Networking

ocial Networking sites are increasingly important to how SHARP members interact and communicate! Here we list Facebook, Twitter, and other sites where our liasons are providing content. You'll find a brief description of each activity, along with other information, such as about how to get on a liaison’s feed. Please contact us with new suggestions and updates.

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Liaison News

SHARP at South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA)
Liaison: Melissa Makala

Posted through June 1, 2013

CFP: SHARP at SAMLA 2013

Papers are invited for the SHARP affiliate session at the 2013 SAMLA Convention. Potential topics include print culture, history of the book, authorship, publishing history, publishers’ archives, circulation, and reception. Papers addressing this year’s theme, “Cultures, Contexts, Images, Texts: Making Meaning in Print, Digital, and Networked Worlds,” are especially welcome. The 85th annual SAMLA Convention will be held 8-10 November 2013 in Atlanta, Georgia, at the Marriott Atlanta Buckhead Hotel & Conference Center. For more information about the convention, visit SAMLA’s website (http://samla.memberclicks.net/).

By June 1, 2013, please email a 350-word abstract and short biography (including contact information) to SHARP liaison Melissa Makala, University of South Carolina, at Esta dirección electrónica esta protegida contra spambots. Es necesario activar Javascript para visualizarla .

Proposers need not be members of SHARP in order to submit, but presenters will need to be members of both SAMLA and SHARP. More details about the session will be posted on the Networking page later this summer.

CFP: Bibliography and Textual Criticism Panel
SAMLA, November 8-10, 2013

The Bibliography and Textual Criticism panel welcomes 15-minute papers related to textual studies, bibliography, the history of the book, authorship, rare books, paratextuality, publishing history, circulation and reader reception, and the study of archives, books, or texts as material objects. The convention theme of “Cultures, Contexts, Images, Texts: Making Meaning in Print, Digital, and Networked Worlds” is particularly relevant to this standing session, so papers addressing the theme are especially welcome.

By June 1, 2013, please email a 300-word abstract and short biography to Jeffrey Makala, University of South Carolina, at makalaj [at] mailbox.sc.edu.

SHARP at Modern Language Association (MLA)
Liaison: Greg Barnhisel

Posted through 01/15/2014

SHARP Affiliate Organization Panel at MLA Chicago, 2014: Books and the Law
From Star Chamber to the Google Books settlement, authorities have always monitored and regulated the written word through decrees and laws. As communications technologies changed, the laws governing the creation, production, and reception of written works changed as well. For its affiliate-organization panel at MLA 2014, SHARP is seeking papers that explore aspects of the relationship between readers, writers, publishers, printers, booksellers, and the law. Potential topics could include printers’ guilds, copyright, sedition and blasphemy, legal texts and the study of the law, censorship, patents on printing equipment, legal regulation of specific genres, literature in the courts, the law in literature, or labor law in print shops.

One does not need to be a member of SHARP to submit a proposal, but presenters will need to be members of both SHARP and MLA. 250-word abstracts and brief CVs to Greg Barnhisel (barnhiselg [at] duq.edu) by March 15.

SHARP Affiliate Organization Panel at MLA Chicago, 2014: Book History and Virginia Woolf
Jointly sponsored with the International Virginia Woolf Society. Virginia Woolf, book history and arts; Woolf and letterpress, bookbinding, book arts; depictions of the material book or printing process in Woolf; or bibliographical or manuscript based studies

One does not need to be a member of SHARP to submit a proposal, but one does need to be a member of SHARP and/or the International Virginia Woolf Society as well as MLA to present on this panel. 250-word abstracts and brief CVs to Greg Barnhisel (barnhiselg [at] duq.edu) by March 8.

See Call for Papers for both of these panels.

Now available is a List of 2013 MLA Convention Panels which may be of interest to SHARP members.

Now available is a List of 2013 MLA Convention Panels which may be of interest to SHARP members.

Liaison for Germany
Liaison: Corinna Norrick-Rühl

Posted through 12/15/2013

As regional liaison for Germany, I’d like to give you an outlook on some of the activities planned for 2013 in German-speaking countries in the area of book and publishing studies/history.

1. The Gutenberg-Institute for Book Studies in Mainz will be holding a symposium on “Green Publishing” in January 2013 (1/24-25). We look forward to discussing sustainability and greener reading with scholars and book industry specialists (the German-language program can be found here: http://www.buchwissenschaft.uni-mainz.de/fileadmin/Dokumente/Flyer_Kolloquium_2013_Green_publishing.pdf).
2. In April (4/25-27), the Gutenberg-Institute for Book Studies will be holding a conference on the history of the Ullstein publishing house. The program has not been published yet, but we will be happy to keep you posted (please feel free to send me an email if you’d like to receive the flyer).
3. In May (5/9-10), there will be a SHARP-sponsored network conference in Freiburg. Proposals can be submitted till the end of the year – more info can be found here: http://www.sharpweb.org/images/PDFdocs/NetworkConferenceFreiburg2013.pdf
4. In August (8/1-2), the IBG Young Scholars of the Internationale Buchwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft will meet in Erlangen. The topic of the meeting will be the book as a commodity and cultural value. Papers can be submitted till the end of the year: http://www.buchwiss.de/files/cfp_3._ibg_young_scholars_2013.pdf
5. In November (11/7-8), the IBG (Internationale Buchwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft) will hold its annual meeting in St. Gall (Switzerland). The topic of the two-day conference will be plagiarism. More information will follow in the course of the coming year.

Please let me know if you’d like more information on any of these events and I will be happy to put you in touch with the organizers.

Blogs

A Beautiful Book "Information architecture explained by its past" (Paul Dijstelberge)
BibliOdyssey Books, illustrations, science, history, visual materia obscura, eclectic bookart
Comics and Graphic Narratives. MLA discussion group blog
Digital Scholarship @ the Library (The Ohio State University)
Early Modern Online Bibliography (Anna Battigelli (SUNY Plattsburgh) and Eleanor Shevlin (West Chester University of Pennsylvania)
The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe, 1769-1794 (Leeds University) Studying the history of the book trade and dissemination of ideas in the late Enlightenment
The Houghton Library Blog (John Overholt, Harvard)
Le manuscrit médiéval ~ The Medieval Manuscript (Jean-Luc Deuffic)
Textual Studies, 1500-1800 (Kevin Curran)
Typefoundry: Documents for the History of Types and Letterforms (James Mosley)