CALL FOR PAPRES - Shaping the Self: Print Culture and the Construction of Collective Identity (1460-1660), a one-day interdisciplinary conference, Warwick University (UK), 5 March 2016.
Confirmed Speaker: Dr Luc Racaut (University of Newcastle).
The advent of print not only transformed the role of the book, but also paved the way for the development of new printed media that changed the ways in which readers perceived both the world around them and themselves.
‘Shaping the self: Print culture and the construction of collective identity (1460-1660)’ will bring together scholars working across the Humanities to explore the relationship between early print culture and collective identity.
The one-day conference seeks to examine the impact of printed media on the ways in which individuals and social groups sought to define themselves and others through and in relation to printed material from the earliest days of print to the mid-seventeenth century (including books, maps, pamphlets and early newspapers).
Alongside broader themes such as the relationship between print and urban identity and the use of print to circulate and process transcultural encounters, the conference proposes to explore how aspects of the printing process created and shaped groups of different social status and influenced the lives of the producers and consumers of texts.
Applicants will be invited to propose twenty-minute papers that address aspects of print culture from production to dissemination and beyond. Possible themes may include but are not limited to:
* Print and urban identity
* Ideology, politics and print culture
* Transcultural encounters and print
* Printers, editors and commercial identity
* Communities of readers
* National identity and print culture.
Please submit abstracts of no more than 300 words to the organizers, Matt Coneys and Rebecca Pillière, at printandidentity@gmail.com.
Deadline: 25 September 2015.