Plenary Sessions

Wednesday, June 20

Plenary I—Keynote address

The Long-Term Significance of Printed Ephemera. 
Michael Twyman, Emeritus Professor, Centre for Ephemera Studies, University of Reading

Moderator: Henry Raine, New-York Historical Society

Co-sponsored by the Bibliographical Society of America

Plenary II—Scholarly Uses of Ephemera

Reconstructing the Prototype of the Consumer Culture—Ben-Hur, 1880-1925. 
Jon Solomon, Department of the Classics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Fan Dancing and Fan Belts: Selling Optimism at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair. 
Cheryl R. Ganz, Curator of Philately, Smithsonian National Postal Museum

Moderator: Erika Dowell, Lilly Library, Indiana University

Plenary III—Ephemera and the Trade

Ephemera: The Dealer's Contribution.  (Panel)
Diane DeBlois and Robert Dalton Harris, aGatherin’
David Margolis and Jean Moss, Margolis & Moss

Moderator: Daniel J. Slive, William Reese Company

Plenary IV—Ephemera: Collectors and Collecting

Ephemeral Guides of the Medically Perplexed. 
William H. Helfand

Spinning Straw into Gold: Gilding Junk through Collecting. 
William P. Barlow, Jr.

Moderator: Eric Holzenberg, The Grolier Club

Friday, June 22

Plenary V—Ephemera in Institutions: Libraries, Museums, Digital Projects

Why Not Ephemera: The Emergence of Ephemera in Libraries. 
Georgia B. Barnhill Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Graphic Arts, American Antiquarian Society

The Truth is in the Details: Ephemera in Museum Collections and Exhibitions. 
Nicolas Ricketts, Curator, Strong National Museum of Play

Fugitive Bytes: Ephemera's Digital Horizons 
John Nicholas Pull, Web Specialist, Library of Congress

Moderator: Barbara Paulson

Plenary VI—Conference Wrap-up

Immortalising the Mayfly. Permanent Ephemera: an Illusion or a (Virtual) Reality?
Julie Anne Lambert, John Johnson Collection, Bodleian Library

Moderator: Maguerite Ragnow, James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota

Co-sponsored by the Ephemera Society of America