CALL FOR PAPERS
MATERIAL CULTURES:
THE BOOK, THE TEXT AND THE ARCHIVE
a two day conference at
THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
July 29-30, 2000
Speakers will include Roger Chartier and Stephen Greenblatt
sociologies of the text, the material renaissance, reading theories,
text and image, media history, romanticism in print, the culture
industry, (post)modern paratexts, new histories of the book, new
empiricisms, publishing the enlightenment, the cultures of collecting
Deadline for proposals: August 30,1999
Material Cultures
Centre for the History of the Book
University of Edinburgh
22A Buccleuch Place
Edinburgh, EH8 9LN, UK
or by e-mail to [log in to unmask]
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The CENTRE FOR THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK is an international and
interdisciplinary centre at the University of Edinburgh for research
into all aspects of the material culture of the text. For further
information on the activites of the CHB see
http://www.ed.ac.uk/englit/research/chb
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