Call for Papers: Transnational Journalism History
Traditionally, journalism history has been studied from a national perspective. However, journalism has never truly been bounded by geography. Practices, technologies, and journalists have moved around the globe, bringing new ideas with them and taking more new ideas along when they move on. Practices have emerged in one place and spread around the globe since before Gutenberg invented movable type.
This inaugural conference on Transnational Journalism History is seeking papers that deal with any aspect of the subject; however, they are particularly interested in work that examines the flow of those journalistic developments, people, and phenomena between Ireland and the United States. The work from this conference, and a second one anticipated for 2017, will form the basis of at least two volumes, one of which will deal with the flow of news, news personnel, and news developments between Ireland and the United States. The second conference and volume will be more global in scope.
The conference will be held on February 25–27, 2016 at Georgia Regents University in Augusta, Ga.
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Symposium: Books and/as New Media
For the last 500 years, printed books have been the default means of circulating knowledge. In the last 15 years, this has ceased to be the case. This Symposium will address this issue, also by placing it in an historical perspective. The symposium will be held on 9-10 July in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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Symposium: Marginal Malone
The Oxford Bodleian Library & Radcliffe Camera are organizing a symposium on Edmond Malone's annotations in (and on) English literature. This symposium examines the lives and afterlives of Malone's readings of English literature. It takes as particular focus the long influence of Malone's critical perspective on those who agreed and disagreed with him, both in his lifetime and in later generations of students and scholars.
It will be held on the 26th of June 2015, at Lecture Theatre, Weston Library, Oxford. (Official website.)
Conference: Digital Humanities Benelux
The Digital Humanities Benelux, a platform for the collaboration between Digital Humanities projects in Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg, is organizing a conference in Antwerp on 8-9 June. Topics will include such subjects as Cyber Culture, Digital Scholarly Editing, Curation & Collection and Networks.
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Conference: St Andrews Book Conference on "Buying and Selling"
The Universal Short Title Catalogue project has now opened its registration for the St Andrews Book Conference on Buying and Selling.
This conference will offer contributions on the theme of buying and selling in the early modern book trade: failures and successes of print ventures; strategies and ideas to increase the sales; rebinding, reprinting, reediting; cooperation and competition amongst booksellers; the day-to-day life of printing firms and bookshops; fairs and permanent markets; catalogues advertising stock and individual libraries being auctioned; taste and trends in the purchase of books; influence of censorship and regulations.
Co-organised by Shanti Graheli and Jan Alessandrini, the conference will take place 18-20 June 2015 at the University of St Andrews.