Symposium on Book & Print Culture
at the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of
Toronto
Tuesday May 28, 9am-5pm
Clara Benson Building, Room 307
A one-day Symposium at this year's Congress will be an occasion 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.
9:15 Welcome and Opening Remarks:
Leslie Howsam (University of Windsor), General Editor, University of Toronto
Press series in Book and Print Culture
9: 30 Betty A. Schellenberg (Simon Fraser University)
"Remembering Beyond 'The Great Forgetting': Women Writers, Literary History,
and Print-Culture Studies"
10:15 coffee
10:30 Jacques Michon (Université de Sherbrooke)
"Vingt ans de recherche sur le livre et l'édition"
11:15 Lorraine Janzen Kooistra (Nipissing University)
"Problems in The History of the Book: The Case of Victorian Illustrated
Poetry"
12:00 lunch
1.00 Jeet Heer (York University)
"From Everyday Art to Microfilm: The Challenges of Writing the History of
Newspaper Comics"
1:45 Brian McKillop (Carleton University)
"Researching Mr. Canada: A Prospective Biographer Looks to the Sources"
2:30 coffee
2:45 George Elliott Clarke (University of Toronto)
"Landing a Voice: Locating the Early Dionne Brand"
3:30 to 4.30 Discussion of future Congress events featuring Book and Print
Culture Studies.
