various book history items
Rare Book School:
With one possible exception, the roster of courses offered by Rare Book School in 2005 on our Web site is now complete.
Regional SHARP in India:
SHARP Regional Conference IV : "New Word Order: Emerging Histories of the Book" January 30, 31, February 1 2006 at Jadavpur University, Kolkata Organized by Centre for Advanced Studies in English AND School for Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University . More details here.
2005 Book History at A&M Workshop:
The fourth annual Book History at A&M Workshop will take place May 22-27, 2005, in the Cushing Memorial Library and Archives at Texas A&M University. This five-day workshop provides an intensive, hands-on introduction to the history of books and printing with an emphasis on hand press era printing and its allied technologies--typecasting, papermaking, bookbinding, illustration, and ink-making. Students will have the opportunity to cast type in a hand mould, set lines of type, impose formes, make paper, produce relief and intaglio illustrations and print on a replica common press. The workshop is intended for librarians, archivists, students, teachers, book collectors and private individuals who work in areas related to or who have an interest in the subject. The workshop also includes a series of evening lectures by scholars active in the field of book history. To register, find out more, or see photographs from previous workshops, go to: http://library.tamu.edu/bookhistory
AAS Summer Seminar in the History of the Book:
The American Antiquarian Society is pleased to announce plans for the 2005 Summer Seminar in the History of the Book to be held in Worcester, Mass. June 12 to June 17, 2005.
Michael Warner, Board of Governors Professor of English at Rutgers University, and Peter Stallybrass, Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania will co-lead the seminar. James N. Green, Librarian at the Library Company of Philadelphia, will be guest faculty.
The seminar is entitled "Publishing God: Printing, Preaching, and Reading in Eighteenth-Century America." It will focus on the eighteenth-century colonies to track the interplay between religious cultures and the circulation of print.
Please consult our website for the description of the seminar, biographical information about the faculty, application instructions, the seminar fee, and other details: http://www.americanantiquarian.org/sumsem05.htm
The priority deadline for applications is Thursday, March 10, 2005.
The seminar will follow the first of a series of conferences sponsored by the Program in the History of the Book at the American Antiquarian Society. For more information about "Histories of Print, Manuscript, and Performance in America", to be held June 10 to June 12, 2005, go to http://www.americanantiquarian.org/phbac.htm
2005 Conference, American Printing History Association:
The American Printing History Association is pleased to announce that its 2005 annual conference, hosted by Mills College, will take place in the San Francisco Bay Area on September 22nd & 23rd, 2005. Save the date! The conference, titled [r]Evolution in Print: New Work in Printing History & Practice, will combine academic papers with hands-on workshops and demonstrations that focus on the history, current status, and future of print. Watch for the Call for Papers & Workshops in early January. Topics of interest include the current letterpress revival; the history of typography and graphic design; printing along the Pacific Rim; histories of comics, zines, graphic novels and street literature; contemporary commercial print technologies; the end of ink on paper; radical printing and the counterculture; and of course any new work in printing history. Workshop possibilities include alternative printing methods on the Vandercook, contemporary handpress use, techniques for photopolymer, digital applications for use with paper and cuts, traditional tooling for bookbinding, and other traditional and experimental studio techniques. The conference will include optional weekend activities, along with opportunities to connect with the unique constellation of places and people that constitute print culture in the Bay Area. September is an ideal time to take advantage of the glorious late summer weather and active cultural calendar of San Francisco and environs. Please plan to join us at this exciting event! If you have questions prior to the Call for Papers, please contact Janice Braun, Conference Chair, at jbraun@mills.edu or 510-430-2047.