Dear Colleagues:

Our conference, Forgotten Books and Cultural Memory, will be held May 27–28 (with companion cultural events on May 26) in Taipei. If you would be interested in traveling to Taipei for a conference on this theme, please download the abstract and presenter information form on our website and send it to [log in to unmask] by February 1.

Our Saturday keynote speaker is Dr. Rebecca Krug of the University of Minnesota, who is the author of Reading Families: Women’s Literate Practice in Late Medieval England (2002) and the forthcoming Margery Kempe and the Lonely Reader, both from Cornell UP. We have received several abstracts on medieval and religious texts and would love to have more.

Due to the specialties of our keynote speakers, the conference should be especially relevant for scholars interested in late-medieval British literature and religion, Margery Kempe, the history of the book (and media history), science and literature, Victorian literature, and digital humanities--though we have also received (and welcome) abstracts from classicists, Anglo-Saxonists, and scholars of other places and periods. As our conference is in Taipei, we also particularly hope to organize several panels that address the forgetting and remembering of texts in interactions between the East and the West.

The conference is hosted by Taipei Tech and is also a SHARP-afiliated event. We have already received abstracts from more than ten countries and five continents, and we are looking forward to fascinating discussions about our conference theme.

Feel free to contact me with any questions or take a look at our detailed website: https://forgottenbookstaipei.wordpress.com.

Very best,

Sharin Schroeder
Assistant Professor
Department of English
National Taipei University of Technology (Taipei Tech)

02-2771-2171 ext.3933
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