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> Dear Colleagues
>
> This comes courtesy of Ann-Sophie Klemp from the University of
> Copenhagen.
>
> Best wishes,
>
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> DANISH BOOK HISTORY FORUM
> Ink on Paper, Light on Screen: Text Matters
>
> Organized by Charles Lock and Ann-Sophie Klemp
>
> Venue:
> The Graphic Arts Institute of Denmark
> Emdrupvej 72
> 2400 Copenhagen NV
> Room: Auditoriet, plan 1
>
> Date: April 20-21
>
> Registration: www.dgh.dk <www.dgh.dk>
>
> Please include
> * title of proposed paper
> * abstract (no more than 300 words)
> * brief description of research project/interests
> * contact information (email, telephone and postal address)
>
> For further information, please contact Charles Lock: [log in to unmask]
>
> Invited speakers:
> Randall McLeod, professor of English, University of Toronto:
> "Reading the
> Text _en miroir"
> Robin Kinross, typographer and publisher, London: "The Modern
> History of the
> Printed Page"
>
> D.F. Mackenzie's Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts (1986)
> introduced
> into the field of book history a new concern with reading and
> meaning. A
> text's physical characteristics have usually been treated
> independently of
> its signifying strategies. Books as objects, books as texts: these
> were
> distinct entities, each subject to its appropriate mode of
> investigation.
> Mackenzie's work questions the distinction between the physical and
> semantic
> properties of that object that is now to be conceived neither as the
> book-as-object nor as the text, but as both. In the past twenty
> years the
> attention of book historians has been directed towards the
> physical, visual
> and tactile means through which meanings are circulated. No longer
> can book
> history be left to bibliographers or even book historians, for what
> is now
> being studied involves the text itself, the preserve of literary
> scholars.
> No longer can the printed page be treated as a neutral mediator of
> author's
> intentions to reader's understanding. The ink on the paper or the
> light on
> the screen - the material surface - is what readers must now
> discipline
> themselves to notice. This development has exposed the unity of
> instantiation and signification: no two instances of one text can be
> identical, for there are always differences in material conditions;
> and
> where there are material differences one cannot depend on semantic
> stability.
>
> The Danish Book History Forum has met twice this year, bringing
> together
> scholars working within the disciplines of book history, textual
> criticism,
> literary criticism and theory, hermeneutics and aesthetics, as well as
> practitioners of the graphic and typographic arts. This conference
> is an
> extension of the activities in the Forum.
>
> This disciplinary fusion suggests that a new distinction between
> meaning and
> its substantiations is called for. In which ways does matter
> matter? How do
> we determine the relationship between bibliographical questions of
> format,
> binding, margins, typeface, layout, paper quality, printing or
> publishing
> technique, whether on paper or in computer coding, and literary
> questions of
> genre, theme, voice, tone and narration? What matters in an age of
> digitization? What is the matter with (or of) a text displayed on the
> screen?
>
> The conference organizers invite scholars within these fields to
> submit
> proposals of papers (though electronic, paper-less proposals would be
> preferred) concerned with the matter of meaning, and the semantics of
> materiality. It is hoped that the conference will include papers
> that range
> historically from scribal and early printing practices to the
> paperback
> revolution and the development of e-books. Reflections on prehistoric
> sign-making would also be welcome.
>
> A detailed conference programme will be sent out before the conference
> start.
>
> A conference fee of DKK 200 will be payable at arrival for all
> participants,
> Ph.D. students excepted.
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