Several CMT bags and their owners will be journeying north of the border this week for the ‘Material Cultures 2010’ conference hosted by the Centre for the History of the Book at the University of Edinburgh. The three-day programme, viewable here, features keynote papers by Roger Chartier, Jerome McGann, and Peter Stallybrass. Delegates will be spoilt for choice during the panel sessions, which promise material and textual delights from nineteenth-century fashion magazines and Algonquin words to blogs and Scottish manuscript miscellanies. Expect reports here afterwards!