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                ’From Text(s) to Book(s)’

A SHARP-affiliated Conference

at Université de Lorraine,

Nancy, France

 21-23 June 2012

I.D.E.A. (‘Théories et pratiques de l’Interdisciplinarité Dans les Etudes Anglophones’), the research group of the Université de Lorraine English Department in Nancy, in association with SHARP (The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing), will be hosting an international conference on the subject ‘From Text(s) to Book(s)’. This conference, which will be held on the Campus Lettres et Sciences Humaines of Université de Lorraine in Nancy from 21-23 June 2012, is part of a continuing reflection on questions relating to book history and textual scholarship by IDEA’s literature and textual studies research axis. It follows in the line of previous conferences organised by IDEA on the subject: The Lives of the Book (2008) and Left Out: Texts and Ur-Texts (2007).

‘From Text(s) to Book(s)’ will provide a forum to discuss the ways in which texts are materialised for consumption by the reading public, both historically and in the contemporary context. Papers that adopt a historical approach to this question might discuss book production practices at specific periods or their evolution over time. Papers with a contemporary focus might deal with cases where the materialisation of texts does not necessarily involve production in the codex form, or discuss the impact that technological developments, like advances in digital printing and the emergence of devices such as Amazon’s Kindle Reader or Apple’s iPad, have had on the passage from text to ‘book’. Case studies of  individual works and reflections upon fundamental theoretical questions relating to the making and materialisation of texts are equally welcome. (Click on the link above for the complete call for papers.)

Confirmed keynote speakers for the conference are Espen Aarseth (Center for Computer Games Research, IT University of Copenhagen), Pascal Durand (Université de Liège, Belgium), Daniel Ferrer (CNRS, ITEM, France), David Finkelstein (University of Dundee, UK) and Claire Parfait (Université Paris 13, France).

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