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Here's a CFP that may be of interest.</div>
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<font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Clayton McCarl<br>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> O'Sullivan, Kevin M <kmosullivan@library.tamu.edu><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, March 10, 2021 8:47 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> exlibris-l@list.indiana.edu <exlibris-l@list.indiana.edu>; sharp-l@list.indiana.edu <sharp-l@list.indiana.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [SHARP-L] Announcing CFP: Migrations of the Book</font>
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<span style="font-family:"Baskerville",serif; color:black">We are delighted to share the attached call for papers (also pasted below) for a forthcoming virtual book history conference. We hope you will consider submitting or sharing with others as appropriate.
As you will see, formal papers, research-in-progress, and non-traditional work are all welcome, and the deadline for first consideration is 30 April.</span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:16.0pt; font-family:Palatino; color:black">MIGRATIONS OF THE BOOK</span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:Palatino; color:black">A Virtual Book History Conference</span></b><b><span style="font-family:Palatino; color:black"></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-family:Palatino; color:black">Sponsored by Texas A&M University Libraries</span><span style="font-family:Palatino; color:black"></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Palatino; color:black">21-22 October 2021</span><span style="font-family:Palatino; color:black"></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Palatino; color:black">What happens to a text when it is transported from its native Spain to the colonial frontiers of Mexico? How is our consideration of a Science Fiction pulp magazine augmented when its fantastical contents become
commonplace in our daily lives? What can book conservators teach us about how a book has been influenced by the tastes and biases of its prior readers? What role do material texts play in the lives of the displaced or dispossessed?</span><span style="font-family:Palatino; color:black"></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Palatino; color:black">The book is a critical concept as resilient as it is amorphous, as fixed as it is fluid. It operates as a place of memory, where communication, intellectual advancement, and cultural contact may be reposed and
retrieved. As often, however, books are characterized by their movement and circulation, as well as their ability to be reconstructed and reconsidered in different contexts to create new meaning.</span><span style="font-family:Palatino; color:black"></span></p>
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<i><span style="font-family:Palatino; color:black">Migrations of the Book</span></i><span style="font-family:Palatino; color:black"> will bring together academics, librarians, archivists, and antiquarian booksellers to investigate how books act both as vehicles
for, and monuments of cultural exchange, and to consider what we may learn from this persistent tension between constancy and mutability that is so integral to the medium.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Palatino; color:black">Topics may include, but need not be limited to:</span><span style="font-family:Palatino; color:black"></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Palatino">The migration of texts (across media, between cultures, among social strata, etc.).</span><span style="font-family:Palatino"></span></li><li class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color:black; line-height:13.8pt">
<span style="font-family:Palatino">Studies in provenance and ownership.</span><span style="font-family:Palatino"></span></li><li class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color:black; line-height:13.8pt">
<span style="font-family:Palatino">The migration of libraries through the rare book trade.</span><span style="font-family:Palatino"></span></li><li class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color:black; line-height:13.8pt">
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<span style="font-family:Palatino">The formation and use of hybrid books.</span><span style="font-family:Palatino"></span></li><li class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color:black; line-height:13.8pt">
<span style="font-family:Palatino">Cross-cultural reception studies.</span><span style="font-family:Palatino"></span></li><li class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color:black; line-height:13.8pt">
<span style="font-family:Palatino">Communities that are brought together through the book.</span><span style="font-family:Palatino"></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family:Palatino; color:black">This will be a virtual event composed of several thematically organized panels spread over two days. Participants are encouraged (but not required) to consider how they might make use of the digital medium to
enhance their presentation. Formal papers, research-in-progress, and non-traditional scholarly work are all welcome. Please send abstract proposals (300 words max.) and a brief bio (100 words max., including pronouns) to Kevin M. O’Sullivan (</span><span style="font-family:Palatino; color:black"><a href="mailto:kmosullivan@tamu.edu"><span style="color:#1155CC">kmosullivan@tamu.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-family:Palatino; color:black">)
by 30 April 2021 for first consideration.</span><span style="font-family:Palatino; color:black"></span></p>
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