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Graduate Student Merit Award Winner for 2024

The Bibliographical Society of Canada (BSC) is pleased to announce that Martin Breul has been nominated for the BSC-SbC’s Congress Graduate Student Merit Award. Martin is a PhD student at McGill University in the Department of English. The Awards Committee was impressed with Martin’s research, which will explore the publication of Canadian short fiction in the German Democratic Republic.

Greta Golick Award Winner for 2024

The Bibliographical Society of Canada (BSC) is pleased to announce that Annika Fabbi has been awarded the Greta Golick award.

Musicologist, pianist, and harpsichordist Annika Fabbi is currently pursuing a Master of Arts in Music at the University of Ottawa. Her research explores the publication history of music, focusing on the evolution of editorial practices, and arguing the existence of a symbiotic relationship between music editors and performers.

Congratulating the BSC-SbC Emerging Scholar 2024

The Bibliographical Society of Canada (BSC) is pleased to announce that Kartik Maini has been awarded the Emerging Scholar Prize for 2024. Kartik is a fourth-year PhD student in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations at The University of Chicago. The Awards Committee was particularly impressed with their research project that focused on the oeuvre of Samarth Rāmdās (c. 1608-1681), a seventeenth-century saṃnyāsī from Maharashtra. This research is helping to open book history as an academic discipline dominated by West-centric discourses to more diverse voices. Kartik will be invited to publish a revised, article-length paper in the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada, subject to peer review. The prize also includes a grant of $500.

Call for Submissions to the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada

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.

Join the BSC Special Collections Interest Group for Biblio-Bière!

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.

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.

2024 BSC Conference – Preliminary program available

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 31^st.

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.