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:

• Print and manuscript culture in early modern Europe, the Global South, and the Americas
• Materiality and textual studies, including micro-, meso-, and macro-level investigations into text and paratext, both synchronic and diachronic
• Book history writ large: the historical bibliography of specific books, stationers or syndicates and their bookshops and printing houses, print agents within particular book trades, and related subjects
• New directions, findings, and methodologies in the histories of books, bookmaking, book collecting, reading, and book trades
• Gender and its intersections with books, stationers, book trades, and readers (e.g., widow printers and booksellers, women apprentices)

For individual papers, please submit an abstract (150 words maximum) and a one-page CV. For pre-formed panels, please submit a session title (15 words maximum), a short description of the panel, and paper abstracts and one-page CVs for each panelist. Please send all documents to BSA–RSA representative Andreas P. Bassett (andreas.bassett@sjsu.edu) by July 15, 2026.