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How have differences/exchanges of power within colonial publishing circuits determined emergent shapes of postcolonial publishing and markets? 300-word abstracts by March 15, 2017 Kerry Manzo (kerry.manzo@ttu.edu) and Joya Mannan (joya.mannan@ttu.edu)
In recent decades there has been a gradual yet dramatic shift in the means by which scholars engage with literary archives, as the widespread digitization of manuscript texts and the comprehensive shift to digital research tools has changed the nature of scholarly routes into archival material. There has also been a simultaneous shift within archives themselves, as the increasing prevalence of born-digital works necessitates radical changes in methods of curation and preservation.
Papers are invited for the SHARP affiliate session at the 2017 South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) Convention. Potential topics include print culture, history of the book, authorship, publishing history, ephemera, illustration, publishers’ archives, production, circulation, and reception. Papers addressing this year’s convention theme,“High Art/Low Art Borders and Boundaries in Popular Culture,” are especially welcome. What connections can be made between print culture/book history and the diverse world of popular culture? How has print culture reflected popular taste from the early modern world to the present?
Possible topics include:
Genre fiction
Sensation fiction
Science fiction
Gothic
Special Issue Call for Papers
Archives, authority, aura: Modernism’s archival turn
Edited by Naomi Milthorpe, University of Tasmania
Deadline for submissions: 31 January 2018
The Society for the Study of Rebecca Harding Davis and Her World welcomes proposals for two sessions at the next meeting of the American Literature Association. The conference will be held May 25-28, 2017 in Boston, MA. For further information about the conference, please consult the ALA website at www.americanliterature.org.
NEH Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers
The Formation and Re-formation of the Book: 1450-1650
Event Type: Academic Conference, 11-13 September, 2017
Location: University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
Organiser: Dr Nathan Waddell, University of Nottingham
At the 2005 annual meeting of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Gregory L. Ulmer reminded conference-goers of the importance of understanding our relationships to writing and print, the apparatus from which our identities, perspectives, theories and practices emerge. Over the course of thirty years and eight books, Ulmer has called for us not only to be aware of the emerging apparatus he dubbed “electracy” but also to help invent and shape it.
This proposed panel will attempt to collect perspectives about literary tourism, particularly regarding immigrant and ethnic communities from the nineteenth century to the present. The late 1830s and early 1840s marked the beginning of the tourist industry in North America, particularly in the Northeast United States. Representing the scores of European travelers upon his tour of the United States in 1842, Charles Dickens wrote about the visual splendor of Boston’s private houses, the State House, the Boston Common, and its immigrant populations. New York City, meanwhile, welcomed nearly 70,000 tourists annually by the mid 1830s, as travelers visited Manhattan’s noted parks and churches as well as its hidden slums.
Special-Issue Proposal Guidelines
Papers on Language and Literature is seeking proposals for special issues on subjects including but not limited to
Digital Humanities
Film
Literary Translation
Print Culture
PLL is a generalist publication that is committed to publishing work on a variety of literatures, languages, and chronological periods. We accept proposals year-round. We are a quarterly and expect to publish a special issue once a year, every year. The specific volume and issue will be determined later, depending on the editors’ schedule.
Approaching Variation
Between Readers and Reception
The 29th Annual Stony Brook English Graduate Conference
Keynote: James Phelan, The Ohio State University
24 February 2017
organized by
Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini (Lucca)
Lucca, Complesso Monumentale di San Micheletto
24-26 November 2017
Call for Papers
On the 200th anniversary of what remains one of the most remarkable launches in British periodical history, scholars of Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, British literary periodicals, and Scottish politics and culture will gather in Edinburgh for two days of debate about the magazine’s highs and lows, its wide cultural impact, and its enduring legacies in literary history.
Making and Collecting - University of Virginia - April 7-9, 2017
Making and Collecting
April 7-9, 2017
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Keynote: Bill Brown (University of Chicago)
Lunchtime symposium hosted by Bill Brown and Cynthia Wall (University of Virginia)
**DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JANUARY 20, 2017**
Making and Collecting
April 7-9, 2017
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Keynote: Bill Brown (University of Chicago)
Lunchtime symposium hosted by Bill Brown and Cynthia Wall (University of Virginia)
The Twenty-Ninth Annual Spring Symposium of the Medieval Studies Institute of Indiana University
3–4 March, 2017
Indiana University, Bloomington
Call for proposals
[With apologies for cross-posting.]
A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Literary Illustration
Volume I: Approaches
Edited by Leigh G. Dillard and Christina Ionescu
The Early Modern Iberia Study Group at the University of Pennsylvania invites abstracts for its 2017 Graduate Symposium on the theme of Passages. This one-day graduate symposium will take place on April 22nd, 2017, with a keynote address by Prof. Seth Kimmel (Columbia).
If you have a scholarly essay dealing with any number of topics, please consider submitting it in article form to Pacific Coast Philology (PCP), PAMLA’s journal. PCP is a refereed journal published by the Pennsylvania State University Press. It is highly respected as a scholarly venue and has been established for over a half-century. The link to PCP's editors is available at http://www.pamla.org/pacific-coast-philology.
Formalism and Its Discontents, An Interdisciplinary Conference
23-24 February, 2017
Center for Cultural Analysis, Rutgers University
With keynote presentations by:
Caroline Levine
Professor of English and David and Kathleen Ryan Professor of Humanities
Cornell University
Author of Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network (Princeton University Press, 2015)
and
Seth Brodsky
Assistant Professor of Music and the Humanities
University of Chicago
Author of From 1989, or European Music and the Modernist Unconscious (University of California Press, forthcoming 2016)
Reworking Walter Scott
31st March – 2nd April 2017, University of Dundee
Abstracts due: 16th December 2016
Plenary Speaker: Professor Alison Lumsden
The conference “Visual design: the periodical page as a designed surface”is concerned with the visual design of the Journal, taken to mean the whole spectrum of periodical print publications, including amongst others newspapers and magazines. Interest is thus focused on the periodical page (or double-page spread) as a visible printed surface on which words and images appear in a designed context. The premise is that the written and pictorial content of the periodical are not realized in abstraction (as disembodied and placeless), but remain tied to the materiality of the periodical, which provides for a two-dimensional and sequential arrangement of diverse visual elements.
Twentieth-Century British Periodicals: Words and Art on the Printed Page, 1900-1999
4 July 2017
Museum of English Rural Life, University of Reading, Redlands Road, Reading, UK
Current scholarship on twentieth-century periodicals is moving beyond the study of the ‘little’ magazine and avant-garde publications. Many mainstream and specialist periodicals, including tabloids, broadsheets, illustrated newspapers, illustrated magazines, fashion magazines, ‘slick’ magazines, women’s magazines, art periodicals, trade and specialist periodicals, pulps, reviews, and political and campaigning magazines have yet to receive sustained critical attention.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Book History & Print Culture Student Colloquium: 11 March, 2017 University of Toronto
so many blinding bright lights,
splashing all over the pages
in a million bits and pieces
all of which were words, words, words
From Dylan Thomas, “Notes on the Art of Poetry”
Form, Function, Intent: Materiality and the Codification of Knowledge
Following the theme of this year’s Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, this panel seeks to explore what the forthcoming years of scholarship might hold for early modern studies. The two papers in this panel examine topics of renewed interest that promise to have a renaissance of their own in future years. Grace Ioppolo’s forthcoming collected works of Thomas Heywood promises to usher in a renewed interest in the playwright, and the Map of Early Modern London project’s goal to produce the first complete anthology of the mayoral shows will make these texts accessible to scholars and students in an open access digital format.
We are pleased to announce the 25th annual conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP). SHARP 2017: “Technologies of the Book,” will be held in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, from Friday, June 9th to Monday, June 12th, 2017. SHARP 2017 will take place in conjunction with the annual Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI; dhsi.org), which runs from June 5th-9th and June 12th-16th 2017.
Uses of the Past: Cultural Memory in and of the Middle Ages
The Twenty-Ninth Annual Spring Symposium of the Medieval Studies Institute of Indiana University
3–4 March, 2017
Indiana University, Bloomington
The Confidential Clerk (ISSN 2454-6100), an open-access and peer-reviewed journal of the Centre for Victorian Studies, Jadavpur University, seeks contributions for its 2016/17 issue on Victorian Material Culture.
Concept Note
Bibliography Among the DisciplinesPhiladelphia, PA 12-15 October 2017Proposal deadline extended to 15 November 2016: rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017