For lis-libhistorians:
Colonial and Post-Colonial Cultures of the Book
August 2001
An international conference to be held at Rhodes University,
Grahamstown, South Africa.
The conference will address a wide range of questions relating to ‘the
history of the book’ in colonial and post-colonial contexts, with a
special emphasis on Southern Africa. Relevant topics include: national
and international communities of letters; censorship; the history of
reading and reading theories; reviewing and criticism; authorship;
sociologies of the text; text and image; media history; the cultures of
collecting; library history; literacy; oral cultures; orality and
print; printing and publishing history; the marketing and distribution
of books; the electronic text; and the future of the book.
Conference invitations will be sent to representatives from various
presses, including Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press,
Longman, and Blackwells. The organisers plan to publish papers in a
volume intended to promote the study of book history in Southern Africa.
A call for papers will be announced in January 2000.
Peter McDonald
St Hugh's College
Oxford, OX2 6LE
United Kingdom
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Peter Hoare, 21 Oundle Drive, Wollaton Park, Nottingham NG8 1BN
Tel/fax 0115 978 5297 E-mail [log in to unmask]
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