Friday, 12 June 2009

2009 BSANZ Conference

The 2009 BSANZ Conference, "The Limits of the Book," is almost upon us.

In March I did a lengthy post on the conference call for papers (CFP).

The Call has been well-answered. The following roster of speakers is taken from the conference website.

John Arnold, “Expatriate Scholarly Publishing: Eric Partridge and the Scholartis Press”

Victoria Bladen, “Gardens at the Margins: the Limits and Porous Borders of Renaissance Texts”

John Bradley and Frances Devlin-Glass, “Reading, Listening and Watching Country: Text Plus Animation as Co-dependent Partners in Learning Law and Idenitity Construction”

Caroline Breashears, “The Borders of Defense: Paratextual Strategies in Con Phillip's Apology”

Kylie Cardell, “From Page to Screen and Back Again: The Diary in Cyberspace and Beyond”

Jim Cleary and Catriona Mills, “Ariel and Australian Nineteenth Century Serial Fiction: A Case of Mistaken Attribution”

Rebecca-Anne Do Rozario, “Lost in Paratext: Jasper Fforde's Online Paratexts, Ugrades and Bibliographies”

Kate Eltham, “The Book As … : Searching for a New Metaphor for the Book in the Digital Age”

Mark Fraser, “Corrupting Reality: the Histories of the Necronomicon”

Stephanie Green, “Relentless Spaces : Book Festivals in Australia”

Alan Loney, “The Limits of the Book as Object”

Brian McMullin, “Forty Years On: The Society, 1969-2009”

Simone Murray, “Cultivating the Reader: Transmuting Loyal Readerships into Screen Adaptation Audiences”

Roger Osborne, “Reading on Page and Screen: Encounters with Books in a Digital Age”

Richard Overell, After-dinner Speaker.

Jeffrey Poacher, “The Limits of the Book Trade: Frank Johnson, Forgotten Middleman of Australian Publishing”

Shef Rogers, “What's at Issue: The Role of Intention in Bibliographical Classifications”

Andrew Schuller, “Digitization and the Scholarly Book”

Patrick Spedding, “The Lost Erotica of James West”

Doug Spowart, “Every Photo Deserves a Book”

Anthea Taylor, “Delimiting Popular Feminism: The Case of Blurbs and Book Covers”

Lawrence Warner, “The Counter-History of Piers Plowman Textual Scholarship, c. 1750-1850: Bodleian Rawl. 272/273 and State Library of Victoria *S 821.15 V”

Jessica Wilkinson, “Out of Bounds of the Bound Margin: Susan Howe's Challenge to the Printed Page”

Richard Yeo, “The Enlightenment Encyclopaedia”

Short bio's and photos will be found here.

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