Further event: CFP - The Battle for Books

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The 20th annual SHARP conference

The Battle for Books

26-29 June 2012
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Submissions are invited for the twentieth annual conference of the
Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing (SHARP) to
be held in Dublin, Ireland between 26 and 29 June 2012
The Theme

In a city like Dublin, which has been home to Swift, Wilde and Joyce
one naturally thinks of ‘The Battle for Books’ in terms of censorship,
constraint and restraint. While the organisers of this conference
envisage that these offer significant topics for individual papers and
groups of papers within panels, we encourage participants to interpret
the theme as broadly as possible.

On the production side of the industry one might consider the
financial, emotional and organisational struggles of authors, printers
and publishers to bring books to market. Papers are also welcome from
scholars who wish to analyse the distribution, sale and reception of
books across a range of time periods and geographical locations.

There is plenty of scope to develop ‘The Battle for Books’ in a
historical context, but we also invite papers from scholars who wish
to examine the future for books, the book-trade and the printing
industry in the context of current and future technological
innovations.

As always, proposals dealing with any aspect of book history are
welcome. However, topics of particular importance to the themes of the
conference include (but are not limited to):

* Lost and endangered skills related to the printing industry and book-
trade
* Battles between/among authors, printers and publishers
* Censorship, constraint and restraint
* Contestation and cultural struggle
* Constructions and deconstructions of national and local identities
* The digital book and digital futures
* Library futures

You can find the full Call for Papers at:http://www.tcd.ie/longroomhub/
events/forthcoming/SHARP2012.php