History of the Book in Canada

[Kathy Chung]

Hi Cdn theatre people!

Wouldn't it be nice to get some Cdn theatre/drama into this???? . . .  It's
a CFP for a History of the Book in Canada conference.

cheers, --- Kathy.


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>History of the Book in Canada
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>Call for Papers
>Planning Conference for Volume I (beginnings to 1840)
>Toronto, 24 to 26 November 2000
>
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>The project for an interdisciplinary history of the book in Canada from the
>sixteenth century to the present, to be written and published in three
>volumes in English and three volumes in French, has been funded as a Major
>Collaborative Research Initiative by the Social Sciences and Humanities
>Research Council of Canada.
>
>The editors of Volume I, Patricia Fleming and Gilles Gallichan, are
>organizing a planning conference at Toronto for 24 to 26 November 2000.
>
>A history of the book in Canada is not a history of the Canadian book but
>rather a study of manuscript and print in the lives of Canadians. To open
>discussion about the structure and content of Volume I the editors invite
>proposals for papers dealing with any aspect of the authorship,
>reproduction, distribution, or reception of written works in Canada up to
>1840. Topics will include books about Canada; books sold, owned, or read in
>Canada; books written by Canadians; and books printed here. The editors
>encourage papers relating to manuscript circulation, printing for distinct
>reading communities, and genres of print such as magazines, newspapers,
>almanacs, school books, official publications, job printing, etc.
>
>Themes which cross geographical and chronological boundaries are of
>particular interest, as are papers addressing questions of methodology and
>primary sources.  The volume team is also seeking
>visual material for an iconography of the book in Canada.
>
>Papers will be individual twenty-minute presentations; proposals for panels
>are welcome. In order to establish a common ground for discussion and
>debate, background papers will be circulated in
>advance to registrants. These will follow the model established for the
>founding conference in 1997 when regional reviews of book history research
>were distributed and later mounted on the project
>website. The editors now invite suggestions about background papers for
>volume I and welcome offers of collaboration in their preparation.
>
>Authors will be free to publish their papers elsewhere after the conference
>but they will also be invited to make them accessible on the project's
>website.
>
>The editors invite inquiries and submissions from new scholars as well as
>established researchers. Proposals in English or French (one page maximum)
>are due by 5 May 2000. The selection committee will meet the following
>week. Please address proposals to
>
>Patricia Fleming
>Faculty of Information Studies
>University of Toronto
>140 St George Street
>Toronto M5S 3G6
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>phone: 416-978-2884
>fax: 416-941-1399
>email: fleming at fis.utoronto.ca
>
>For further information about the project, including a proposed outline for
>Volume I and the 1997 background papers, consult the project website at
>http://www.hbic.library.utoronto.ca
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