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Call for Papers: 2024 Conference of the Bibliographical Society of Canada

2024 Conference of the Bibliographical Society of Canada
17–18 June, McGill University
Topographical: The Place of Books

Working with books is in many senses an effort to relate them to places. Writers in all genres describe journeys, encounters, visits, or homecomings in persistent patterns of excursion and return. Readers follow them, searching for the cultural, scientific, informational, or touristic meaning of places – while also trying to find the right place for books in their own lives and dwellings. In its creation and its criticism, literature is classified in geopolitical terms – nation, region, community, locale – and contested by further terms that cut across them spatially – indigeneity, empire, diaspora, fugitivity.

Fall 2023 Bulletin

The latest issue of the Bulletin is now available! Click here for news from the BSC Council and the Society’s members.

If you have news you would like to share with the BSC, do not hesitate
to email the Bulletin editor at: bulletin@bsc-sbc.ca.

Deadline extended: BSC Fellowships 2024 Call for applications

The Bibliographical Society of Canada (BSC) invites applications for the Marie Tremaine Fellowship.

Deadline for application: January 22, 2024.

Deadline extended – Call for Submissions: Fall Bulletin

For its upcoming Fall 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 October 31^st, 2023.

Deadline Extended – Call for Submissions: A Special Issue of Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada

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.

Appointment of New Editor of the Papers/Cahiers

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.

Greta Golick Award Winner for 2023

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

Graduate Student Merit 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.

Spring 2023 Bulletin

The latest issue of the Bulletin is now available! Click here for news from the BSC Council and the Society’s members.

If you have news you would like to share with the BSC, do not hesitate
to email the Bulletin editor at: bulletin@bsc-sbc.ca.

2023 Bernard Amtmann Fellowship Awarded

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.”