The Bibliographical Society of Canada (BSC) invites applications for the Marie Tremaine Fellowship.
Deadline for application: December 22, 2023.
Continue reading “BSC Fellowships 2024 Call for applications”The Bibliographical Society of Canada (BSC) invites applications for the Marie Tremaine Fellowship.
Deadline for application: December 22, 2023.
Continue reading “BSC Fellowships 2024 Call for applications”Theme: “Disrupting Whiteness Within Special Collections, Bibliography, and Book History”
This special issue is an extension of the keynote panel “Finding Another Country in the Stacks: Decentering Whiteness Within Special Collections, Bibliography, and Book History” for the Bibliographical and Book Studies Canada’s 2022 Conference. This keynote session examined approaches to remediating the lingering effects of systemic racism all while shedding light on the radical inclusivity work occurring across Canada in book history and special collections work. This special issue will deepen the panel’s initial reflections on race, alongside systemic hierarchies associated with educational, professional, and citizenship status.
Continue reading “Deadline Extended – Call for Submissions: A Special Issue of Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada”The Bibliographical Society of Canada (BSC) is pleased to announce that Dr. Chris J. Young has been appointed Editor of the Society’s peer-reviewed journal, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada.
Continue reading “Appointment of New Editor of the Papers/Cahiers”The Bibliographical Society of Canada (BSC) is pleased to announce that Stephen Webb has been awarded the Greta Golick award.
Continue reading “Greta Golick Award Winner for 2023”The Bibliographical Society of Canada (BSC) is pleased to announce that Ayla Morland has been nominated for the BSC-SbC’s Congress Graduate Student Merit Award, which includes a grant of $500.
Continue reading “Graduate Student Merit Award Winner for 2023”The members of the Fellowships Committee are very pleased to announce that Manuel Medrano has been awarded the Bernard Amtmann Fellowship for 2023 for his project, “Book History beyond the Page: An Andean Khipu in the McGill University Library.”
Continue reading “2023 Bernard Amtmann Fellowship Awarded”The members of the Fellowships Committee are very pleased to announce that Sarah Pelletier has been awarded the Marie Tremaine Fellowship for 2023 for her project, “’Neither boy nor man’: Transnational Dimensions of Gender(ing), Race, and Labour in the Nineteenth-Century North American Typographical Trade and Press, 1850-1914.”
Continue reading “2023 Marie Tremaine Fellowship Awarded”The Bibliographic Society of Canada (BSC) is pleased to announce that Rachel Burlock has been nominated for the BSC-SbC’s Congress Graduate Student Merit Award. Rachel is a doctoral student at the University of Alberta in the department of English and Film Studies. The awards Committee was impressed with Rachel’s research, which was foregrounded in community history book from a rural settlement in Manitoba.
Continue reading “Graduate Student Merit Award Winner for 2023”The Bibliographic Society of Canada (BSC) is pleased to announce that Megan Butchart has been awarded the Emerging Scholar Prize for 2023. Megan is a recent Master of Arts graduate in English from the University of Alberta. The Awards Committee was particularly impressed with her multi-layered research project that focused on the southern literary magazine South Today (1936-1945), which paid particular attention to readership. The committee felt this approach brought an important and dynamic dimension to their analysis of the anti-racism activism undertaken by the magazine’s editors within and beyond its pages.
Continue reading “Congratulating the BSC-SbC Emerging Scholar 2023”The Conference Committee is pleased to present the preliminary program for the 2023 BSC Conference “Book: Re-imagined and Re-born.”
The registration for the conference is now open. Please note that Congress’s early-bird registration deadline is March 31st.