bibliography and history of the book

In the summer of 2026, Elizabeth and Ines Soto were sentenced to fifty years in prison for their participation in the anti-ICE protests at Prairieland, including a charge of “providing material support to terrorists.” In the trial that led to these exorbitant sentences, the Sotos’ production and distribution of zines, including literature on protest strategy, anti-ICE arguments, gay and trans issues, and plant propagation, were used as evidence in their conviction. Their printing press (a home office printer) was confiscated by the FBI. At the same time, Daniel Sanchez Estrada, who was not present at the protest, was sentenced to thirty years for “concealing documents,” including zines labeled as “political literature.”

Host Institution: Sapienza University of Rome (Scientific Director: Prof. Federico Batini)

Conference Dates: December 2–3, 2026 (Rome) & December 4, 2026 (Perugia, Italy)

Official Website: www.sharedreadingaloud.com

Resurgens Theatre Company, along with the Georgia State University Department of English, is pleased to announce our fourth biennial conference on early modern verse drama by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, “Shakespeare’s Apocrypha Now.” We’re calling for papers that examine some aspect of Shakespeare’s non-canonical plays, i.e., those dramatic works that have been or are currently attributed to Shakespeare (as a whole or in part) that have yet to receive widespread scholarly and/or theatrical recognition. We particularly welcome topics on canonicity, collaboration, and performance-oriented concerns regarding Renaissance drama and/or early modern print culture.

This roundtable considers the role of “unfinished” texts—in the broadest possible sense—in early modern English literature and life writing. 

‘The pluralism of a postcolonial or decolonial philosophy of religion should be “on both ends” of the discipline; that is, both the phenomena and subjects considered and contemplated by the discipline should be diverse, but also the people, perspectives, and methods engaged in this project should come from diverse backgrounds—not only in terms of race, class, gender, geography, etc. but also in terms of ritual practice, training (both academic and otherwise), initiation or membership in tribes, societies, or “religious” traditions.’

—Oludamini Ogunnaike, “Expanding the Menu or Seats at the Table? Grotesque Pluralism in the (Post)Colonial Philosophy of Religion.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 89, no. 2 (2021): 734.

Hogg’s Worlds Now

The Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) will sponsor up to four panels at RSA Philadelphia 2027 and invites proposals for individual papers or pre-formed panels on any topic within the scope of bibliography and book history. Papers and pre-formed panels may address, but are certainly not limited to, the following topics:

Call for Papers

University of Delaware’s 8th CMCS Conference in Material Culture

April 2-3, 2027

What’s the Matter with Description?

Form, Practice, and Material Culture

Keynote Speaker

Susan Stewart

(Princeton University)

Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies /

Société canadienne d’études de la Renaissance

CALL FOR PAPERS AND PROPOSALS: TORONTO 2027

CFP: Feminist Digital Archiving

April 23-24, 2027

William & Mary, Williamsburg VA

Please send a 300-400 word abstract and 200 word bio to emlosh@wm.edu by December 1, 2026

Amy Earhart has warned that feminist and anti-racist digital humanities projects are often vulnerable to neglect and obsolescence, compounding a persistent “lack of diversity in the digital canon.”  She also cited Matt Kirschenbaum’s dictum that “preservation is not a technical problem but a social problem.”

The Visual Cultures of YA Romance: Seeing Desire, Reading Relationships - The International Journal of Young Adult Literature 8/2027

Guest editors:

Dalila Forni (Università dell’Aquila - IT)
Alessandra Mazzini (Università di Bergamo - IT)
Valentina Baeli (Università di Catania - IT)

PKMS Graduate Student Conference and Workshop: Dinner Party Medieval Studies 

Thursday, February 18 – Friday, February 19 2027

The Graduate Center, CUNY

The Editorial Board of the History and Art Journal officially invites original and unpublished research articles for its upcoming Volume 2.

We welcome interdisciplinary submissions in English and Spanish across history, art history, and museology. Our main thematic tracks include Early Modern and Modern History, Visual Culture, Archival Research, Material Culture, and Digital Humanities.

How do we study reading practices of the modernist era? After the development of what Richard Altick (1957) famously called the “democracy of print” in the nineteenth century, and the move toward mass literacy in the Anglophone world, how did  the act of reading and readership get transformed? Virginia Woolf’s 1926 essay, “How Should One Read a Book?” called reading the “most arduous and exhausting of occupations” and made the case for a discerning reader who would give the writer the “benefit of every doubt.” While the modernist era championed close reading with the evolution of New Criticism and I.A.