[Dino] Panel on immigrant book culture at the SHARP conference

[Kirsti Salmi-Niklander]

Dear colleagues,

The CFP for the SHARP conference "Book culture from Below" (Helsinki,  
17-21 August 2010) will close 30 November. Proposals can be submitted  
at the website www.helsinki.fi/sharp2010.
   I am planning a joined paper on the Finnish-Canadian hand-written  
newspapers with Anna St. Onge from York University Libraries  
(Toronto). This would be an excellent opportunity to build up a panel  
on immigrant literary cultures and publishing history. If you are  
interested in this possibility, please contact me  
(salminik[at]mappi.helsinki.fi) and Anna St. Onge  
(anstonge[at]yourku.ca) as soon as possible.

Kirsti Salmi-Niklander
Dosentti, Tutkijatohtori (SA)
Adjunct professor, Post-doctoral fellow (Academy of Finland)
Folkloristiikka/Department of Folklore Studies
JP/P.O.Box 59, 00014 University of Helsinki, FINLAND
Tel. +358-9-191 22293 (office), +358-40-724 9760 (mobile)


CALL FOR PAPERS


Book Culture from Below – The Eighteenth Annual Conference of the
Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP).
The conference will take place in Helsinki, 17-21 August 2010.


The conference theme Book Culture from Below emphasizes the book
culture of peasants, the laboring classes and other under-represented
and oppressed groups, especially their independence and initiative in
creating, using and deciphering printed works and print culture. In
keeping with the SHARP spirit, we welcome proposals on all aspects of
book history, but especially those that address issues and questions
related to the conference theme, for example:

     * How can the ”from below” perspective be applied to book history?
       How does this perspective intersect with class, race, gender and
       ideology?
     * Who are the readers, writers, publishers and distributors ”from
       below”? Which forms of authorship and educational practices have
       been available to them?
     * How can differences and interactions among educated, autodidactic
       and uneducated readers, writers and publishers be conceptualized?
     * How can the various forms of literacy and illiteracy be recognized
       and analyzed?
     * Which kinds of writings and publications are relevant for studying
       book culture from below? Which bibliographical and book history
       methods and approaches can we use to study them?
     * How can the complex interaction between folklore and book culture,
       orality and literacy be re-evaluated? What are the functions of
       the manuscript medium in relation to the oral and the printed media?
     * What are the intersections of subaltern and post-colonial studies
       with book history?
     * In which ways does the ”from below”-perspective challenge
       hegemonic national histories? What are the possibilities of
       transnational studies in this field?

We invite not only researchers of print culture but also those
studying manuscripts (whether medieval or modern era) to the conference.


     Proposals

The conference is open to both individual presentations and complete
panel proposals (including three speakers and a chairperson). Each
speaker will be given 20 minutes for the presentation and 10 minutes
for discussion. All sessions will last 90 minutes. The proposals
should be sent in English, which is the main language of the conference.

Proposals can be sent only by using the proposal form
<https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/17197/lomake.html>. The
official on-line submission process has been opened on 15 September
2009. The deadline for submissions is 30 November 2009. No proposals
will be considered after the deadline.

Participants must be members of SHARP in order to present at the
conference. It is the responsibility of presenters to ensure that they
are members by the time of the registration. For information on
membership, please visit the SHARP website at www.sharpweb.org.


     Travel grants

SHARP is able to provide a limited number of travel grants to graduate
students and independent scholars. If you wish to be considered for
such a grant, please state this when submitting your proposal.


     Contact addresses

For more information, please visit the conference’s website at
www.helsinki.fi/sharp2010 <http://www.helsinki.fi/sharp2010>

The conference website and information can also be found via
www.sharpweb.org <http://www.sharpweb.org>

Inquiries concerning the conference should be sent to
sharp-2010 (at) helsinki.fi