Free Places on Specialist Research Training on the History of the Book.

The Universities of Keele, Manchester and Leicester, with funding from
the 
AHRC, have joined forces to host a research training course for PGR
students 
on the History of the Book. The week-long residential course, based at
St 
Deiniol's home to the Gladstone Library in Hawarden, North Wales,
includes key note lectures and workshop from leading scholars in the
field and includes work with the rare books and archives at Chetham's
Library, the John Rylands Library and local record offices. Speakers
include David Pearson (Librarian, University of London), Dr Peter
McDonald (University of Oxford), Professor Martin Stannard (University
of Leicester), Professor Ann Hughes (University of Keele), Professor
Brian Maidment (University of Salford), Professor David Adams and
Professor Adrian Armstrong (University of Manchester). The course will
provide an intensive introduction to the theoretical and practical
issues in the new histories of the book, examining current scholarship
in the area (such as the work of Don McKenzie, Robert Darnton, Jerome
McGann and Roger Chartier), as well as showing students how to develop
their skills as users of a wide range of printed forms (broadsides,
ballads, and ephemera as well as books), manuscripts, electronic
resources, and will include examples from English, American and
continental materials from 1500 to the present. The course runs from
20th May to the 26th May 2006.

Two fully-funded places are available to PGR students undertaking
research in this field in UK Universities. First preference will be
given to AHRC funded students in the earliest stages of their research.
If you would like to know more about the course or would like to apply
for a place, please contact the Research Institute for the Humanities at
Keele University:

http://www.keele.ac.uk/research/humanities/news/AHRCbookcourse/Index.htm

Enquiries can also be directed to Professor James Knowles
([log in to unmask]).