More on the 2010 Conference in Melbourne

Online registration is now available for the BSANZ 2010 conference, "To Deprave and Corrupt: Forbidden, Hidden and Censored books". To resister, go to the conference website here.

We now have a final version of the conference poster (which, unfortunately, hides/censors the wonderful shoes of this particular French reader, which were visible in the first poster):

Please feel free to distribute this poster as widely as possible.

After weeks spent wrestling with the programme we managed to fit in twelve parallel sessions—almost all of which contain three papers each—an opening address, a closing roundtable, two keynotes, and two exhibitions! The number of papers we managed to schedule is large but, unfortunately, we still had to decline many excellent papers.

The draft titles of the twelve parallel sessions are:

• 1A Islam and Censorship
• 1B Censorship and the Long 18th Century
• 2A Touching Books in Medieval and Early Modern England: Demons, Sedition and Prohibition
• 2B Asian Print Cultures
• 3A Histories of Australian Literary Censorship
• 3B Grey Areas: ‘Political Correctness’, Heteronormativity and Plagiarism
• 4A Somebody Think of the Children: Censorship and Schools
• 4B Politics of Metadata: Indexes, Cataloguing and BookScan
• 5A Constructing the 19th-century Obscene
• 5B Open-access and New Publishing Cultures
• 6A Women, Expatriates and Famous Banned Books
• 6B Covert Means: Translation, Selection and Self-censorship

As you can see, there will be something for everyone. Full details of the papers and presenters will be posted on the conference website (here) as soon as all the papers have been confirmed.