Book Culture from Below - The 18th Annual SHARP Conference

Book Culture from Below – The Eighteenth Annual Conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) will take place in Helsinki, 17-21 August 2010. The conference is pleased to present two keynote speakers: Professor Martyn Lyons (University of New South Wales) & ... (more)Professor Ruth B. Bottigheimer (Stony Brook University, New York). The conference will also include three panel discussions on the main theme Book Culture from Below: 1) Conceptual re-evaluations from below 2) Exposing the oral and literary background of fairy tales 3) How the aspect “from below” changes book history. Email: sharp-2010[at]helsinki.fi; Website: http://www.helsinki.fi/sharp2010