Gatherings: Communities of Print and the Book
Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Calgary
May 30-31, 2016
Monday, 30 May 2016
8:00 am – 8:30 am
Welcome and Registration
Location: Taylor Family Digital Library, 520C/D
8:30 am – 10:00 am
Tracing Readership, Authorship and Publishing at the Local and National Levels
Panel Chair: Ruth-Ellen St. Onge, Rare Book School
Location: Taylor Family Digital Library, 520C/D
- National Versus Local, Author Versus Illustrator: The Decline and Fall of John Britton’s Cathedral Antiquities in Regency England
Gerald Beasley, University of Alberta - A Family Affair: Transatlantic Print Culture, Colonial Interests, and the Strickland Family
Jennifer Scott, Simon Fraser University - Alice’s Adventures in Canada: A Publishing History of Wonderland
Amanda Lastoria, Simon Fraser University
10:00 am – 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Cultivating Research on Urban Print Communities
Panel Chair: Kristine Smitka, University of Alberta
Location: Taylor Family Digital Library – 520C/D
- Locally Legible: The Material History of a Learning Reader in St. John’s, NL, in the 1950s
Margaret Mackey, University of Alberta - Popular Print Edmonton
David Buchanan, University of Alberta - “Bow, you f*ckers!”: A History of the Toronto Small Press Fair
John Shoesmith, University of Toronto
12:00 pm – 1:45 pm
Catered Lunch and Annual General Meeting
Location: Taylor Family Digital Library, 520C/D
1:45 pm – 2:00 pm
Pre-Round Table Coffee Break
Location: Taylor Family Digital Library, 520C/D
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Working in the University of Calgary’s Canadian Literary Archives
Interdisciplinary Round Table sponsored by BSC-SbC and CASBC-ACÉHL
Panel Organizers: Carole Gerson, Simon Fraser University; Annie Murray, University of Calgary
Location: Taylor Family Digital Library, 520C/D
I. The Literary Archive: Research Perspectives
- The CANLIT Fonds as a Source for Literary and Book Historians
Heather Murray, University of Toronto - Reading the Alice Munro Fonds, 1988-2016
Robert Thacker, St. Lawrence University, New York - Unexpected Gifts in the Christine van der Mark Fonds
Janice Dowson, Simon Fraser University - Walking the boundary: Kroetsch in Binghamton
David Eso, University of Victoria
II. Digital and Pedagogical Perspectives on the Literary Archive
- Material vs. Digital: An Introduction to the Bob Gibson Collection of Speculative Fiction
Jessica Nicol, University of Calgary - Teaching Through the Literary Archive
Jason Lee Wiens, University of Calgary - The Guy Vanderhaeghe Fonds: A Site for Multi-Faceted Research
Jordan Bolay, University of Calgary
Financial support for this session was provided by the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences
4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Eros and the Phantasms of hereos: The Diseases of Love in Early Modern Culture
Massimo Ciavolella, Franklin D. Murphy Chair in Italian Renaissance Studies and Director of the UCLA Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles
Location: Science Theatres, 140
Interdisciplinary event co-sponsored by the Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies, the Canadian Association for the Study of Book Culture, the Bibliographical Society of Canada, and the Canadian Society of Medievalists
Financial support for this session was provided by the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences
5:30pm – 7:00pm
President’s Reception
Tuesday 31 May 2016
8:30 am – 10:00 am
Gathering Histories: The Ethics of Bibliographical and Archival Research
Panel Chair: Svetlana Kochkina, McGill University
Location: Taylor Family Digital Library, 550A
- Living up to the Promise of the Digital Revolution: A Case Study in Canadian History
Robert Cole and Sharon Farnel, University of Alberta Libraries - Cite First Ask Questions Later? : Toward an Ethic of Zines and Zinesters in Libraries and Research
Joshua Barton and Patrick Olson, Michigan State University Libraries - Private Lib, Public Bib? Cataloguing and Disseminating Indigenous Community Archives
Alana Fletcher, Université de Sherbrooke
10:00 am – 10:15 am
Coffee Break
10:15 am – 11:45 am
People of the Book: The Use of Print Culture by Religious Communities
Interdisciplinary Joint Panel sponsored by the Bibliographical Society of Canada and the Canadian Historical Association
Panel Chair and Organizer: Stuart Barnard, University of Calgary
Location: Taylor Family Digital Library, 550A
- Textual Affections: The Religious Uses of Sympathetic Reading in British North America
Keith S. Grant, University of New Brunswick - History and Subaltern Politics: Counter-cultural Dynamics of Print in Koti-Chennaya Tradition in ‘Tulunadu’
Yogitha Shetty, University of Hyderabad, India - The Great War and Canadian Mainline Protestant Hymnody
Bonnie Woelk, University of Calgary
Financial support for this session was provided by the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Transatlantic Print and Publishing Networks
Panel Chair: Nancy Earle, Memorial University
Location: Taylor Family Digital Library, 550A
- Reading in a “Godforsaken Place”: The Subscription Libraries of Saint John and St. Andrews in Early 19th Century New Brunswick
Gwendolyn Davies, University of New Brunswick - “Some are Engaged in Devising Schemes of Emigration”: 19th Century Print Union Workers and their Networks
Helen Williams, Edinburgh Napier University - Mapping Early Twentieth-Century Publishing Communities
Claire Battershill, Simon Fraser University
3:00 pm – 3:15 pm
Coffee Break
3:15 pm – 4:15 pm
Readers, Movers, and Shakers in the Canadian Field of Literature
Panel Chair: TBA
Location: Taylor Family Digital Library, 550A
- “To Inspire What Is Best in Thought”: Research Potential in Canadian Prime Ministers’ Personal Libraries
Meaghan Scanlon, Library and Archives Canada - “Now, my Boy, Listen to Daddy”: William Arthur Deacon and His Influence on the Governor General’s Literary Awards
Christopher Doody, Carleton University, Recipient of the 2016 Emerging Scholar Prize of the BSC-SbC
5:00– 6:00 pm
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Parchment, Pixels, and Identity: the Place of Ink in the Digital Age
Ted Bishop, University of Alberta
Introduced by: Linda Quirk, University of Alberta
Location: Taylor Family Digital Library – Gallery Hall
Professor Bishop is a two-time Governor General’s Literary Awards nominee, most recently for his book The Social Life of Ink: Culture, Wonder, and our Relationship with the Written Word (2014).
6:30 – 9:00 pm
Closing Reception at Aquila Books
Reception hosted at the antiquarian bookstore, Aquila Books, by the proprietor, Cameron Treleaven, and the BSC.
Address: 826, 16th Avenue NW, Calgary.
Transportation from the University of Calgary campus to Aquila Books will be arranged by shared taxi.