![]() |
Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing
(SHARP)
SHARP 2007
Open the Book, Open the
Mind
July 11-14, 2007, with pre-conference activities July
10
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Plenary
sessions open to the public: did you hear about these sessions on
Minnesota Public Radio? Click here for more details.
View a
draft copy of the conference program.
Online registration is
now available. Visit the Registration Information page on the
left-hand side of this page for instructions.
The fifteenth annual
conference of the Society for the History of
Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) will be held in
Minneapolis at the University of Minnesota on July 11–14, 2007, with
pre-conference activities on July 10. The conference is organized in
cooperation with the 0ffice of the Senior
Vice President and Provost, University of Minnesota, and
the College of Liberal Arts; as well as the Department of English, the Institute for Advanced
Study;
The McKnight Arts and Humanities Endowment; University of Minnesota
Libraries; University of Minnesota Press;
Minneapolis
Athenaeum, Minneapolis Public Library; Minnesota Historical
Society; and Minnesota
Center for Book Arts—a part of Open Book. Other supporters
for the conference include the following organizations at the
University of Minnesota: Department of American Studies; Department of American Indian
Studies, Department of Art, Department of Art History, Center for Early Modern
History; Department of French and Italian; Department of German, Scandinavian,
and Dutch; Department of History; School of
Journalism and Mass Communication; Center for Medieval Studies;
Institute for New Media Studies;
Department of Spanish and
Portuguese; and Program in History of
Science, Technology, and Medicine.
The conference theme, “Open the Book, Open the
Mind,” will highlight how books develop and extend minds
and cultures, and also how they are opened to new media and new
purposes. However, individual papers or sessions may address any
aspect of book history and print culture.
Pre-conference Tuesday, July 10: Book Arts and Artists’
Books
A pre-conference of practical workshops and a
plenary session devoted to book arts and artists’ books will be held
at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, near the University of
Minnesota campus, on Tuesday, July 10, 2007.
Call for
Abstracts
Abstracts were accepted
online beginning September 1, 2006. The deadline for all
abstracts was November 30, 2006.
About Minneapolis and
St. Paul
Recently Minneapolis has welcomed several
outstanding new buildings for the arts and learning, including the
Guthrie Theater
(designed by Jean Nouvel), additions to both the Walker Art Center (by
Herzog & de Meuron) and Minneapolis Institute of Arts
(Michael Graves), the Minneapolis Central
Library (Cesar Pelli), as well as the Frederick R. Weisman Art
Museum (Frank Gehry). The remarkable Elmer L. Andersen Library houses one- and- a- half
million books and related archival materials in giant vaults carved
into the banks of the Mississippi River literally below the campus
of the University of Minnesota. The Andersen Library is part of the
University of Minnesota Libraries, a system that owns more than 6.2
million books. The University of Minnesota is one of the largest
university campuses in the United States. Minneapolis, where the
conference will take place, is adjacent to St. Paul, the state
capital, where the library of the Minnesota Historical Society
houses extensive print and manuscript records. Both cities boast
fine theaters, concert halls, and restaurants, as well as
outstanding parks, many of which surround lakes. More than 10,000
other lakes lie within a several hours’ drive, including vast Lake
Superior and the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, which
stretches along the Canadian border. Chicago, with its many cultural attractions,
is only 90 minutes away by plane. July is
the warmest month of the year in the Twin Cities; daily high
temperatures average 84 F (28 C).
Planning Committee
Douglas Armato,
Director, University of Minnesota Press
Thomas Augst,
Professor of English, University of Minnesota
Betty
Bright, Independent Scholar and Curator
Patrick
Coleman, Curator and Acquisitions Librarian, Minnesota
Historical Society
Edward Griffin, Professor of English,
University of Minnesota
Michael Hancher, Professor of
English, University of Minnesota - Chair
Wendy Pradt
Lougee, University Librarian, McKnight Presidential
Professor
Marcia Pankake, Professor, Academic Programs,
University of Minnesota Libraries
Donald Ross, Professor
of English, University of Minnesota
Ann Waltner,
Professor of History and Director, Institute for Advanced Study,
University of Minnesota
Program Committee
Juliette
Cherbuliez, Associate Professor of French and Italian,
University of Minnesota
Ian Gadd, Lecturer, School of
English and Creative Studies, Bath Spa University
Michael
Hancher, Professor of English, University of Minnesota -
Chair
Robert L. Patten, Professor of English, Rice
University, and President, SHARP
For more information, please contact
Heather
Dorr or Kay
Syme
612-624-4938
conferences4@cce.umn.edu
|
![]() |