Material Cultures

A three-day conference at the University of Edinburgh, 16-18 July 2010

With:
ROGER CHARTIER
JEROME McGANN
PETER STALLYBRASS

Following the Material Cultures conferences which took place at The University of Edinburgh in 2000 and 2005, the third in the series is scheduled to take place in July 2010. The key theme of the conference is ‘Technology, Textuality, and Transmission’, though proposals relating to all aspects of Bibliography and the History of the Book are welcome.

MATERIALITY AND TEXTUALITY
ELECTRONIC TEXT
THE CULTURES OF PRINT
CENSORSHIP AND REGULATION
COLLECTIONS AND THEIR PRESERVATION
READERS AND READING PRACTICES
TECHNOLOGY AND TRANSMISSION
THE INFORMATION REVOLUTION
GEOGRAPHIES OF THE BOOK

Proposals of 200-300 words are invited on these or any other topic related to the history of the book, to be sent no later than 30 November 2009, to Material Cultures, Centre for the History of the Book, University of Edinburgh, 22a Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9LW or by email to mailto:materialcultures@ed.ac.uk.