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Upcoming Events: #gutenberg2018 in Mainz
2018 marks the 550th anniversary of Gutenberg’s death. To celebrate Gutenberg and his achievements, Mainz (and other cities and institutions) are organizing a number of events, conferences, etc. The kick-off will take place in two weeks’ time at JGU Mainz with this year’s Mainz Colloquium dedicated to Gutenberg (26 January ). Program A two-day conference […]
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 […]
First Mainz Graduate Conference in English Literature and Culture, 22-23 July 2016
The School of English Literature and Culture at Mainz University will be hosting its first graduate conference on 22 and 23 July 2016. We invite potential participants to submit proposals for 20-minute papers that fit into one of the following sections: 1. Text, Language, Reader 2. Text, History, Form 3. Text, Culture, Identity Please send […]
Conference report: lyrik.buch.markt, JGU Mainz, 29 January 2016
by Corinna Norrick-Rühl, Institute for Book Studies, JGU Mainz Is there a market for poetry? Poetry is generally considered an outsider in the book industry. But since Jan Wagner received the award of the Leipzig Book Fair in 2015, poetry has been “trending”. This one-day conference under the direction of Alexander Nebrig, visiting professor at […]
Conference: Between Texts and Readers, JGU Mainz, 13-14 November 2015
We are pleased to announce that the final program is now available for the 2015 annual meeting of the IBG Young Scholars. The meeting will be hosted by the Institute for Book Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg-University in Mainz, Germany. The conference will deal with book and literature promotion in the 20th and 21st centuries, […]
Conference: Between Texts and Readers. Annual Meeting of the IBG Young Scholars. November 13-14, Mainz
Save the date! This year, the annual meeting of the IBG Young Scholars will be hosted by the Institute for Book Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg-University in Mainz. The conference will deal with book and literature promotion in the 20th and 21st centuries, with several international contributions spanning a wide variety of topics, balancing historical […]
Blog project “Self publishing” at JGU Mainz
Self publishing is certainly one of the “hot topics” of today’s book industry. Graduate students of Book Studies at Johannes Gutenberg-University (JGU) have founded a blog titled Spubbles which deals with self publishing in all its facets. We invite our readers and followers to look at the website. The project is funded by the Gutenberg […]
Event: Digital Humanities Day 2014. Methods, Technologies, Horizons (30 June, JGU Mainz)
The university library of Johannes Gutenberg-University (JGU) Mainz is holding a “Digital Humanities Day” on June 30, 2014. The event consists of two workshops (workshop 1: Projects and Methods of Digital Humanities in Mainz; workshop 2: Support and Technologies for Digital Humanities) and an evening lecture and podium discussion. The evening lecture will be held […]
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