Monthly Archives: June 2020

New publication: Kontext Buch. Festschrift für Stephan Füssel. Ed. Christoph Reske. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2020.

Edited by Christoph Reske. With contributions in English or German by (among many others) Robert Darnton, Falk Eisermann, Christine Haug, Michael Knoche, Alberto Manguel, Gabriele Müller-Oberhäuser, Paul Needham and Eric White, this new edited volume was just published with the Harrassowitz Verlag in Wiesbaden. More information and the table of contents can be found here. […]

CfP: Bookshelves in the Age of the COVID-19 Pandemic, November 3-4 2020 (online conference)

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted on all aspects of lives, but nowhere has this been more visible than in the conflation of public and private workspace. As we work from home and attend endless online meetings, our bookshelves are suddenly on public display. This conference will ask speakers to critically examine this particular cultural phenomenon, […]

SHARP DeLong Book Prize for Jeffrey T. Zalar, Reading and Rebellion in Catholic Germany, 1770-1914 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press and the German Historical Institute, 2019).

Congratulations to Jeffrey T. Zalar (University of Cincinnati), who was awarded this year’s George A. and Jean S. DeLong Book History Prize by the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP), at their Annual General Meeting on Thursday, June 18. Jeffrey Zalar’s monograph Reading and Rebellion in Catholic Germany, 1770–1914 was published […]