Du 24 juin 2008 au 26 juin 2008
Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies, Oxford, UK
Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing International Conference
Hosted by the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies
(ah.brookes.ac.uk/conference/sharp2008/)
Oxford, England
June 24 - June 26, 2008
This year’s conference theme, Teaching and the Text, is an appropriate opportunity to highlight SHARP’s commitment to digital humanities projects, tools or techniques or work in progress. The session also encourages proposals from any college or university digital humanities program, center or group to present a poster that overviews their program. Posters may include a demonstration, traditional printed poster or a combination of both.
A brief bio and short abstracts (250-300 words) should be submitted to Katherine D. Harris (kharris@email.sjsu.edu) before November 25, 2007. Please include any technical requirements (e.g., Internet access). This panel will undergo the normal review procedure by the SHARP conference committee. One participant for each proposal must be a member of SHARP prior to the conference.
Founded in 1991, the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing is a global network of literary scholars, historians, librarians, booksellers, and publishing professionals. With more than 1,000 members in over 20 countries, SHARP works in concert with a number of affiliated scholarly organizations around the world to encourage the study of book history.
The conference theme, Teaching and Text, reflects the historical and contemporary position of Oxford as a seat of learning and a centre of academic and professional publishing. It will be developed through an opening plenary lecture by Professor Juliet Gardiner (author of Wartime Britain 1939-1945), by a panel on the History of Oxford University Press led by Professor Simon Eliot (Chair in the History of the Book at the School of Advanced Studies, University of London), and a final plenary panel chaired by Professor John Barnard (Emeritus Professor of English Literature, University of Leeds), and featuring as panellists Dr. David McKitterick (Librarian and Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge); Dr. Peter McDonald (Rank Fellow and University Lecturer in English Language and Literature, St Hugh’s College, Oxford); Dr. Sydney Shep (Senior Lecturer in Print & Book Culture and The Printer, Wai-te-ata Press, Victoria University of Wellington); and Professor Kathryn Sutherland (Professor of Bibliography and Textual Criticism, St Anne’s College, Oxford). Further plenary sessions will be announced later. The AGM will be hosted by Oxford University Press, and followed by a reception. Additional social events will include a banquet at Magdalen College and receptions at Blackwells Bookshop and the Bodleian Library.
