“Turning Points and Defining Moments in Book History and Print Culture”
2012 Annual Meeting of the Bibliographical Society of Canada
Dates: May 28-29, 2012
Location: Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences
Wilfrid Laurier University and University of Waterloo
May 28, 2012
9:00 – Welcome from BSC President Janet Friskney
9:15 –10:15 Canadian Literary Projects Room: JR Coutts Engineering Lecture Hall 307
Chair: Nancy Earle (Memorial University) John Lennox (York University): “The Writing of the Literary History of Canada” Heather Murray (University of Toronto): “Reading Canadian in the 1970s: The CANLIT Project and the National(ist) Reader”
10:15–10:45 Break
10:45-12:15 Publishing Histories (sponsored jointly by ACCUTE and the Bibliographical Society of Canada)
Room: JR Coutts Engineering Lecture Hall 307
Chair: Eli MacLaren (McGill University) Michael O’Driscoll (University of Alberta): “ „Deceptive simplicity and candor‟: Black Sparrow Press and Publishers‟ Archives” Ruth Panofsky (Ryerson University): “ „I am being taught by my own work‟: Editor Mildred Claire Pratt” Jennifer Scott (Simon Fraser University): “Prison Writing: Debt, the Novel, and the Role of the Publisher in Transatlantic Emigration”
12:15 –1:45 BSC Lunch and Annual General Meeting
Room: JR Coutts Engineering Lecture Hall 307
1:45-2:45 The Printing Press in History and Scholarship Room: JR Coutts Engineering Lecture Hall 307 Chair: Alison Rukavina (University of Alberta) Sean Swanick (McGill University): “in the Islamic World” Sabrina Alcorn Baron (University of Maryland): “The Publication and Reception of Elizabeth L. Eisenstein‟s The Printing Press as an Agent of Change”
2:45-3:00 Break
3:00–5:00 Authors, Editors, and Publishers
Room: JR Coutts Engineering Lecture Hall 307
Chair: Sandra Alston (University of Toronto) Frederick David King (University of Western Ontario): “Inverting the Ideal Book: Charles Ricketts, Aubrey Beardsley, and Queer Textuality” Elizabeth Willson Gordon (Simon Fraser University): “The Unknown History of the Hogarth Press: 1941 to the Present” Lise Jaillant (University of British Columbia): “ „I‟m Afraid I‟ve Got Involved with a Nut‟: William Faulkner, James Culpepper and Random House” Chris Fox (University of Victoria): “Editing in Literary Diversity: Barbara Kuhne Re-visions Press Gang‟s Publishing”
5:00-7:00: Congress President‟s Reception: UW Physical Activities Complex.
May 29, 2012
9:00–10:00 Prominent Canadian Authors
Room: JR Coutts Engineering Lecture Hall 307
Chair: Tom Vincent (Royal Military College) Gwen Davies (University of New Brunswick): “Bookstore and Baptist Blues: Watershed Moments in James De Mille‟s Authorship and Writing” Alison Rukavina (University of Alberta): “Disentangling Truth from Myths: A Publishing History of Sir Sam Steele‟s Forty Years in Canada”
10:00–10:30 Break (Coffee to be served at Math & Computer Science Room 4059)
10:30–12:00 The Intersection of Journalism and Books (sponsored jointly by the Bibliographical Society of Canada, The Canadian Association for the Study of Book Culture, and the Media and Communications History Committee of the Canadian Historical Association)
Room: Mathematics & Computer Science Building, Room 4059
Chair: Isabelle Robitaille (Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec) Elizabeth Dickens (Briercrest College): “ „Journalism Embalmed in a book‟: Reviewing the Journalist as Critic” Dominique Marquis (Université du Québec à Montréal): « Procurer à mes lecteurs quelques heures de délassement » : Les Recueils, les Notes de voyage et le roman de Jules-Paul Tardivel John Shoesmith (University of Toronto): “Even Bestsellers Get the News: The Judicious Use of Journalistic Techniques by Arthur Hailey in Creating His Bestsellers”
12:00–1:30 Lunch Break
1:30–3:00 Authoring/Editing/Publishing Canadian Poetry
Room: JR Coutts Engineering Lecture Hall 307
Chair: Patricia Fleming (University of Toronto) Eli MacLaren (McGill University): “Recuperating the Ryerson Poetry Chap-Books”
Sandra Campbell (Carleton University): “Low Tide for Bliss Carman?: The Editing and Critical Reception of Lorne Pierce‟s The Selected Poems of Bliss Carman (1954)” Collett Tracey (Carleton University): “The Scene: Cultural Influences that Shaped the Making of Modern Poetry in Canada.”
3:00–4:00 Carl Spadoni (McMaster University): Celebrating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada
Room: JR Coutts Engineering Lecture Hall 307
Chair: Eli McLaren (McGill University)
4:00–4:30 Break
4:30–6:00 Keynote Address
Joan Judge (York University): “Textual and Material Intersections in the Chinese Periodical Press: Methodological Reflections, Digital Innovations” (sponsored jointly by the Bibliographical Society of Canada and the Canadian Association for the Study of Book Culture)
Room: JR Coutts Engineering Lecture Hall 307
Chair: Janet Friskney (York University)