A BOOK HISTORY RESEARCH NETWORK Study Day on Print and Manuscript Culture in British and European Towns and Cities
CENTRE FOR URBAN HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER — FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2013
PDF version of CfP here:
http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/urbanhistory/news/Text%20and%20Image%20in%20the%20City%20CfP.pdf/view
PAPERS ARE INVITED for this interdisciplinary Study Day from postgraduates, independent researchers and established scholars working on medieval to modern Britain or Europe. Topics might include but are not limited to:
* Intersections between urban cultural history and the history of books/prints/manuscripts/images
* How the culture of text or image has contributed to – and/or been shaped by – its primarily urban setting
* Urban texts and images: their creation, production, distribution and consumption/reception
* Popular print culture and ‘street literature’ (ballads, chapbooks, broadsides etc.)
* How texts and images disseminated urban ideas and culture into rural hinterlands
* Reading the ‘word city’ through newspapers, maps, posters, timetables and ephemeral texts/images
* Representations of urban space or modernity in text or image; urban ‘renaissance(s)’
* Innovative, radical and subversive uses of urban texts and images
The day will include a talk and display of prints by Sarah Kirby, Artist in Residence, Centre for Urban History
Please email proposals (300 words max) plus a brief biographical statement (60 words max) to John Hinks: jh241@le.ac.uk by 8 April 2013.