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Symposium on Book History & Print Culture

Symposium on Book History & Print Culture

Publié le par René Audet (Source : ALCQ)

Symposium on Book History & Print Culture
Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences / Congrès des sciences humaines
Dalhousie University, Halifax Nova Scotia

Friday May 30, 2003
9.30 am to 4.30 pm,
Management Building, Room 212

Following on the initial symposium in Toronto last year, this will be an opportunity for scholars working in a broad range of humanities and social science disciplines in Canadian universities to meet on the common ground of studies of book and print cultures. The gathering will celebrate and draw upon an impressive body of academic activity within Canada, and at the same time extend its disciplinary boundaries and increase its numbers.

9.30 - Welcome from Fiona Black, Dalhousie University School of Library & Information Studies

Program Chair : Leslie Howsam, Department of History, University of Windsor

9.45 - Terence Gordon, Dalhousie University
"How McLuhan Looked at the Book"

10.30 - Richard Cunningham, Acadia University
"Moving Pictures Then and Now: From the Sixteenth Century Book to Hypertext"

11.15 - break

11.30 - Mark Crane, Victoria University, Toronto
"Beyond Biography: Composing a Life of a Renaissance Scholar/Printer Using Printed Paratexts"

12.15 - lunch

1.30 - Elizabeth Sauer, Brock University
"Patents on Truth in Seventeenth Century England"

2.15 - Mair Verthuy, Concordia University
"Le roman policier dans le monde de l'Édition française"

3.00 - break

3.15 - DeNel Rehberg Sedo, Mount Saint Vincent University
"Reading the Nation: An Analysis of CBC's Canada Reads"

4.00 - Ronald Tetreault, Dalhousie University
"Evolution of the Book in Today's Electronic World"