I will be attending the SHARP 2011 Regional conference in Brisbane later this week. ‘The Long Twentieth Century’ features a range of papers on topics relating to SHARP’s interests – the history of authorship, reading and publishing. Keynote speakers include James English and Simone Murray. Papers will cover topics as diverse as the history of reading in the First World War, a publishing history of the popular 70s book Late Great Planet Earth, South African university presses during the apartheid era and the future of art books in the age of the iPad. As we move into the brave new world of digital publishing and e-books, it seems particularly relevant to be studying the history of reading, writing and publishing.
Details about the conference can be found here.