CALL FOR PAPERS
‘EVIDENCE OF
A major international conference
to be held at the 21-23 July
2008 Organised by the Open University
and the Keynote speakers: Kate Flint,
Jonathan Rose, David Vincent Studies
centred on the history of reading have proliferated in the last twenty years.
They have sprung from several different disciplines, encompassed different
periods and geographical locations and chosen divergent methodologies, but their
common quest has been to recover and understand the traces of a practice which
is central to our understanding of human history, yet notoriously elusive.
One such
approach is ‘The Reading Experience Database 1450-1945’ (RED), a project run by
the Open University and the This
major 3-day conference, the first of its type, seeks to provide such a forum. We
invite 20-minute papers from international students and scholars of any
discipline - both within and outside the Humanities – who are interested in the
history and practice of reading in any period or geographical location. Topics
may include, but are by no means limited to: ● Theories of
reading
● Issues of
literacy ● National and transnational
histories ● Reading and readers
in fiction ● ● Quantitative versus
qualitative methodologies ● Genre
reading
● Digital resources
and their development ● Visual representations of
reading
●
● Using historical data in
contemporary research fields
● The sociology, psychology and
neurology of reading experiences ● Evidence of reading from private
audio recordings and blogs ● Finding, compiling, interpreting
and preserving the evidence of reading Paper
titles, abstracts of no more than 300 words and short biographies should be sent
electronically by 31 January 2008 to all three organisers: Dr Shaf
Towheed (S.S.Towheed@ Dr
Rosalind Crone ([log in to unmask] Dr Katie
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