Conferences and Symposia

Sa, 20.06.09 | 9.30-18.30 Uhr | Uni-Club, Konviktstraße 9

Internationales Symposium "Organic Material: the Many Threads of Canadian Book History"
mit u.a. George Elliott Clarke (Department of English, University of Toronto, Kanada), Danielle Fuller (Director, Regional Centre for Canadian Studies, University of Birmingham) und David Staines (Department of English, University of Ottawa, Kanada)

To book historians, the book is not a mere object but organic material, germinating reciprocal relationships between authors and readers, editors and publishers, marketers and critics. The international symposium facilitates debate and discussion about the nature of book history, a discipline that weaves together social history, cultural studies, descriptive bibliography, and literary analysis. Our debates address Canadian publishing practices of large nationalist to small regional presses, international readership communities, and the manipulation of textual graphics. The presenters’ expertise stems from their diverse roles in the collaborative process of book production and reception, as authors, editors, reviewers, and critics.

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13.06.2008

Symposium “Attention: Provocations on the Culture of Canadian Visual Forms”
Mit ‘Provokationen’ von Dr. Timothy Kaposy (Universität Bonn), Dr. des Michael Butter (Universität Freiburg) Prof. Kass Banning (University of Toronto), Prof. Mary O’Connor (McMaster University), Prof. Maria Whiteman (McMaster University) und Prof. Dr. Sabine Sielke (Universität Bonn)