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DESCRIPTION:This symposium\,\norganized in conjunction with the exhibition 
 The Codex and Crafts in Late Antiquity\, aims to give an\noverview of the 
 scholarship around the innovation of the codex in late\nantiquity and its 
 gradual establishment as the standard form of the book until\ntoday. Speak
 ers will focus on two distinct but complementary aspects—the\nhistorical\,
  which derives primarily from the study of codices as texts\, and the\nmat
 erial\, which derives from the study of codices as physical objects. The\n
 purpose of both the exhibition and the symposium is to merge different\ndi
 sciplines\, points of view\, and approaches in order to gain a better\nund
 erstanding of the early history and evolution of one of the most fascinati
 ng\nand culturally significant objects\, the book.Throughout history the\n
 number of books produced must have been huge\, but the number of books los
 t is\nalso substantial. Subtracting those destroyed from those created lea
 ves us the\nnumber of books preserved today\, which\, especially for those
  produced in the\nearliest stages of the evolution of the book is frustrat
 ingly small. This\nscarcity of physical evidence is partly what makes the 
 surviving codices from\nthe early centuries extremely important\, not just
  for their texts but also for\ntheir technical and material culture aspect
 s. Conserving these precious relics\nis a challenge that poses both physic
 al and theoretical problems\, but at the\nsame time grants a privileged ac
 cess which enables a closer study and\nunderstanding of the technical hist
 ory of codices. \n\nPeter N. MillerDean and Professor\, Bard Graduate Cent
 erIvan GaskellProfessor\, Curator and Head of the Focus Gallery Project\, 
 Bard Graduate CenterWelcome Georgios BoudalisHead of the Book and Paper Co
 nservation Laboratory\, Museum of Byzantine Culture\, Thessaloniki\, Greec
 eIntroduction\n\nBrent NongbriIndependent ScholarThe Emergence of the Code
 x in the Roman Empire\n\nDirk RohmannLecturer\, University of WuppertalCan
 on Formation: Book-Burning and the Christian Codex in Late Antiquity\n\nFr
 ancisco H. TrujilloAssociate Book Conservator\, Morgan Library & MuseumInc
 ipient Forms: Codicology of the Coptic Bindings Collection at the Morgan\n
 Library & Museum\n\nMaria FredericksDrue Heinz Book Conservator\, Thaw Con
 servation Center\, Morgan Library & MuseumThe Coptic Manuscripts at the Mo
 rgan Library & Museum: Conservation Then\nand Now\n\nGeorgios BoudalisHead
  of the Book and Paper Conservation Laboratory\, Museum of Byzantine Cultu
 reCodex as Craft: Can a Book be Compared to a Sock?
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Symposium—Early Codices
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