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October 6th, 2015Final Call for Papers:
Histories, Theories, and Uses of Waste Paper in Early Modern England
Balliol College, University of Oxford
Saturday 15 June 2019
This one-day multidisciplinary conference will explore the manifold afterlives of waste paper in early modern England. Manuscript and printed sheets were frequently reused to wrap later volumes, to stiffen spines and cover the inside of bindings, to line boxes, to serve as notepaper, or (in the words of the poet Henry Fitzgeffrey) ‘to wrap Drugg's’, ‘dry Tobacco in’, and package ‘Pippin-pyes.’ While this cycle of use has long been understood as destructive, it also speaks to a distinctly pre-modern sense of how texts might endure beyond their initial form and function. The archive of waste can help us think about the shifting fate of books across time and within distinct institutional settings, exposing a partially hidden record of the past. How should literary and textual histories incorporate these materials that were cast aside in their own moment?
We seek 15-minute papers that consider the origins, functions, and legacies of waste paper, as well as related practices of textual use, destruction, and care. Multidisciplinary approaches are particularly welcome, as are both archival and theoretical presentations.
Possible topics might include:
· the archival discovery of waste paper;
· the thick and multitemporal histories of waste objects;
· the juxtaposition of waste and host texts;
· ways in which waste unsettles linear narratives of periodization and national boundaries;
· best practices for cataloguing and conserving fragmentary texts;
· waste paper and the literary imagination.
With plenary papers from Kate Bennett (University of Oxford) and Whitney Trettien (University of Pennsylvania).
This conference is being organized by Megan Heffernan (DePaul University), Anna Reynolds (University of York), and Adam Smyth (University of Oxford).
Please send an abstract (with title) of approximately 200 words and a brief CV to megan.heffernan@depaul.edu, by 1 October 2018. Papers will be 15 minutes.
We welcome proposals from scholars at all stages of their careers. We hope to be in a position to provide some financial support to early career scholars and graduate students.
Rare Book School’s Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography invites applications for its (2019-2020) cohort of junior fellows. The deadline is November 1, 2018.
Continuing the work of the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Critical Bibliography (2012–17), this scholarly society works to advance the study of texts, images, and artifacts as material objects through capacious, interdisciplinary scholarship--and to enrich humanistic inquiry and education by identifying, mentoring, and training promising early-career scholars. Fellows will be encouraged and supported in integrating the methods of critical bibliography into their teaching and research, fostering collegial conversations about historical and emerging media across disciplines and institutions, and sharing their knowledge with broader publics. The fellowship includes tuition waivers for two Rare Book School courses, as well as funding for scholars to participate in the Society's annual meeting and orientation. Additional funds are available for fellows to organize symposia at their home institutions, and fellows will have the option of attending a bibliographical field school to visit libraries, archives, and collections in New York City.
The Society is committed to supporting diversity and to advancing the scholarship of outstanding persons of every race, gender, sexual orientation, creed, and socio-economic background, and to enhancing the diversity of the professions and academic disciplines it represents, including the professoriate, museums, libraries, archives, public humanists, digital humanities, and the humanist academic disciplines. We warmly encourage prospective applicants from a wide range of disciplines, institutions, expertise, and interest.
For more information and to apply, please visit: rarebookschool.org/admissions-awards/fellowships/sofcb/
For more information about diversity and the society, please visit the Diversity & Outreach Committee's Welcome Letter: rarebookschool.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/SoFCB_Applicant_Welcome_Letter_2018.pdf
Informational inquiries can be directed to Prof. Elizabeth Yale, Chair, Selection Committee, at elizabeth-yale@uiowa.edu.
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In July 2017, Rare Book School received a $1 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography. Building on the success of the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in Critical Bibliography, this scholarly organization id..."We’re talking about $12m in rare books, and one old lady guarding it!”
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