Book Cultures, Book Events Conference
University of Stirling, Scotland, 23-24 March 2012
Call for Papers
Conference Organisers: Professor Claire Squires, Stirling Centre for
International Publishing and Communication, University of Stirling and
Professor David Finkelstein, School of Humanities, University of Dundee
This is an extended call for papers for Book Cultures, Book Events, a
conference that will bring together academic and student researchers from
different disciplines with practitioners and stakeholders, to discuss
contemporary perspectives and historical precedents relating to book
festivals, literary events and book culture activity. Our featured plenary
speakers include Dr Danielle Fuller (University of Birmingham), Peggy Hughes
(Edinburgh City of Literature) Paula Morris (University of Stirling) and
Miha Kovac, University of Ljubljana, as well as participants from Australia,
Denmark, France, Japan, U.K. and the U.S.A. There are still slots available
to accommodate proposals related to these areas, joining already accepted
papers covering subjects as diverse as eighteenth-century book towns,
bookshops as social networks, literary pilgrimages and literary festivals,
bookselling and live literary events, and studies of book festivals and book
towns in Japan, India and Australia.
Proposals for papers of 20 minutes are invited. Please send email attachment
abstracts of 300-400 words, plus a biography of 100-150 words, by 3 February
2012, to: [log in to unmask] Further details of the conference can be
found at http://www.bookcultures.stir.ac.uk/conference/.
This conference is supported by the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and as such
registration costs for the conference will be minimal.
The conference is part of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Research Workshop
Book Events: The Transnational Culture, Commerce and Social Impact of
Literary Festivals, organised in association with the Stirling Centre for
International Publishing and Communication at the University of Stirling,
Queen Margaret University, the University of Dundee, and Bookfestival
Scotland. Further details about the general initiative can be accessed at
http://www.bookcultures.stir.ac.uk/.
For any enquiries, please contact: [log in to unmask]
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