Registration is now open for this year’s Bibliographical Society of Australia & New Zealand conference Connecting the Colonies: Empires and Networks in the History of the Book, to be held in Hobart, Tasmania, 22-24 November 2017. A provisional list of speakers is below.
http://www.bsanz.org/conferences
The BSANZ members rate is available until 30 October; general registrations will remain open until 6 November.
Keynote speaker
- Professor Rodney M Thomson, University of Tasmania. Topic to be confirmed
Panelists
- Keith Adkins, Theophilus Anglicanus and the fear of Tractarianism in Van Diemen’s Land
- Eric Anderson, Cheap books, bad books
- Samir de Angelo, The book object: the book used as a response to missionary authority by the Amerindians of the northwest Amazon
- Rachael Bell, Staking a claim: New Zealand’s Official Histories of the Second World War
- Sally Bloomfield, The long reach of a little bushranger book: Michael Howe, the Last and Worst of the Bush Rangers of Van Diemen’s Land
- Helen Bones, The ARCHivER project and the rise and fall of the Tasman writing world
- Dennis Bryans, English Monotype: providing services to the Empire and beyond
- Damian Cairns, For Church and College
- Liz Conor, Peripheral vision: recurring colonial imagery of Aboriginal Australians as framing devices
- Joanna Cruickshank, ‘The constant demand for sermons’: print sermons and religious networks in Australia, 1788-1888
- Gillian Dooley, Matthew Flinders, Sir Joseph Banks and Robert Brown: the Library at Soho Square
- Veronique Duche, Treasured possessions in Australian Rare Books collections
- Penny Edmonds, ‘The British Government is now awaking’: frontier violence, Aboriginal protection, and Backhouse’s early colonial distribution of the 1837 Report of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Aboriginal Tribes
- Mary Jane Edwards, Transnational connections: the Moodies, the Stricklands, and their Canadian, English, and South African publications
- Simon Farley, Notes from Empire’s end: the diary of a Turkish soldier
- Elizabeth Freeman, Thirteenth-century English Cistercian nunneries and their cartularies
- Clare Gleeson, Owner bound volumes: a musical transmitter of culture
- Jocelyn Hargrave, ‘Errors therein marked on the margin’: John Degotardi’s The Art of Printing and editorial practice in nineteenth-century Australia
- Mark Houlahan, The Shakespearean Quarterly 1922-1924
- Sandra Hudd, Writing for the folks back home: colonial missionary story-telling
- Annaliese Jacobs, The silence of Wellington Channel: contested archives and the search for HMS Erebus and Terror, 1850-1851
- Donald Kerr, ‘The charms that a savage life holds’: Sir George Grey’s frontier experiences
- Wallace Kirsop, Providing printed matter for multicultural Australia in the nineteenth century
- Amanda Laugesen, Dictionaries in the Australian colonies: a history
- Cecilia Leong-Salobir, Cookbooks and the printing press in Britain and colonial Asia
- Robin Macdonald, ‘Bound in leather, rather than parchment, to last longer’: nuns as discerning readers in seventeenth-century Quebec
- Alicia Marchant, Boundaries and books: St Albans, Wales and the transmission of knowledge
- Ruth Mollison, Converting flora and fauna into books: scientific collecting in colonial Tasmania
- Kevin Molloy & Katie Flack, The Waifs and Strays of Sea Life: Melbourne printer Michael T Gason and the Voyage of the Tudor, 1857
- Kathryn Parsons, That bright little New Zealand annual The Huia
- Georgia Prince, Florence Nightingale and Sir George Grey: colleagues of empire
- Sarah Randles, ‘Many a treasure more’: Robert Bedford and the Kyancutta Magna Carta
- Sydney Shep, Personal geographies and global networks: William Colenso and the Victorian Republic of Letters
- Merete Colding Smith, Australia and New Zealand in nineteenth-century British children’s books
- Jane Stafford, Mrs Muter and the construction of the lady traveller
- Rodney Swan, Matisse’s Jazz: the enigma of his text
- Nicki Tarulevicz, Learning to fear: textual encounters with food safety in Singapore
- Evija Trofimova, The twilight zone of Soviet books
- Hayley Webster, Circulating scientific literature: the development of the Museum Victoria library collection