Thursday, 5 October
8.30-9.00 Registration (Atrium, 5th floor) / Networking Coffee (Leisure area, 5th floor)
9.00-9.15 Opening of the Conference (Conference Room, 5th floor)
SESSION 1
09.15-09.40
– Conference Room / Zoom –
Jacob Baxter (University of St Andrews, United Kingdom)
Collaborating and Cashing in at the Centre: Auctioning the Right to Publish in Early Modern London
09.40-10.05
– Conference Room / Zoom –
Carolina Ferraro (The Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)
The Madrid Publishing in the 16th-17th Centuries and the Role of Women
– Online / MS Teams –
Katarzyna Pekacka-Falkowska (Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poland)
The Cost and Value of a Library: Johann Philipp Breyne and His Books
10.05-10.30
– Conference Room / Zoom –
Jolita Liškevičienė (Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuania)
Kazimieras Kristupas Klokockis and his printing house in Slutsk
– Online / MS Teams –
Justyna Kiliańczyk-Zięba (Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland)
Collecting Medical Books in 16th-Century Kraków
10.30-10.55
– Conference Room / Zoom –
Mindaugas Šinkūnas (The Institute of the Lithuanian Language, Poland)
Proofreading differences in Lithuanian books of the 16th and 17th centuries
– Online –
Holly K. M. Johnstone (University of Oxford, Oriel College, United Kingdom) (cancelled)
“In this way they go”: Print Culture, Race-making, and Costume in Early Modern Venice
10.55-11.25 Networking coffee (Leisure area, 5th floor)
SESSION 2
11.25-11.50
– Conference Room / Zoom –
Andrea Jelínková (Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic)
A Multiple Periphery: Hebrew Printing in Moravia in the Second Half of the 18th Century
– Online / MS Teams –
Wojciech Kordyzon (University of Warsaw, Poland)
Spreading the Word. The Choices of Genre by the Protestant Polish-Language Book Publishers in Königsberg (1545-1575)
11.50-12.15
– Conference Room / Zoom –
Barnaby Cullen (University of St Andrews, United Kingdom)
Pamphlets, Placards and Papers: The Value of News Printing in the 17th-Century Baltic Sea Region
– Online MS Teams –
Taisiya Leber (Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany)
Greek Printing in the Transottoman Context: The Issue of Centres and Peripheries
12.15-12.40
– Conference Room / Zoom –
Jadvyga Misiūnienė (Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania, Lithuania)
Reformation and Book Printing in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. (1553-1656): from the book collection of the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania
– Online / MS Teams –
Vasiliki Gerontopoulou / Maria Pazarli / Kostas Diamantis (Onassis Foundation-Onassis Library / General State Archives of Greece-Cartographic Heritage Archive, Greece)
Deciphering Rigas Velestinlis’ Charta of Greece (1796-1797) by Using Digital Humanities Approaches and 3D Visualization Tools
12.40-13.05
– Conference Room / Zoom –
Speaker Rimvydas Laužikas (Vilnius University, Lithuania)
Applying automatic coding to past travel research
– Online / MS Teams –
Simona Inserra (University of Catania, Italy)
Theutonicus, Alamanus and de Franckfordia Alamanus: Magistri Artis Impressoriae in Sicily, 1478-1500
13.05-14.30 Lunch Break
SESSION 3
14.30-14.55
– Conference Room / Zoom –
Kristof Selleslach (Museum Plantin-Moretus, Belgium)
The Plantin Press as a Knowledge Hub between Antwerp and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 17th Century
– Online / MS Teams –
Arthur der Weduwen (University of St Andrews, United Kingdom)
Towards a Transnational History of Print and Peripheries: The USTC and Early Modern Book Production in Northern and Eastern Europe
14.55-15.20
– Conference Room / Zoom –
Ieva Rusteikaitė (Vilnius University Library / Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuania)
Bound in Vilnius? The Technological Aspects of Bindings of Books Printed in Second Half of the 16th-Century Vilnius
– Online / MS Teams –
Bartlomiej Siek (Medical University of Gdansk, Poland)
The Early Modern Gdańsk Publishers and Their Medical Books
15.20-15.45
– Conference Room / Zoom –
Sondra Rankelienė (Vilnius University Library, Lithuania)
Hidden Vilnius: background images of Vilnius [?] and architectural fragments of the city in the 17th-18th centuries press
– Online / MS Teams –
Olena Zaiets (Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine, Ukraine)
The Vilnius Printers’ Grammar books of 1574–1628 as a Factor of Cultural Development of Ukraine
15.45-16.10
– Conference Room / Zoom –
Beāte Orlova (National Library of Latvia, Latvia)
The Sons of Antwerp. The 16th-century Flemish Book Trade and the Establishment of the Riga City Printer’s Office
– Online / MS Teams –
Pauls Daija (National Library of Latvia, Latvia)
Johann Friedrich Steffenhagen (1744-1812): A Success Story in the History of Publishing in Courland
16.10-16.30 (Leisure area, 5th floor)
16.30-17.30 Keynote (Conference Room / Zoom)
Cristina Dondi (Oxford University, United Kingdom)
Centres and peripheries, large and small, public and private, religious and lay: the equalizing role of Material Evidence in Incunabula (MEI)
19.00 Dinner (for conference speakers)
Friday, 6 October
8.30-9.00 Registration (Atrium, 5th floor) / Networking Coffee (Leisure area, 5th floor)
– Conference Room / Zoom –
SESSION 4
09.00-09.25
Sanna Raninen (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Production, Readership and Reception of Liber Cantus of 1620 in Sweden
09.25-09.50
Matas Grubliauskas (Vilnius University Library, Lithuania)
Inscriptions in Aristotle’s “Politics”: between “nota bene” and “nego”
09.50-10.15
Carmen Oanea (Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
Private Owners and Their Books. Reading Incunabula in 16th-Century Transylvania
10.15-10.40
Fryderyk Rozen (Independent researcher, Poland)
Incunabula Printed for the Ecclesiastical Province of Gniezno in Various European Printing Centres
10.40-11.10 Networking coffee (Leisure area, 5th floor)
– Conference Room / Zoom –
SESSION 5
11.10-11.35
Angela Škovierová (Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia)
Humanists originating from the territory of today’s Slovakia and their activities in Bohemia and Moravia in the period before the Battle of Biela Hora. Introduction to the issue, starting points, and theses of the research
11.35-12.00
Brigita Zorkienė (Vilnius University Library, Lithuania)
Mission Literature: the Jesuit Mission Network and Reflections of Knowledge Exchange in Vilnius University Library
12.00-12.25
Marianne C.E. Gillion (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Peripheral Plainchant? Musical Individuation and Exchange in Editions from Nuremberg and Riga
12.25-12.50
Nadežda Morozova (The Institute of the Lithuanian Language, Lithuania) / Aliaksandr Parshankou (Charles University, The Czech Republic)
A Copy of the Akathists by Francis Skorina at the University of Wrocław and the Fragments of His Other Publications: Recent Data
12.50-14.30 Lunch Break
– Conference Room / Zoom –
SESSION 6
14.30-14.55
Debora Di Pietro (University of Catania, Italy)
The Sicilian Ownership Archive: A Tool to Trace and Visualize Provenances in Incunabula Collections
14.55-15.20
Kaspar Kolk (University of Tartu Library / Tallinn University Academic Library, Estonia)
The Professionalization of Book Trade in 16th-Century Tallinn
15.20-15.45
Matt Ryan (Newcastle University, United Kingdom)
“The kitchin at Wolfes”: Networks of Support in the Late 16th-Century Book Trade
15.45-16.10 Closing Remarks
17.00-18.00 Excursion to the museum (for conference speakers)
