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News 2008
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| Conference |
‘The Book in Transition: The Printed Book in the Post-Incunabula Age' at the University of St Andrews, 3-5 September 2008. Bursaries are available for postgraduate students. For more information and registration form, please click here. |
| Conference |
The Manuscript and Printed Book in Germany, 2 May 2008, Boardroom of the National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, a conference organized by The Scottish Centre for the Book, Napier University and the National Library of Scotland, with the support of the Consul General of Germany. |
| Seminar |
Seminar on Textual Bibliography for Modern Foreign Languages, 2 June 2008, The British Library. Details and registration form may be found here. |
| Grants |
Results of the Society's fifteenth competition for research grants have been announced. Details may be found here. |
| Lecture |
Announcing the 13th Annual D. F. McKenzie Lecture:
Professor Isabel Hofmeyr (University of Witwatersrand, South Africa)
'Gandhi's Printing Press: Print Cultures of the Indian Ocean'
Venue: Lecture Theatre 2, St Cross Building, English Faculty, Oxford University
5.00 p.m., Wednesday, 16 January 2008
Professor Hofmeyr will also lead a seminar the following day:
Venue: History of the Book Room, St Cross Building, Oxford University
12noon, Thursday, 17 January 2008 |
| Lectures |
Designer Bookbinders - Lectures 2007- 2008
The programme of lectures is available to download from the following links:
Word document
PDF document
Further details from Julia Dummett and Rachel Ward-Sale: 01273 486718 Website: www.designerbookbinders.org.uk.
E-mail: lectures@designerbookbinders.org.uk |
| archive evening |
'“Supper being Ended …”: Feasting and Music' at Stationers' Hall, Monday 14 January 2008, 5.30 - 9.30 p.m. Please click here for a registration form. |
| forthcoming publications |
Richard Gameson, The Earliest Books of Canterbury Cathedral
London: The Bibliographical Society and The British Library, in association with the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury, 2008.
416 pages (including index and bibliography); 63 colour illustrations Hardback (buckram); colour jacket
Price:
Full published price: £60
Pre-publication price (until 31 December 2007): £40
(Bibliographical Society members will receive a free copy; additional copies £30)
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| conference |
Collecting Revolution: The History and Importance of the Thomason Tracts
Date: 30 June - 1 July 2008
Venue: British Library / University College London
The pamphlet collection amassed by the London bookseller George Thomason is of unparalleled importance, and has helped to ensure that the civil wars and interregnum remain central to the study of British history. Nevertheless, this is generally reflected in scholarly exploitation of the tracts, rather than in critical analysis of them. This conference seeks to explore a variety of approaches to the Thomason collection, including the man and his milieu, his role as a publisher and bookseller, his aims and methods as a collector, the fate of his collection, and its significance to subsequent generations of scholars. Speakers: Sabrina Baron, Maureen Bell, Michael Braddick, David Como, Ann Hughes, Keith Lindley, Giles Mandelbrote, Jason McElligott, Michael Mendle, Jason Peacey, Joad Raymond, Julian Roberts, David Stoker, Elliot Vernon, and Steven Zwicker
Contact: j.peacey@ucl.ac.uk
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| call for papers |
THE SECOND ANNUAL MAKING BOOKS, SHAPING READERS CONFERENCE: 2nd-4th April 2008: University College Cork http://www.ucc.ie/en/mbsr ; mbsr@ucc.ie
Conference Theme: Shaping Readers: Selection and Editing
Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Professor Alistair McCleery, Co-Director of SAPPHIRE, Professor of Literature and Culture at Napier University, and co-editor of The Book History Reader
Following on from the success of last year’s conference, the Making Books, Shaping Readers project at the Department of English, University College Cork, invite submissions for twenty-minute papers on the theme Shaping Readers: Selection and Editing. We encourage individual proposals as well as suggestions for panels.
The conference will explore the editor’s role in shaping the material we read, which in turn shapes our reception of the text. Editions of texts are at the core of all research in the humanities, and our readings of, and responses to, texts are often subtly shaped by editorial decisions and selections. Editorial processes are not objective or neutral, and frequently happen without comment. Papers might focus on, but are not limited to, some of the following:
• What is an editor?
• Textual ‘corruption’
• Authorial intention
• Editing as interpretation
• The social text
• The role of the publisher
• Textual variants
• The reader as editor
• The role of technology
• Theories of selection and compilation
• The effect of selection and editing on materiality
• Anthologies, scholarly editions and canon formation
In keeping with the interdisciplinary nature of the project, we invite papers from scholars in all disciplines. Selected papers may be included in a an edited volume. Accepted abstracts will be published on our website prior to the conference. Abstracts (300-500 words) should be sent to the organisers: Dr Graham Allen, Dr Siobhán Collins, Dr Carrie Griffin, and Mary O’ Connell at mbsr@ucc.ie no later than 14th January 2008.
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| call for papers |
SEMINAR ON TEXTUAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
FOR MODERN FOREIGN LANGUAGES
Monday, 2 June 2008 in the Conference Centre,
the British Library
We are seeking four or five papers of approx. 30 minutes each, one at 11.15 a.m. and the others after lunch, with ample time for discussion after each paper. Papers dealing with any aspect of printing and book production in Continental Eastern and Western Europe are warmly invited, as are papers dealing with other aspects of historical bibliography, editing, and the history of the book and reading. Papers giving an account of work in progress or offers to introduce discussion of bibliographical interest are a long-standing feature of the seminar.
Please let us know by the end of April if you are willing to give a paper.
We should be grateful if you would send us the names and addresses of potential new participants in the seminar, especially postgraduate students.
Barry Taylor (tel 020 7412 7576)
Susan Reed (tel 020 7412 7311 / 7572) |
| book release |
Books on the Move: Tracking Copies through Collections and the Book Trade Edited by Robin Myers, Michael Harris and Giles Mandelbrote
Oak Knoll and The British library are happy to announce the newest book in the Publishing Pathway series. In this volume, leading specialists in book history explore the journeys that books have taken through the European book network, using examples from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. It includes chapters on the destruction and rediscovery of manuscripts, the dispersal of various libraries and collections, the survival of books of hours and more. Available October 2007; pre-order your copy today from Oak Knoll Books. |
| Pantzer Fellowship |
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electronic publications |
The Society is now engaging in electronic publication of certain key resources. John Dee's Library Catalogue: additions and corrections by Julian Roberts and Andrew G. Watson is now available through the website. The London Book Trades: A Bibliographical Resource by Michael L. Turner, with over 30,000 entries from the 23 June, 2008 e-repository (hosted by the Institute of English Studies). |
The Library |
Electronic content of the The Library is available online to members. |
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