Conference & Workshop report
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SHARP 2024 Conference Reports: Part III
This is the third of a series of short reports on SHARP 2024: Global Book Cultures, provided by select SHARPists who were supported by SHARP travel awards. They are presented below…
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SHARP 2024 Conference Reports: Part II
This is the second of a series of short reports on SHARP 2024: Global Book Cultures, provided by select SHARPists who were supported by SHARP travel awards. They are presented below…
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SHARP 2024: Conversations with the Keynote Speakers
This chat celebrates and reflects on the work presented at SHARP 2024 by keynotes Asha Rogers and Swara Shukla. If you missed the in-person conference, you can watch recordings of Asha’s…
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SHARP 2024 Conference Reports: Part I
This is the first of a series of short reports on SHARP 2024: Global Book Cultures, provided by select SHARPists who were supported by SHARP travel awards. They are presented below…
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Conference Review: SHARP 2022
Amsterdam’s background complemented the theme of the conference repeatedly, and history joined hands with the contemporary understanding of print culture. In my personal experience, the SHARP 2022 conference was a…
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Roundtable Review: Queer/ing Book History. SHARP: Moving Texts. 2021.
Poring over card catalogues? Check. Feeling oddly compelled by titles, cover copy or illustrations? Check. Scrutinising author photographs and biographies, publishers’ colophons and blurbs? – I’m just going to come…
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On Decolonising Book History
Discussions on how to decolonise academia are far from new. As scholars, we are keenly aware that the current privileged knowledge structures have co-built the world we live in with…