The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 20.0520 Tuesday, 20 October 2009
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Date: Saturday, 17 Oct 2009 14:22:14 -0400
Subject: Rethinking Early Modern Print Culture Conference (CFP)
CALL FOR PAPERS
Rethinking Early Modern Print Culture
An international and interdisciplinary conference at
The Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
Victoria University in the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
15-17 October 2010
The view that early modernity saw the transformation of European
societies into cultures of print has been widely influential in
literary, historical, philosophical, and bibliographical studies of the
period. The concept of print culture has provided scholars with a
powerful tool for analyzing and theorizing new (or seemingly new)
regimens of knowledge and networks of information transmission as well
as developments in the worlds of literature, theatre, music, and the
visual arts. However, more recently the concept has been reexamined and
destabilized, as critics have pointed out the continuing existence of
cultures of manuscript, queried the privileging of technological
advances over other cultural forces, and identified the presence of many
of the supposed innovations of print in pre-print societies.
This multi-disciplinary conference aims to refine and redefine our
understanding of early modern print cultures (from the fifteenth to the
end of the seventeenth century). We invite papers seeking to explore
questions of production and reception that have always been at the core
of the historiography of print, developing a more refined sense of the
complex roles played by various agents and institutions. But we
especially encourage submissions that probe the boundaries of our
subject, both chronologically and conceptually: did print culture have a
clear beginning? How is the idea of a culture of print complicated by
the continued importance of manuscript circulation (as a private and
commercial phenomenon)? How did print reshape or reconfigure audiences?
And what was the place of orality in a world supposedly dominated by
print textuality? What new forms of chirography and spoken, live
performances did print enable, if any?
Other possible topics might include:
* Ownership of texts and plagiarism; authorship; "piracy"
* Booksellers and printers, and their local, national, and
international networks
* Readers and their material and interpretative practices
* Libraries, both personal and institutional
* Beyond the book: ephemeral forms of print and manuscript
* Text and illustration, print and visuality
* Typography, mise en page, binding, and technological advances in
book-production
We invite proposals for conference papers of 20 minutes and encourage
group-proposals for panels of three papers. Alternative formats such as
workshops and roundtables will also be considered. Abstracts of 250
words can be submitted electronically on the conference website,
http://www.crrs.ca/events/conferences/print/
The deadline for submissions is 15 December 2009.
All questions ought to be addressed to the conference organizers,
Gregoire Holtz (French, University of Toronto) and Holger Schott Syme
(English, University of Toronto), at
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