Call for papers
Princeton University, Program in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
Graduate Student Conference
May 1, 2015
Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Roger Chartier, Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania and directeur d’études at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris
The emergence of print culture in the early modern era altered the relationship between readers and texts. We are interested in exploring the history of the book and material culture, especially insofar as it interacts with concurrent developments in trade, commerce, geographical exploration, and imperialist expansion.
Possible topics can include, but are not limited to:
- print production: technical advances, print culture, materiality of texts
- reading practices: ways of reading, reading public, oral/manuscript/print transmission, book ownership
- circulation: borrowing/lending books, book trade, globalization of knowledge, development of ideas about the world
- books and memory: archives, libraries, authorship, permanence and ephemerality
- the market for books: translations, economic relations, censorship, production of genres, intended audiences (printing and publishing industry/trade).
Submissions from history, language and literature, art history, music, philosophy, history of science, religion and other relevant fields are welcome.
Please send an abstract of 250 to 300 words, academic affiliation, and contact information to premsgradconference@gmail.com by February 15, 2015.
2015 Conference organizers,
Sophia Núñez, PhD Student, Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures
Ireri Chávez-Bárcenas, PhD Candidate, Musicology
Princeton University
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