Conference announcement for annual meeting of the Society for the History of
Authorship, Reading and Publishing. (http://www.sharpweb.org/)

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>> CALL FOR PAPERS FOR SHARP 2002
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>> 10-13 July 2002 University of London
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>> The tenth annual conference of the Society for the History of
>> Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) will be held in London
>> between 10th and 13th July 2002. The lead institution is the Institute
>> of English Studies in the School of Advanced Study, University of London
>> (www.sas.ac.uk/ies) ; the British Library (www.bl.uk/) and the Wellcome
>> Library (www.wellcome.ac.uk/library) are co-organisers.
>>
>> Sessions will take place in Senate House (the administrative and
>> academic centre of the federal University of London in which the
>> prestigious University of London Library is housed), and in the British
>> Library and in the Wellcome Library. Apart from the usual panel and
>> plenary sessions there will be opportunities to visit archives,
>> libraries and others sites of interest in and around London (including
>> the publishers' archives at the University of Reading).
>>
>> In the SHARP tradition, we welcome proposals for individual papers and
>> entire sessions dealing with the creation, diffusion, or reception of
>> the written or printed word or image in any historical period or place.
>> We also seek to draw on the particular interests and strengths of the
>> institutions organising the conference. To this end there are two
>> specific themes on which we would particularly welcome submissions. The
>> first is the history of the medical book; the second is digitization as
>> it impinges on book history.
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>> Each panel will usually last one-and-a-half hours and will consist of
>> three papers. Each paper should last a maximum of twenty minutes, thus
>> allowing ten minutes discussion of each paper. Proposals for individual
>> papers should be the equivalent of one page maximum (i.e. 450 words),
>> giving the paper title, a short abstract and brief biographical
>> identification. Session proposals should include a cover sheet
>> explaining the theme and goals and separate sheets for each paper.
>>
>> A small number of travel grants will be available to trainee scholars
>> (those currently writing PhD theses) and to independent scholars (those
>> who are not members of institutions which would normally be expected to
>> support travel to an academic conference). If you wish to be considered
>> for such a grant you should indicate this at the end of your proposal.
>> Please note that we always receive more applications for grants than we
>> have grants to give.
>>
>> The deadline for submissions is Wednesday 31 October 2001. Proposals
>> should be sent by email, if possible, to:
>>
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>> Those who do not have access to email should send a hard copy of the
>> proposal to:
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>> SHARP 2002, Room 308, IES, School of Advanced Study, Senate House, Malet
>> Street, London WC1E 7HU, UK.
>>
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