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ What would Kitty do? http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2004/04/16/what-would-kitty-do/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2004/04/16/what-would-kitty-do/#comments Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 vernica http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2004/04/16/what-would-kitty-do/ When I spotted the Hello Kitty posters while walking through Harvard Yard today, I knew that they could only mean trouble. I avoided reading them for this reason. Sadly, my attempts at avoidance were futile…Cynthia Rockwell just revealed the awful truth on her weblog, and now, I am faced with a real dilemma. Conference on kawaii culture versus conference on blogging–which should I choose?

HPAIR and the Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies are sponsoring a one day conference on kawaii culture tomorrow, April 17. This was the type of conference that I wanted Harvard to hold five years ago when I was a full-time graduate student in East Asian studies and everyone laughed at me (and generally, failed to take me seriously) because of my research interests. Things change, I guess.
(Hmmm…I checked with Hello Kitty at Sanrio’s fortune corner, hoping to get more guidance on this dilemma. Kitty was vague in her characteristic way: “Lacking motivation? Get up early and exercise! Go jogging or do some stretches.” And, apparently, my lucky item this month is a glass craft kit…the one craft kit that I do not own…)

]]> http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2004/04/16/what-would-kitty-do/feed/ 1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Proposal: BloggerCon session on librarians and weblogs http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2004/03/12/proposal-bloggercon-session-on-librarians-and-weblogs/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2004/03/12/proposal-bloggercon-session-on-librarians-and-weblogs/#comments Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/thinking/2004/03/12/proposal-bloggercon-session-on-libra At last night’s Harvard weblog writers’ meeting, we discussed the possibility of having a session on librarians and weblogs at the upcoming BloggerCon. Jessica, who is advocating for this, has posted a preliminary proposal on her weblog and a more formal proposal will be posted to the BloggerCon weblog soon. If you are interested in attending a session like this and/or have ideas or suggestions, please comment on Jessica’s weblog and on the BloggerCon weblog (once the proposal is posted there).Conference organizers are concerned that there is not enough interest in this topic, and the session will not happen unless there is proof that people will attend and participate. The librarian session did not happen at the first BloggerCon, so it would be great if it happened this time. Don’t let the comment about the session being geared toward special librarians discourage you. Archivists, special collections librarians, curators, and information professionals of all types are encouraged to attend and to propose ideas.

If you have not registered for the conference yet, be sure to do so before registration closes. The conference will be held at Harvard Law School on April 17, and it is free and open to the public.

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