OFFICIAL ACADEMIC PROGRAM
The full program of Book Culture from Below - The 18th Annual SHARP Conference is available. You can download the program as pdf-file. To see the abstracts, check the program below and click the titles of the sessions. The program has been updated 24th of August 2010, abstracts may include presentations withdrawn in the last minute.
Tuesday 17 August 2010
Wednesday 18 August 2010
Thursday 19 August 2010
Friday 20 August 2010
09.0017.00
Conference info-desk is open (University Main building, new side)
09.0014.30
SHARP Executive Committee Meeting (University Main Building, old side, Auditorium 7)
15.0017.00
Opening of the conference
(University Main Building, old side, Grand Festive Hall)
Welcome Speeches
Keynote lecture by Prof. Martyn Lyons (University of New South Wales): A New History from Below? The Writing Culture of European Peasants, c. 1850 to c. 1920
Discussion
17.0019.00
Reception of the University of Helsinki
(University Main Building, old side)
08.3017.00
Conference info-desk is open (University Main building, new side)
9.0010.30
Panel 1
1A Self-taught Readers and Writers
1B Women's Book Culture: Periodicals
1C Local Libraries in Rural Cultures
1D Cross-Genre Perspectives on Reading and Using Books
1E Translations and Popularization
1F Twentieth-Century Reading and Book Markets
1G Radical Publishers
1H Aiming at New Buyers and Readers in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century
1I Book Culture and Nationalism
1J The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe, 17691794
10.3011.00
Coffee break (University Main Building , new side 3rd floor)
11.0012.30
Panel 2
2A Working-class Book Culture: Reading
2B Women's Book Culture: Printing and Publishing
2C Early Modern Readers
2D Private Libraries in Rural Cultures
2E Snapshots of the Past and the Present: Canadian Authors and Readers
2F New Publications from below in Modern Book Markets
2G Nineteenth-Century Book Culture
2H Recovering the Record: Researching Book Trade Personnel
2I Below & Beyond Moxon: Printing Manuals & Book History
2J Authorship on the Margins: Print and Performance
12.3014.00
Lunch (Restaurant Bank, Unioninkatu 20)
SHARP Board of advisors' lunch at University Main Building, new side, Runeberg hall
14.0015.30
Panel 3
3A Working-class Book Culture: Writing
3B Reduce, Reuse, Reprint: Textual Lives and Afterlives of Women in Early National Massachusetts
3C Children's Literature Ideological Aspects
3D Religious Aspects of Book Cultures
3E Testing the Limits: Subaltern Populations, Book Culture, and Differential Itineraries of Access
3F Postcolonial Approaches to Book Markets
3G The Economics of the Music Trade
3H Novels, Periodicals and New Readerships
3I Books, Publishing and Literary Authority in the Middle Ages
3J Authorship on the Margins: Class and Gender
15.3015.45
Break
15.4517.15
General panel discussion (Porthania, P1 Grand Lecture Hall)
Conceptual re-evaluations from below
Chair: Dr. Ian Gadd
Discussants: Doc. Anna Kuismin (University of Helsinki), Prof. Jonathan Rose (Drew University), Prof. Johan Svedjedal (Uppsala University), Prof. Nils-Erik Villstrand (Åbo Akademi University)
17.3019.00
Reception of the city of Helsinki (Pohjoisesplanadi 1113)
08.3017.00
Conference info-desk is open (University Main building, new side)
9.0010.30
Panel 4 / Kruununhaka I
4A From Above and Below. Social and Regional Stratifications
4B New Methods for Studying Book Binding
4C Modern Libraries
4D Book Culture in Medieval Northern Europe
10.30-11.00
Coffee break (Coffee is offered in all four locations)
11.0012.30
Panel 5 / Kruunuhaka II
5A From Oral Tradition to Book Culture: Questions of Value and Representation
5B Book Binding and Design
5C Conceptualizing Reading
5D Clandestine Books and Readers
12.3014.00
Lunch (Restaurant Bank, Unioninkatu 20)
14.00-15.30
Panel 6
6A Book culture and Conflict
6B Literary Habits of the Enlightenment
6C Publishing Fairy Tales in New Contexts
6D Popular Prints and Publishing Strategies
6E Anglophone Periodicals and Community Formation in the Atlantic World, 1770-1800
6F Multidisciplinarity of Book History
6G Periodicals and Print: Contents and Connections
6H Authorship on the Margins: Writing the Self and the Other
15.3016.00
Coffee break (University Main Building, new side 3rd floor)
16.0017.30
Keynote lecture (Porthania, P1 Grand Lecture Hall)
Exposing the oral and literary background of fairy tales
Chair: Doc. Kirsti Salmi-Niklander (University of Helsinki)
Key note lecture by Prof. Ruth B. Bottigheimer (Stony Brook University): Upward and Outward: Fairy Tales and Popular, Print, and Proletarian Culture 1550-1850
Comments by Prof. Satu Apo (University of Helsinki) and Dr. Caroline Sumpter (Queen's University, Belfast)
19.00-
SHARP evening banquet (The House of Nobility, Ritarikatu 1)
09.3017.00
Conference info-desk is open (University Main building, new side)
8.459.45
SHARP Liaisons meeting (University Main Building)
9.4511.15
Panel 7
7A Immigrant Book Culture
7B Adaptation of New Knowledge
7C Reading through Life
7D Reading Environments: Libraries, Liberties and Interpretations
7E Printing Presses
7F Transmission of Books and Manuscripts
7G Authorship on the Margins: Everyday Life and Marginalia
7H Women, Books and Images
7I Periodicals and Print: Contexts and Connections, 17251855
7J Iconic Books
11.3012.30
SHARP general meeting (University main building, old side, Grand Festive Hall)
12.3014.00
Lunch (Restaurant Bank, Unioninkatu 20)
14.0015.30
Panel 8
8A Scholarly Works and Book Culture from Below
8B Oral Tradition and Vernacular Literacy
8C Books and Prisons
8D Book culture and the Public Interest
8E Materiality of Books
8F Transnationally Yours: Book Culture from the Margins of the Eighteenth Century
8G Books in Digital Environment
8H Publishing, Authors and Audiences
8I Pictorial Writing
15.3016.00
Coffee break (University Main Building , new side 3rd floor)
16.0017.30
General panel discussion (University Main Building , Grand Festive Hall)
How the aspect from below' changes book history
Chair: Prof. Outi Merisalo
Discussants: Doc. Esko M. Laine (University of Helsinki), Doc. Tuomas Heikkilδ (University of Helsinki), Dr. Ann Steiner ( Lund University), Dr. Jonathan Wild (University of Edinburgh)
17.3018.00
Closing ceremonies (University Main Building, Grand Festive Hall)
