2nd CBCP Postgraduate Symposium – call for papers

The 2nd CBCP Postgraduate Symposium will be held at the University of Reading. It will mainly be an in-person event with an option for remote presentation and attendance.

PhD students and Postdoctoral researchers are invited to submit abstracts for 15-minute talks on relevant topics, such as:

• book production, distribution, and readership in global contexts.
• printing and publishing trade.
• book history, typography, and book design.
• materiality of text and image (both analogue and digital).
• environmental histories of print cultures and book printing and sustainability.
• wider book cultures and publishing with a distinctive global, multilingual, and
  multidisciplinary focus.
• protagonists and professionals of the book market (such as publishers, editors,
  designers, illustrators, translators, cultural mediators, literary agents, readers).

The deadline for the submission of the abstracts is Monday 5th May 2023. Abstracts should also include single-line bio or affiliation descriptions and should not exceed 350 words in length (references and bio excluded).

The symposium will be an occasion for PhD students and Postdoctoral researchers to showcase their research while engaging with the wider community of researchers within the CBCP. No costs to attend: lunch and refreshments will be provided.

Abstracts and enquiries should be sent to: Andrea Romanzi and Pritha Mukherjee.

Delegates may also like to register to attend the Marina Warner talk on ‘Archives, history and memory in memoir writing’ which is taking place on the same evening, as an in person/hybrid event. For more information please click here.