bibliography and history of the book

‘EVIDENCE OF READING, READING THE EVIDENCE’
A major international conference to be held at the Institute of English
Studies, University of London
 21-23 July 2008
Organised by the Open University and the Institute of English Studies
Confirmed speakers: Kate Flint, Jonathan Rose, David Vincent, Helen Small,
Naomi Tadmor

War & the (Re)Invention of Communications & Communities (11/01/07;
2/29/08-3/1/08) Arizona State U.

Paper Submission Deadline Extended to Nov. 1, 2007

How does the (re)invention of communications and communities intersect with
issues of war? How can war, totalitarianism, or torture be reconsidered
regarding transmission, translation, and transgression? Examples could
include transmission of information to communities about war via media and
visual images; translation of trauma to the body into writing or speaking;
how literature, art, creative writing, rhetoric, etc. might translate war;
and transgressions against the nation-state, religion, gender, violence, etc.

Tuning Culture: Questioning the Transmission of the Everyday to the
Foreign Eye, Ear, and Mind

Chetham’s Library, the University of Manchester, the Book History Research
Network and Martineau Johnson Solicitors are pleased to announce a one-day
interdisciplinary conference at Chetham’s Library, Manchester, entitled
‘Making Meaning from Material’.

We invite graduate students at either MA and PhD level from any discipline
to present 20 minute papers exploring the critical issues involved in their
research into the printed or the manuscript book. We particularly encourage
those wishing to discuss the intellectual, methodological and legal effects
of recent digitization projects, including EEBO and Google’s new
partnership with the Bodleian Library in Oxford.

EARLY MODERN READING: BOOKS, COMMUNITIES, CONVERSATIONS

Newcastle University, UK, 11-12 April 2008

Keynote Speakers:
• Jason Scott-Warren (Cambridge)
• Cathy Shrank (Sheffield)
• Daniel Wakelin (Cambridge)

Debating the Difference: Gender, Representation and Self-Representation

Wednesday 5th and Thursday 6th September 2007, University of Dundee, Scotland

An interdisciplinary event hosted by the Scottish Word and Image Group (SWIG) and the Women, Culture and Society Programme (WCS)

The overall aim of this conference will be to generate a nuanced and critical dialogue for assessing constructions of gender in text and image via a multi-disciplinary approach relating literary and visual media, as well as theory and practice. In addition, an exhibition will accompany the conference. It is our intention that selected papers will be published in a themed collection.

SOCIETY FOR REFORMATION RESEARCH SPONSORED SESSIONS
43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies
May 8-11, 2008
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan

We invite Papers on Reformation Literature, History, Culture for the
following sessions

Reformation I: Difficult Texts

The texts of the Reformation frequently offer vexed questions which
impact the study of the Reformation across the disciplines. Session
One invites papers on scholarly and pedagogical issues involving
problematic texts of the Reformation.

Reformation II: Problematic Figures

THE COMICS GET MEDIEVAL 2008
CALL FOR PAPERS (San Francisco 19-22 March 2008)
SPECIAL SESSION OF THE MEDIEVAL POPULAR CULTURE AREA
PROPOSALS DUE TO ORGANIZER BY 15 Oct 2007

Now in its fifth year, proposals are being accepted for inclusion at "The
Comics Get Medieval 2008," a panel and roundtable sponsored by the Medieval
Popular Culture Area of the Popular Culture Association (PCA) for the 2008
Joint Conference of the National Popular Culture and American Culture
Associations to be held from 19-22 March 2008 at the San Francisco Marriott,
San Francisco, California, USA.

Canterbury Christ Church University &
Canterbury Cathedral Archives and Library

Call for Papers for the Renaissance Colloquium:

Reading and Writing in Provincial Society 1300-1700

Saturday 22nd September 2007

'...To understand the use of the materials we are investigating within
the precise, local specific context that alone gave them meaning. This
context might be ritual, political or at once religious and national.'
Roger Chartier The Culture of Print (1989)

Seventh Portsmouth Translation Conference
  Conference Theme: Translation As Negotiation
  Date: 10 November 2007
  As translators and interpreters we engage in a range of negotiatory activities. We negotiate the frontiers and interfaces between languages and cultures; we negotiate translation issues and problems as we meet them; we negotiate rates, deadlines and briefs with clients. We also engage with the range of expectations and demands made of translators in our diverse cultures and working environments.

19th Annual Tufts University English Graduate Organization Conference
Friday, October 26, 2007

CIRCULATION

Keynote address: Professor Lauren Berlant, University of Chicago

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE:
We are all in the business of circulation: As scholars and educators,
we wrestle with an ever-evolving canon, we work to recover lost texts,
we launch websites and blogs to reach a wider audience. In the
classroom and with our colleagues, we publish, present, and stake our
claims. In short, we traffic in ideas.

Connecting the Renaissance Senses: Image ­ Space ­ Text ­ Music
 
This interdisciplinary panel or series of panels will consider the
representation of sensory experience in the arts broadly defined. The early
modern experiences of vision and touch have received significant attention
in recent studies, while those of hearing, taste and/or smell, outside
thematic treatments of the five senses or the formalized hierarchy of the
senses, remain to be more fully described. Though our particular interest
is in the sense of hearing and ideas about sound and sounding objects in the
Renaissance, we invite papers that illuminate connections among the senses

Shakespeare's presence in the 18th century—in book form, on the stage, in art—is overwhelming. This session will explore how artists have transformed Shakespeare's plays in painting or any of the visual arts. By April 30, 2007, please send proposals/abstracts to Chantelle MacPhee, Department of English, University of Puerto Rico at Cayey, Cayey, PR 00736. Email submissions are also welcome: englitgirl_at_yahoo.com.

UPDATE: Ian Duncan has been added to the list of plenary speakers due to
the unfortunate and untimely passing of Malcolm Bowie. Thanks for your
understanding.

The Novel and its Borders

3 day Conference organised by The Centre for The Novel
in association with the AHRC Institute for Irish and Scottish Studies

University of Aberdeen
 8-10 July 2008

www.abdn.ac.uk/novelconference/