MBC Event for 10 December 2009
The last BSANZ/CftB Melbourne Bibliographical Circle Event was in late May, when Dr. Felicity Henderson presented a paper on the Royal Society Library. Since that time—as some of you are aware—considerable changes have occurred at the Centre for the Book at Monash University, changes that necessarily interrupted our schedule for events. We are now back on track and we expect that—in future—we will be able to continue our series public events at the SLV.
Today, I am pleased to announce that on Thursday 10 December 2009 at 5.45PM, off the Redmond Barry Reading Room at the State Library of Victoria, Paul McShane and Simone Murray will present a joint-seminar on Book Towns & Writers’ Festivals.
Paul McShane will speak on "The International Book Town Experience: An Australian Perspective"
The Welsh village Hay-on-Wye is usually credited with being the first book town and it has certainly directly inspired many imitators around the world over the past forty years. This presentation will review the growth of the book town movement both internationally and in Australia, discuss the factors that seem key to success or failure, and the prospects for the future of book towns in a digital age of e-books, print-on-demand and Google Book Search.
Simone Murray will speak on "The Book Beyond the Page: Book Fairs, Screen Festivals and Writers’ Weeks"
Books have a rich public life beyond the printed page. This paper will consider three key fora through which book content circulates: international book fairs; screen festivals; and writers’ weeks. In particular it will investigate how these phenomena incubate the adaptation of book content into other media, and how such adaptations are then marketed back to book-centric audiences.
Paul McShane was awarded a Churchill Fellowship in 2002 to visit and study fifteen book towns around the world. He is the Convenor of BookTown Australia and was a founder of Australia's first formal Book Town project in the NSW Southern Highlands in 1999. Paul created the BOOKtrail concept in the Southern Highlands and is assisting others in Australia and worldwide to develop similar projects to promote their bookshops and the literary heritage of their regions.
Simone Murray is Senior Lecturer in Communications and Media Studies and Director of the Centre for the Book at Monash University. Her research focuses on the interface of the book with other communications media, particularly via digital multiformatting of content. Her book Mixed Media: Feminist Presses and Publishing Politics (Pluto Press UK) was awarded the 2005 SHARP DeLong Book Prize for the best book on print culture published during 2004. Her current research focuses on the industrial substructures of book-to-screen adaptations of literary prize-winners, and how such research can combine book history, print culture and media studies perspectives.
Today, I am pleased to announce that on Thursday 10 December 2009 at 5.45PM, off the Redmond Barry Reading Room at the State Library of Victoria, Paul McShane and Simone Murray will present a joint-seminar on Book Towns & Writers’ Festivals.
Paul McShane will speak on "The International Book Town Experience: An Australian Perspective"
The Welsh village Hay-on-Wye is usually credited with being the first book town and it has certainly directly inspired many imitators around the world over the past forty years. This presentation will review the growth of the book town movement both internationally and in Australia, discuss the factors that seem key to success or failure, and the prospects for the future of book towns in a digital age of e-books, print-on-demand and Google Book Search.
Simone Murray will speak on "The Book Beyond the Page: Book Fairs, Screen Festivals and Writers’ Weeks"
Books have a rich public life beyond the printed page. This paper will consider three key fora through which book content circulates: international book fairs; screen festivals; and writers’ weeks. In particular it will investigate how these phenomena incubate the adaptation of book content into other media, and how such adaptations are then marketed back to book-centric audiences.
Paul McShane was awarded a Churchill Fellowship in 2002 to visit and study fifteen book towns around the world. He is the Convenor of BookTown Australia and was a founder of Australia's first formal Book Town project in the NSW Southern Highlands in 1999. Paul created the BOOKtrail concept in the Southern Highlands and is assisting others in Australia and worldwide to develop similar projects to promote their bookshops and the literary heritage of their regions.
Simone Murray is Senior Lecturer in Communications and Media Studies and Director of the Centre for the Book at Monash University. Her research focuses on the interface of the book with other communications media, particularly via digital multiformatting of content. Her book Mixed Media: Feminist Presses and Publishing Politics (Pluto Press UK) was awarded the 2005 SHARP DeLong Book Prize for the best book on print culture published during 2004. Her current research focuses on the industrial substructures of book-to-screen adaptations of literary prize-winners, and how such research can combine book history, print culture and media studies perspectives.
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