The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada (PBSC) encourages submissions to its annual volume of original articles, notes, and book reviews. The PBSC is a diamond open-access, peer-reviewed journal that publishes original work on a rolling basis to afford timely dissemination of research. The PBSC publishes scholarship in the field of bibliography and the history of the book, broadly construed to include printing and publishing history, studies of authorship, print culture studies, digital humanities, copyright history, the history of reading, textual studies, scholarly editing, library history, historical bibliography, descriptive and analytic bibliography, communications studies, media history, and any literary or historical research that takes particular account of the material forms of texts.
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Wednesday, June 19th, 2024 (following the BSC annual conference)
The BSC Special Collections Interest Group presents Biblio-Bière, a celebration of great books, craft beer, and congenial company.
Continue reading “Join the BSC Special Collections Interest Group for Biblio-Bière!”Call for submissions: Spring Bulletin
For its upcoming Spring issue, the Bulletin of the Bibliographical Society of Canada (BSC) invites the submission of stories or news items about past or upcoming events, ongoing projects and upcoming publications. Submissions are welcome from both members and non-members of the BSC. Texts should range between 200 and 300 words in length and should be sent to bulletin@bsc-sbc.ca by April 30, 2024. We look forward to hearing from you!
2024 Tremaine Fellowship awarded
The members of the Fellowships Committee are very pleased to announce that Kristin Moriah has been awarded the Marie Tremaine Fellowship for 2024.
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The Bibliographical Society of Canada is pleased to present the preliminary program for its 2024 Annual Conference, Topographical: The Place of Books at McGill University, June 17-18, 2024.
Registration for the conference is now open! Please note that Congress’s early-bird registration deadline is March 31st.
Call for Applications: French Book Reviews Editor for Papers / Cahiers
The Bibliographical Society of Canada (BSC) is seeking applications for the position of French Book Reviews Editor for the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada / Cahiers de la Société bibliographique du Canada. See the full posting in French for more details.
Call for Applications: 2024 Emerging Scholar Prize
The Bibliographical Society of Canada (BSC) invites applications for the Emerging Scholar Prize. The Prize promotes the work of a researcher who is beginning a career in the fields of book history and bibliography, broadly defined — studies encompassing the creation, production, publication, distribution, transmission, history, and uses of printed books, manuscripts, or electronic texts. Preference will be given to topics with a Canadian dimension.
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2024 Conference of the Bibliographical Society of Canada
17–18 June, McGill University
Topographical: The Place of Books
Working with books is in many senses an effort to relate them to places. Writers in all genres describe journeys, encounters, visits, or homecomings in persistent patterns of excursion and return. Readers follow them, searching for the cultural, scientific, informational, or touristic meaning of places – while also trying to find the right place for books in their own lives and dwellings. In its creation and its criticism, literature is classified in geopolitical terms – nation, region, community, locale – and contested by further terms that cut across them spatially – indigeneity, empire, diaspora, fugitivity.
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The latest issue of the Bulletin is now available! Click here for news from the BSC Council and the Society’s members.
If you have news you would like to share with the BSC, do not hesitate
to email the Bulletin editor at: bulletin@bsc-sbc.ca.
Deadline extended: BSC Fellowships 2024 Call for applications
The Bibliographical Society of Canada (BSC) invites applications for the Marie Tremaine Fellowship.
Deadline for application: January 22, 2024.
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