BSA Panels at RSA 2025
The Bibliographical Society of America is proud to sponsor four panels at the Renaissance Society of America conference in Boston, which will be held jointly this year with the Shakespeare Association of America. Learn more about each panel below.
Boston, MA
Renaissance Society of America
Renaissance Libraries: Then and Now I ↑
21 March, 9–10:30am, Boston Westin Copley Place - Empire Room - 7th Floor
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Chaired by Joseph Black, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Between Libraries
Megan Heffernan, DePaul UniversityOriginalism and the Historical Collection: Dobbs v. Jackson as Case Study
Kathryn James, Yale Law SchoolOn the Matter of Provenance
Alice Wickenden, The University of Edinburgh
Renaissance Libraries: Then and Now II ↑
21 March, 11am–12:30pm, Boston Westin Copley Place - Empire Room - 7th Floor
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Chaired by Tara L. Lyons, Illinois State University
A Renaissance Library? The Sixteenth-Century Collections of the Botti Family
Nicholas S. Baker, Macquarie UniversityReading the Libraries of Early Modern British Women
Joseph Black, University of Massachusetts AmherstThe Restoration, Reconstitution, and Endurance of Cathedral Libraries: Considering Lichfield Cathedral
Matilda Houston-Brown, Wadham College, University of OxfordA Handwritten Library in Early Modern Bologna: The Ranuzzi Collection
Hannah McClain, The University of Texas at Austin
Buying Shakespeare ↑
21 March, 2:30–4:30pm, Boston Marriott Copley Place - Falmouth Room - 4th Floor
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Chaired by Aaron T. Pratt, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin
Buying the Pavier Quartos in 1619
Mr. Andreas Patrick Bassett, University of Washington(Not) Buying Shakespeare: Investing in Early Modern Misattribution
Amy Lidster, University of OxfordBuying Bad Plays in the Early 1590s
Alan B. Farmer, Ohio State University
Milton and the Book ↑
22 March, 4:30–6pm, Boston Marriott Copley Place - Boston University Room - 3rd Floor
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Chaired by Christopher N. Warren, Carnegie Mellon University
Milton’s Books and Promiscuous Reading
Claire M. L. Bourne, Pennsylvania State UniversityThe 1668 Story of Milton and the Book Called Paradise Lost
Amrita Dhar, The University of California, San DiegoBookwomen in Milton’s Social Networks
Molly Yarn, Independent Scholar