The folks in Birmingham are at it again: this time the conference is November 3 and 4, and the paper proposals are due March 25.
This two-day conference at the Marx Memorial Library will explore the role of printers and print as agents and vehicles of protest. Topics of particular interest include: • Print and polemic / print and propaganda • Protest and the printing trade, including the Stationers’ Company and print unions • Censorship / copyright / the struggle for a free press / control of print and ‘underground’ printing • Protest and objects of print, including texts, images and cartoons • Print, protest and uses of (or resistance to) technology • Women, print and protest •Ethnic minorities, print and protest • Local, national and inter / transnational networks of print and protest.
Abstracts of no longer than 250 words should be submitted along with a brief biography to: Dr Chris Hill (Christopher.Hill@bcu.ac.uk) and Dr Matthew Day (M.Day@staff.newman.ac.uk) Invitees will be allocated 20 minutes in which to present their papers. Abstracts must be received by March 25.
–Bob McCamant