Book Historical & Bibliographical Praxis in Canada
29 May 2017
Ryerson University, Toronto
Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences
N.B.: All participants in the BSC conference are invited to attend our joint day with CASBC on 30 May 2017. See the program for “Bound by Three Oceans” for more details.
9:00 – 9:30 am
Welcome and registration with coffee and refreshments
Room: SLC-Student Learning 508
9:30 – 11:30 am
Round Table: Teaching Bibliography and the History of the Book in Canada
Room: SLC-Student Learning 508
Chair: Eli MacLaren (McGill University)
Teaching the History of Publishing at Simon Fraser University Amanda Lastoria, Simon Fraser University Les programmes d’histoire du livre et de l’édition à l’Université de Sherbrooke Josée Vincent, Université de Sherbrooke The Classroom, the Press Room, the Library, and the City: Experiential Learning and its Contexts in the University of Toronto’s Book History Program Alan Galey, University of Toronto The Role of the Book History Practicum Thomas Keymer, University of Toronto Grab an Apron and Get to Work: Experiential Learning and the Bibliography Room at Massey College Julia King, University of Toronto A Collaborative Effort: The St. Michael’s College Press Lynch-Dunphy Apprenticeship Program Silvia Vong & Manda Vrkljan, University of St. Michael’s College
11:30 – 1:30 pm
Catered Lunch and Annual General Meeting of the BSC
Room: SLC-Student Learning 508
1:30 – 3:00 pm
Women, Writing, and Publishing in Canada
Room: SLC-Student Learning 508
Chair: Nicholas Giguère (Université de Sherbrooke)
Who Were Canada’s Early Women Writers? Carole Gerson, Simon Fraser University Deconstructing the Woman Publishing Worker: A Historiographical Approach Sarah Lubelski, University of Toronto Diriger un magazine féminin dans les années 1950: La Revue moderne, creuset de la littérature en régime médiatique Adrien Rannaud, Université de Sherbrooke, Récipiendaire du Prix nouveau chercheur
3:00 – 3:15 pm
Coffee Break
3:15 – 5:15 pm
Intersections: Pushing the disciplinary boundaries of book history and bibliography
Room: SLC-Student Learning 508
Chair: Linda Quirk (University of Alberta)
Unexplored Business Models in Printing and Publishing: Interdisciplinary Perspectives of Cooperative Printing Firms at the Turn of the 20th Century Fiona A. Black, Dalhousie University Printing Christians: Colonial Print Culture at Rossville Mission Press Roxanne L. Korpan, University of Toronto Revisiting William Burton’s Post-1622 Leicestershire Robert Imes, University of Saskatchewan Paratextual Surrogates: Shadows of the Digital Object Chris J. Young, University of Toronto
5:30 – 6:30 pm
Keynote Address
Room: SLC-Student Learning 508
Introduced by: Nancy Earle (Douglas College)
Struggle and Story: Canada in Print. The Mounting of a Sesquicentennial Exhibition Pearce J. Carefoote, Thomas Fisher Library Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto
5:00 – 7:00 pm
President’s Reception
Program is also available on the Congress website.