Yes, I too am very interested in this topic and would love to hear more about it.
best wishes,
Martha W. Driver
Pace University, New York 

> Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 11:29:31 -0500
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> Subject: Re: REMINDER: IES Symposium: Teaching the history of the book to undergraduates (UK)
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>
> I wonder if anyone who attended the one-day symposium on teaching
> book history to undergraduates might report to the list (or, if I
> alone am interested in it, just to me) about it? I very much wish I
> had been able to attend, but the timing and the cost of flying to the
> UK prevented me.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Erick Kelemen
>
> On Tuesday, 27 November, 2007, at 3:45 PM , Wim Van Mierlo wrote:
>
> > A friendly reminder to SHARP-ists about this forthcoming event (and
> > the
> > related survey) - details below.
> >
> > There are a few free spaces available for undergraduate (or recently
> > graduated) students who would be willing to participate in the student
> > roundtable; if you have a student who has encountered book history
> > in their
> > studies and who might be interested in attending, please let me
> > know as soon
> > as possible.
> >
> > Many thanks,
> >
> > Ian Gadd
> > ------------------------
> >
> > [Please cross-post]
> >
> > ONE-DAY SYMPOSIUM:
> > Teaching the history of the book to undergraduates
> >
> > Saturday 8 December 2007
> > Institute of English Studies, London
> >
> > Organisers: Dr Ian Gadd, Dr Aileen Fyfe, Dr John Hinks, Dr Cathy
> > Shrank and
> > Professor Simon Eliot
> >
> > History of the book, long the preserve of the graduate seminar, is
> > beginning
> > to find its way into the undergraduate curriculum, as tutors find
> > that the
> > questions history of the book raises, the methodologies it uses,
> > and the
> > perspectives it provides are increasingly useful to their students.
> > Yet, how
> > can something so interdisciplinary < that is taught in departments of
> > history, English, media studies, publishing and elsewhere < and so
> > material
> > < that needs access to books and archives < make its way
> > successfully into
> > the undergraduate classroom? What disciplinary, institutional,
> > pedagogical,
> > and intellectual problems does it encounter? And what are the possible
> > implications for history of the book as a field or mode of enquiry?
> >
> > This one-day symposium, the first of its kind in the UK, brings
> > together
> > scholars from a variety of disciplines and universities, research
> > librarians, and undergraduate students to debate these questions
> > and to
> > share experiences and good practice. We hope that it will be of
> > interest to
> > anyone involved in, or thinking about becoming involved in,
> > teaching the
> > history of the book.
> >
> > The conference programme and registration form is available at
> > http://ies.sas.ac.uk/events/conferences/2007/BookHist/index.htm
> >
> > Registration is £30 (£20 concessions) and covers refreshments, but not
> > lunch.
> >
> > On the website, there is also information about a survey of Book
> > History
> > teaching in the UK and Ireland. We've already received a good
> > number of
> > responses, but we would welcome more!