Program

Migrations in Society, Culture, and the Library:

WESS European Conference, Paris 2004

Monday : March 22, 2004

Location: Bibliothèque Nationale de France
4:00-6:00: Pre-registration and Onsite Registration
   
5:30-7:00:

Welcome from the Président de la BNF, Jean-Noël Jeanneney. (Ancien ministre, professeur à l'Institut d'études politiques, Jean-Noël Jeanneney, qui avait présidé la Mission du bicentenaire
de la Révolution, est également l'auteur de nombreux livres sur l'histoire contemporaine.
Il vient de publier, aux éditions du Seuil, "le Passé dans le prétoire", un ouvrage de réflexions, à partir du procès Papon, sur les relations entre la justice et l'histoire.)


Speaker : Jean-Claude Guédon, Université de Montréal
"Open borders, open access: on growing humanity's distributed intelligence"
("Frontières ouvertes et accès libre : à propos de l'intelligence répartie de l'humanité et de sa croissance")

   
7:30-9:30: Reception at the Bibliothèque Nationale.

 

Tuesday : March 23, 2004

Salon du Livre: Porte de Versailles

Registrants who are in Paris before the opening of the WESS Conference and wish to visit
the Salon du Livre (which opens March 19) in advance of our day there (Tuesday, March 23),
are free to pick up badges for the Salon du Livre at the Jean Touzot Librairie Internationale,
38 rue St-Sulpice, Paris 6e, which is open 9 AM-7 PM during the week (Saturday 11 AM-7 PM).
Otherwise, registrants will receive badges for the Salon du Livre at registration at the BNF-Mitterand.

10:00 -10:15: Welcome by the Président du Syndicat de l'Édition, Serge Eyrolles
   
10:15 -11:30: "L'Edition Française : Présentation et évolution": Confucius Room, 2nd floor
   
11:30 -1:30: Lunch on one's own & exploration of Salon
   
1:30 - 3:00: "Des éditeurs, des directeurs de collections, des auteurs": Confucius Room, 2nd floor
   
3:00 - : Visit the Salon
6:00: "Migration dans l'art" : Mijo Thomas (Directrice éditions Macula) présente l'invitation des éditeurs du groupe Art du SNE à une conférence de Germain Viatte qui a lieu au Carré des Arts Stand J178

 

Wednesday : March 24, 2004

Location: Espace Georges Bernanos

8:00-9:00: Registration
   
9:30: Welcome: Katalin Radics, Chair of WESS
   
9:45-10:45: Speaker:
Friedrich Heckmann, University of Bamberg and the Director of the European Forum for Migration Studies
"Integration and Integration Policies in Germany and Europe"
   
10:45 - 11:00: Coffee
   
11:00 - 12:30: Session 1
1-A Panel: Migration and Meaning in Digital Resources
Susanne Roberts, Yale University : Moderator
Steven Hall, Senior Vice President of Publishing, ProQuest Information and Learning
Mark Holland, UK Publisher, Gale
Dr. Robert V. McNamee, Director R & D, Electronic Enlightenment Project, Electronic
Publications & Development Manager, Technical Advisor for International Society
for Eighteenth Century Studies, Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford

Mark Sandler, Collection Development Officer, University of Michigan Library
   
  1-B Resources for Migration Studies
"Understanding the Mediterranean Region in order to strengthen Twenty-first Century Europe."
Sarah How, Cornell University
"Studying Ethnic Conflict: Research Methods and Resources for Social Scientists."
Ann Snoeyenbos, New York University
"Cultural Sources for the Study of Migration and Cultural Change in France."
Sarah Sussman, Stanford University
Anthony M. Angiletta, Stanford University, Moderator
   
12:30 - 2:30 : Lunch
 
2:30 - 3:30: Speaker :
Hans-Jürgen Lusebrink, University of Saarbrucken
"Migrant Literatures in Francophone and German-speaking Cultures: Comparative and Intercultural Perspectives on Authorship, Reading, and Publishing"
   
3:30 - 4:00: Coffee
   
4:00 - 5:30: Session 2
2-A Panel: From text to image: the coming of the illustrated 19th century press
"Les débuts de la presse illustrée en Europe: une frontière de l'Europe invisible et fragile."
Jean-Pierre Bacot, France Télécom
"Livres ou périodiques? La presse illustrée et la nouvelle Europe de 1870."
Michèle Martin, Carleton University
   
  2-B Migration of Information: New Projects
"A French Resources Project: Needs and Potentials in a World of Migration."
Tom Kilton, University of Illinois
"Vascoda - Discover Information: a Portal for Subject Information and Interdisciplinary Searches."
Tamara Pianos, Universitätsbibliothek Hannover und Technische Informationsbibliothek (UB/TIB)
"Archive of European Integration: example of the E-print movement"
Phillip W. Wilkin, University of Pittsburgh
   
6:00: Welcome at the offices of Jean Touzot Librairie Internationale
   
6:30 Reception in the City Hall, Place St.-Sulpice, 6e arrondissement
   
7:00-9:30 Welcome from the Mayor of Paris, followed by Concert, Refreshments,and Poetry Reading
*** Advanced registration for the Reception and Concert Program sponsored by Jean Touzot Librairie Internationale is required. Contact Margot Sutton or Kathy Hunter-Rutter.

 

Thursday : March 25, 2004

Location: Espace Georges Bernanos

9:00-10:00: Speaker :
David Seaman, Director, Digital Library Federation
"The Migrated Library: Distributed, Malleable, Enmeshed, and Immediate"
   
10:00-10:30: Coffee
   
10:30:-12:00: Session 3
3-A Migrations in Art
"The Dada movement: violating boundaries."
Timothy Shipe, International Dada Archive, University of Iowa
"Picasso and Cubism in 1909."
Leonard Folgarait, Vanderbilt University
"Art Sales Catalogues, migrating from an analog into an online research tool"
Frans Havekes, IDC Publishers
   
  3-B Migrations of Collections
"Project for a world catalog of books, manuscripts, and engravings."
Jörg-Hendrik Sohst, Bibliothek Sohst, Berlin
"Where are they now?": the dispersal of Spanish printed book collections, 1810-1850."
Geoff West, The British Library
"A moment in time: from the digital record of a migrating library: Cassirer Library project."
Graham Whitaker, Glasgow University
   
12:00 - 2:00: Lunch
   
2:00-3:30: Session 4
4-A Panel: Russians in Paris and Western Europe: three waves of Russian emigration to Europe."
Anatol Shmelev, Hoover Institution: Organizer
Andre Liebich, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva: Presenter
Nikita Struve, Directeur, Les Éditeurs Réunis: Moderator
   
  4-B Publishing and Migration
"Spanish migrations and Spanish publishing."
Roberta Astroff, The Pennsylvania State University
"The migration from print to digital in Italian publishing."
Barbara Casalini, Casalini Libri, Florence, Italy
"Migrations in E-Publishing: New Roles for Librarians."
Elizabeth Brown and Gina Calia-Lotz, Project MUSE, Johns Hopkins University Press
   
3:30 - 4:00: Coffee
   
4:00 - 5:30: Session 5
5-A Migrations in Literature
"Migration, mediation, experience: Walter Benjamin on storytelling and being out of place."
Marion Picker, Dickinson College
"Images of Migration and Change in the German-Language Poetry of Galsan Tschinag."
Richard Hacken, Brigham Young University
"Quand le passage s'écrit: migration de la voix, de l'écrit, et de l'image dans la littérature maghrébine de langue française."
Milena Horvath, Université de Pécs, Hungary
   
  5-B Panel: Microforms and Data Migrations: Preserving the Past and the Future.
Norman Ross, Executive Director, ProQuest Information & Learning, "French Micropublishing:
The Future Isn't What it Used to be."
Anna Perrault, University of South Florida,
"Microforms: Marriages, Mergers, and Migrations"
Robert P. Holley, Wayne State University
"A Short History of the Bibliographic Control of Microform Sets"
Claudia Schorcht, Harald Fischer VerlagGmbH, "
Preserving Digital Content: A New Role for Microforms"
   
6:00 Reception at Aux Amateurs de Livres
   
7:00 - 9:00: Dinner at the Eiffel Tower.
*** Advanced registration to the Reception and dinner sponsored by Aux Amateurs de Livres is required. Contact Margot Sutton or Kathy Hunter-Rutter.

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Friday : March 26, 2004

Location: Bibliothèque Nationale de France

9:00 - 10:00: Speaker :
Roger Chartier, Directeur, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
"Books, Reading, and Libraries from Print Culture to the Digital World"
   
10:15 -11:30: Wrap-up panel : "Tasks ahead"
Richard Hacken, Brigham Young University
Beverly Lynch, University of California, Los Angeles
Jeffry Larson, Yale University, Moderator
 
*** In the afternoon, there will be an optional excursion to the Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian
(2:00 - 5:00: Lecture, Refreshments, and Tour). Advanced registration is required. Contact Margot Sutton or Kathy Hunter-Rutter.

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