Tag Archives: IBG Young Scholars

Conference report: Crossing Borders – Books as Bridges, IBG Young Scholars Meeting, Göttingen, April 2017

Guest post by Lena Hinrichsen and Mareike-Beatrice Stanke The fifth annual meeting of the IBG Young Scholars Network was hosted by the DFG Research Training Group “Literature and Dissemination of Literature in the Digital Age” in Göttingen (Germany) under the direction of Dr. Anke Vogel (Mainz) and Elisabeth Böker (Göttingen). The 1.5-day conference dealt with […]

Call for Posters: Junior Forum of the IBG Conference: The Future of Reading, 20-22 September 2017

How will we go about reading in another twenty, thirty or even fifty years? Will autonomously operating reading devices link up with one another and exchange information and stories tailored to the needs and reading habits of the user? Will readers vote via App on alternative endings of a multi-sensory novel? Will publishing houses become […]

CfP: Crossing Boundaries – Books as Bridges, Göttingen, 6-7 April 2017

The fifth annual meeting of the IBG young scholars will take place in Göttingen. The conference theme is “Crossing Boundaries – Books as Bridges”. The conference will lead to a better understanding of the content- and media-related, conceptual, geographic, political and legal dimensions of crossing boundaries in books and the book indsutry. Thematic streams include, […]

Conf: IBG annual conference, Stuttgart, 7-8 July 2016

The 17th annual conference of the Internationale Buchwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft (IBG), organized by Ulrich Huse, will deal with censorship in democratic societies (“‘Eine Zensur findet [nicht] statt’ – Zensur und Medienkontrolle in demokratisch verfassten Gesellschaften”) and will take place from 7-8 July 2016 in Stuttgart at the Hochschule der Medien. The complete program can be downloaded […]

Conference Report: Between Text and Readers. IBG Young Scholars Network Meeting, 13-14 November 2015

Guest post by Julia Dickob, Mona Klinkhardt and Darya Mohammad-Hadi, JGU Mainz From Friday November 13 to Saturday November 14 2015 the annual meeting of the IBG Young Scholars Network took place for the first time at the Johannes Gutenberg-University in Mainz, Germany. The theme of the conference was “Between Texts and Readers – Book […]