CFP: New Word Order: Emerging Histories of the Book (India) (6/30/05; 1/30/06-2/1/06)

CALL FOR PAPERS:
SHARP Regional Conference IV

New Word Order: Emerging Histories of the Book
January 30, 31, February 1 2006
Jadavpur University, Kolkata

Organized by
Centre for Advanced Studies in English, Jadavpur University
School for Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University

This conference is the fourth in a series of regional conferences under the aegis of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP)

The conference welcomes proposals dealing broadly but not exclusively with the following themes:

• Colonial and postcolonial histories of the book
• North-South and South-South book trades
• Old and new reading habits
• Image and text
• Censorship, piracy and intellectual property in texts
• Globalization and the book
• Public and private libraries
• Politics, censorship and the book

Proposals are particularly welcome from young researchers and scholars working on any aspect of the colonial and the postcolonial book.

Abstracts due 30 June 2005. Please send one-page proposals with short vita to convenors:

Abhijit Gupta
Department of English
Jadavpur University
Kolkata 700 032
offog_at_vsnl.com

Rimi B. Chatterjee
Department of English
Jadavpur University
Kolkata 700 032
rimibchatterjee_at_yahoo.co.in

Tel. 91-33-24146681
Tel + fax. 91-33-24137903

Programme and registration details will be posted on http://www.jadavpur.edu/conference/conference.htm

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