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SHARP 2022 in Amsterdam: DACH participants
SHARP’s annual meeting is taking place in Amsterdam next week under the theme “Power of the Written Word” (link to conference website) – in-person for the first time since it was held at the University of Massachusetts in July 2019. In 2020, SHARP ran an alternative week of online events in lieu of a conference […]
News: The “Netzwerk Historische Wissens- und Gebrauchliteratur” seeks new members
— seen on SHARP-L, reposting with more details here for our followers and network members — In 2020, the “Netzwerk Historische Wissens- und Gebrauchliteratur” was founded. It is dedicated to knowledge-mediating texts of all sorts, their research and cultural contexts. The temporal focus is on the middle ages and the early modern period. Currently, the […]
Reading Research Network position paper
Submitted by our network member Ute Schneider, Mainz Following the expert conference on the topic of “Dimensions of Reading” at Herrenhausen Castle near Hanover (2019), which was financed by the Volkswagen Foundation, the organizers Prof. Dr. Simone Ehmig (Stiftung Lesen, Mainz), Prof. Dr. Svenja Hagenhoff (Book Studies, FAU Erlangen), and Prof. Dr. Ute Schneider (Book […]
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 […]
Online exhibit: 5,000 Years of Media History
The Leipzig-based Deutsches Buch- und Schriftmuseum of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (German National Library) invites internet users to visit their first-ever online exhibit. The exhibit “Signs – Books – Networks” covers 5,000 years of media history, presenting over 1,800 different objects relating to the history of communication, and is available in German and English. The exhibit […]
#Reading: International Conference at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (29 Sep. – 1 Oct. 2016)
We’re very pleased to share with you the final program of the conference “#Reading: Transforming Traditional Forms of Reception in the Digital Age” (“#Lesen – Transformationen traditioneller Rezeptionskonzepte im digitalen Zeitalter”). The conference is organized by the DFG-funded Research Training Group 1787 “Literature and Dissemination of Literature in the Digital Age” and takes place from September 29 […]
News: Info-Events for MA courses of study in Münster with a Book Studies focus
Next week there are two evening events in Münster at the WWU for prospective MA students with an interest in Book History and Book Studies. Both the MA “Britsh, American and Postcolonial Studies” (BAPS) and the MA “National and Transnational Studies” (NATS) have modules focused on Book Studies/Book History. More information on the events and […]
News: Exhibit “Glanzlichter der Buchkunst” at JGU Mainz, April 21-May 12
The Mainz Institute for Book Studies with its Mainzer Verlagsarchiv (Mainz Publishing Archive) has received archival materials from the Bertelsmann imprint “wissenmedia”. During an official ceremony yesterday, Katja Meinecke-Meurer, managing director of “wissenmedia”, gave the archives of the important facsimile publisher “Faksimile Verlag” to the Institute for Book Studies. The specialized facsimile publisher (Lucerne/Munich) published […]
New book series: “Written Media – Perspectives in Communication and Book Studies” (de Gruyter)
Our associated scholar Ute Schneider has asked me to inform all of you about a new book series that may be of interest to you. “Written Media – Perspectives in Communication and Book Studies” is edited by Heinz Bonfadelli (Zurich/CH), Ursula Rautenberg (Erlangen/D) and Ute Schneider (Mainz/D) and published by de Gruyter (Berlin). In recent […]
News from the Blog Administrators
During these quiet summer weeks, we thought we’d draw your attention to two recent publications by Corinna Norrick-Rühl and Alexander Starre, two of the blog’s administrators. Alexander’s book Metamedia: American Book Fictions and Literary Print Culture after Digitization has just appeared with the University of Iowa Press. The book inaugurates the new series “Impressions: Studies […]
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