An international conference exploring the political,
cultural and literary consequences of the loss of
great book collections since ancient times
Cambridge
Magdalene College
15 - 17 September 2000
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Speakers include:-
Jeremy Black (University of Oxford), Lost Libraries of Ancient Mesopotamia
T. Keith Dix (University of Georgia), Aristotle's 'Peripatetic Library'
Nigel Ramsay (University of London), The Libraries of Pre-Reformation England
Martyn Rady (University of London), The Corvina Library and Hungary's Lost Royal Archive
Richard Kremer (Dartmouth College), Text to Trophy: Shifting Functions for Regiomontanus's Library
David Rundle (University of Oxford) The Dispersal of the Library of Humfrey, Duke of Gloucester
Elsa Meyland Smith (CPBT) The Libraries of Corvey and the Swedish Pillage
Luidmilla Sharipova (Universities of Kiev and Cambridge) The Library of the Kiev Mohyla Academy, Ukraine
Kenneth Maxwell (Council on Foreign Relations, New York) Royal Library, Lisbon
Martin Roland (University of Vienna) The Bürgerschule of Vienna
Friedrich Buchmayr (Monastery of Sankt Florian) Sakularization and Monastic Libraries in Austria
Eric Azgaldov (International Library, Moscow) Stalin's Seizures
Felix de Marez Oyens (International Senior Director, Christies Department of Printed Books and Manuscripts) Sales and Lost Libraries
Dominique Varry (ENSSIB, Lyons) Revolutionary Seizures and their Consequences on French Library History
Clarissa Campbell Orr (Anglia Polytechnic University) Hanoverian Royal Libraries
Margaret Connolly (University College, Cork) Dispersal and Disappearance of Church of Ireland Diocesan Libraries
Sem C. Sutter (University of Chicago) Nazi Confiscations
Rebecca J. Knuth (University of Hawaii) China's Destruction of the Libraries of Tibet
Rui Wang (Humboldt State University, California) China's Roosevelt Library
Dr. Nigel Hall, Mansfield College,
Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TF, United Kingdom.
Email: nigel.hall@mansfield.oxford.ac.uk
Or
Elsa Meyland-Smith, Cambridge Project for the Book Trust,
Malting House, Malting Lane, Cambridge, CB3 9HF, United Kingdom.