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Courses, Study Opportunities

Application Date Description
*15 Dec 2011 Paper and Book Intensive
Ox-bow, Saugatuck, Michigan
See website for full description. *Apply beginning 15 Dec 2011
01 Mar 2012 Visual Culture of the American Civil War
NEH Summer Institute for College and University Teachers
American Social History Project - Graduate Center CUNY
Meets 9 - 20 July 2012
01 Mar 2012 Tudor Books and Readers: 1485-1603 (NEH Seminar)
Meets 18 June-20 July 2012 in Antwerp, London, and Oxford
01 Mar 2012 Jane Austen and Her Contemporaries (NEH Seminar)
University of Missouri at Columbia
Meets June 18-July 20, 2012
09 Mar 2012 Warwick-Newberry Summer Workshop
Reading Publics in 15th- and 16th-Century Renaissance Europe Vernacular Literature, Platonism, Philosophy, and Medicine
University of Warwick, Coventry, England
Open to advanced graduate students and early postdoctoral scholars (See website for details)
13 Mar 2012 African American Cultures of Print
AAS Sumer Seminar in the History of the Books
Meets July 8 - 13, 2012 in Worcester, Massachusetts at AAS
01 Jun 2012 London Rare Book School
Meets 25 - 29 June 2012 and 2 - 6 July 2012
See the Website for more information
See site Rare Book School
University of Virginia
Full course schedule available online
*15 June 2012 California Rare Book School
*(Scholarship application deadline: 15 June 2012
See CalRBS
See site Seminar Series on Book Collecting 2012
Centre for Manuscript and Print Studies (CMPS) in the Institute of English Studies and the Antiquarian Booksellers Association (ABA)
 

Conferences, Calls for Papers

Submission Date Description
24 Feb 2012 Literature and Censorship: Australasian Association for Literature
Queries and submission of titles and abstracts to Shirley Ramsay at s.ramsay [at] adfa.edu.au

01 Mar 2012

Moden Language Association
Theme: Printing Science
SHARP Affiliate Panel CFP

01 Mar 2012 Pre-Conference on the History of ASIST and Information Science and Technology
Subject: History of ASIST or of information science and technology
Queries to: Robert V. Williams at bobwill [at] sc.edu
Submissions (1000-word abstracts) to: http://www.softconf.com/asist2/Hist_Pre_Con/
01 Mar 2012 Documenting Democracy
Association for Documentary Editing Annual Meeting
See Call for Papers
01 Mar 2012 Digital Dictionaries
Lexicography Discussion Group--MLA Annual Meeting, 2013
Abstracts and queries to Michael Hancher at mh [at] umn.edu
10 Mar 2012 Gender and Literacies in Early Modern England
Renaissance English Text Society panel at Modern Language Association Annual Conference (2013)
Session abstracts and queries to Elizabeth Hageman (ehageman [at] cisunix.unh.edu) and Jaime Goodrich (goodrija [at] wayne.edu)
10 Mar 2012 Do-it-Yourself Comics
Proposed panel at the Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention, 3-6 Jan. 2013
Sponsored by the MLA Discussion Group on Comics and Graphic Narratives

15 Mar 2012

Moden Language Association
Theme: Printing Science
SHARP Affiliate Panel
Abstracts to Greg Barnhisel ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )

15 Mar 2012

Moden Language Association
Theme: Print and Beyond: Publishing Rossetti, Morris and the Aesthetes
SHARP Affiliate Panel with William Morris Society
Queries and abstracts to Greg Barnhisel ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )

31 Mar 2012 Reconfiguring Authorship
Conference - Ghent University, Belgium
See Call for Papers
01 Apr 2012 Romantic Voyagers - Voyaging Romantics
Victoria University of Wellington and the Alexander Turnbull Library
250-word proposals and queries to Heidi Thomson (heidi.thomson [at ] vuw.ac.nz)
06 Apr 2012 Literature & Censorship
Australasian Association for Literature
Submit titles and abstracts via conference website
30 Apr 2012 Texts and Textiles
Centre for Material Texts at Cambridge
Send 250-word proposals for 20-minute papers to Jason Scott-Warren (jes1003 [at] cam.ac.uk) and Lucy Razzall (lmfr2 [at] cam.ac.uk)
01 May 2012 Gender and Literacies in Early Modern England
Renaissance English Text Society panel at Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference (2013)
Session abstracts and queries to Elizabeth Hageman (ehageman [at] cisunix.unh.edu) and Jaime Goodrich (goodrija [at] wayne.edu)
03 Aug 2012 Buildings, Books & Blackboards: Intersecting Narratives
Submit 250 word abstract to: Dr. Sue Reynolds (see CFP, linked above)
01 Feb 2013 Gender and Literacies in Early Modern England
Renaissance English Text Society panel at Sixteenth Century Studies Conference (2013)
Session abstracts and queries to Elizabeth Hageman (ehageman [at] cisunix.unh.edu) and Jaime Goodrich (goodrija [at] wayne.edu)
 

Contribute to Publications, Research

Submission Date Description
31 Mar 2012 Variants: The Journal of the European Society for Textual Scholarship
Topic: Theory and practice of textual scholarship and scholarly editing from a comparative and/or European perspective
See website for more details
01 May 2012 Distinctions that Matter: Popular Literature and Material Culture
Belphegor. See website for more details
12 Jun 2012 Victorian Periodicals Review
Theme: "Work and Leisure"
Queries to: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
See journal site Bibliodiversité(s)
(in English)
See journal site Authorship
A peer-reviewed, open access e-journal, welcoming articles in English on the cultural performance of authorship in any contemporary or historical literary milieu
See publication site Dictionary of 19th Century Journalism
Coverage on local and regional press for online edition and subsequent print editions
More information: DNCJ
List of entries requiring contributors
See Call for Papers East Asian Publishing and Society
2 x per year; Any aspect of publishing history
See journal site Guild of Bookworkers Journal
Guidelines
Annual Publication
See journal site Journal of Reception Studies
See journal site Library & Archival Security
Issues for Jan-Jun 2012 on the War of 1812
For more information contact the Editor, Christopher Brown-Syed
See website Library of the Written Word
Peer-reviewed book series related to the history of the book
Submit proposals to Stephanie Paalvast; include your name, affiliation, a tentative title, a brief description of the contents, and its aim and scope.
See journal site Logos
International forum for professionals in publishing, bookselling, librarians, authors and others
See publisher's site Material Readings in Early Modern Culture
Ashgate Publishing
Series Editors: Dr James Daybell, University of Plymouth, UK and
Dr Adam Smyth, University of London, UK
See publisher's site Oak Knoll Press
Publishers of books about books
See project site Reading Experience Database Project
On-going research, to accumulate data about the reading experiences of readers of all nationalities in Britain and those of British subjects abroad from 1450 to 1945
See SHARP News SHARP News Reviewers
Reviewers needed for books, exhibitions, and conferences
See journal site Journal of Literature, Culture and Literary Translation ">[sic]Journal of Literature, Culture and Literary Translation
An international platform for scholars, practitioners and artists dealing with literature, culture and literary translation
See project site Transcribe Bentham Project
A crowdsourcing transcription project
Begin transcribing
See the list of Selected Journals for more publications.
 
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