{"id":5534,"date":"2024-12-20T17:24:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T22:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sharpweb.org\/sharpnews\/?p=5534"},"modified":"2025-09-28T16:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T20:01:08","slug":"sharp-2024-conference-reports-part-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sharpweb.org\/sharpnews\/2024\/12\/20\/sharp-2024-conference-reports-part-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"SHARP 2024 Conference Reports: Part III"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-base-background-color has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-258e4d99 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide has-base-2-background-color has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-da4c956d wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"border-radius:25px;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-5eaea892 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><h1 class=\"wp-block-post-title\">SHARP 2024 Conference Reports: Part III<\/h1>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-template-part\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide has-contrast-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-1 is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-3f968af1 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:600\"><div class=\"has-text-align-left has-link-color wp-elements-2 wp-block-post-date has-text-color has-contrast-color\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sharpweb.org\/sharpnews\/2024\/12\/20\/sharp-2024-conference-reports-part-iii\/\"><time datetime=\"2024-12-20T17:24:00-05:00\">December 20, 2024<\/time><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-contrast-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-contrast-color has-text-color has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">by<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"has-link-color wp-elements-3 wp-block-post-author-name has-text-color has-contrast-color\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sharpweb.org\/sharpnews\/author\/editor\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"wp-block-post-author-name__link\">Editor<\/a><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"taxonomy-category has-link-color wp-elements-4 wp-block-post-terms has-text-color has-contrast-color\"><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__prefix\">in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sharpweb.org\/sharpnews\/category\/reviews\/conference-report\/\" rel=\"tag\">Conference &amp; Workshop report<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sharpweb.org\/sharpnews\/category\/members\/\" rel=\"tag\">Member &amp; Organization news<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sharpweb.org\/sharpnews\/category\/reviews\/\" rel=\"tag\">Reviews<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><div class=\"wpcp-wp-lightbox-host wpcp-advanced-image-lightbox-icon-hover\"><a class=\"wpcp-wp-lightbox-image-link\" data-wpcp-wp-lb-image=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/sharpweb.org\/sharpnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/SHARP-2024-Conference_Logo-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"680\" src=\"https:\/\/sharpweb.org\/sharpnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/SHARP-2024-Conference_Logo-1-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"Red logo for SHARP 2024 Conference.\" class=\"wp-image-5489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sharpweb.org\/sharpnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/SHARP-2024-Conference_Logo-1-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sharpweb.org\/sharpnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/SHARP-2024-Conference_Logo-1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sharpweb.org\/sharpnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/SHARP-2024-Conference_Logo-1-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sharpweb.org\/sharpnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/SHARP-2024-Conference_Logo-1.jpg 1484w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sharpweb.org\/sharpnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/SHARP-2024-Conference_Logo-1.jpg\" data-fancybox=\"wpcp-wp-img-5489\" class=\"wpcp-lightbox-trigger wpcp-advanced-image-lightbox-icon wpcp-position-top-right wpcp-advanced-image-lightbox-icon-hover wpcp-global-lightbox-icon wpcp-lightbox-icon--global wpcp-lb-icon-style-default\" data-wpcp-lb-icon-source=\"global\" aria-label=\"Open image in lightbox\" data-thumb-src=\"https:\/\/sharpweb.org\/sharpnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/SHARP-2024-Conference_Logo-1-300x199.jpg\" data-wpcp-lb-single=\"1\"><span class=\"wpcp-icon-container\"><svg viewBox=\"0 0 20 20\"><path d=\"M17.6585 16.025L14.2437 12.6198C15.1716 11.3338 15.6121 9.7613 15.4871 8.1819C15.362 6.60251 14.6795 5.11847 13.5607 3.99351C12.936 3.36206 12.1916 2.86066 11.3709 2.51845C10.5502 2.17623 9.66952 2 8.77995 2C7.89039 2 7.00969 2.17623 6.18899 2.51845C5.36829 2.86066 4.62395 3.36206 3.99919 3.99351C3.36594 4.61649 2.86312 5.35871 2.51992 6.17708C2.17673 6.99545 2 7.87365 2 8.76068C2 9.64772 2.17673 10.5259 2.51992 11.3443C2.86312 12.1627 3.36594 12.9049 3.99919 13.5279C5.11957 14.6901 6.62279 15.4103 8.23285 15.5562C9.84291 15.7022 11.4517 15.2641 12.7639 14.3224L16.1788 17.7275C16.3849 17.9034 16.6473 18 16.9186 18C17.1899 18 17.4523 17.9034 17.6585 17.7275C18.1138 17.16 18.1138 16.5925 17.6585 16.025ZM5.59278 12.0523C5.16258 11.6298 4.82094 11.1263 4.58774 10.5709C4.35455 10.0156 4.23446 9.41951 4.23446 8.81744C4.23446 8.21536 4.35455 7.6193 4.58774 7.06394C4.82094 6.50859 5.16258 6.00503 5.59278 5.58257C6.01644 5.15359 6.52144 4.81292 7.07838 4.58039C7.63532 4.34786 8.23308 4.22811 8.83687 4.22811C9.44066 4.22811 10.0384 4.34786 10.5954 4.58039C11.1523 4.81292 11.6573 5.15359 12.081 5.58257C12.5112 6.00503 12.8528 6.50859 13.086 7.06394C13.3192 7.6193 13.4393 8.21536 13.4393 8.81744C13.4393 9.41951 13.3192 10.0156 13.086 10.5709C12.8528 11.1263 12.5112 11.6298 12.081 12.0523C11.6573 12.4813 11.1523 12.822 10.5954 13.0545C10.0384 13.287 9.44066 13.4068 8.83687 13.4068C8.23308 13.4068 7.63532 13.287 7.07838 13.0545C6.52144 12.822 6.01644 12.4813 5.59278 12.0523Z\" \/><\/svg><\/span><\/a><\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>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<\/em>.&nbsp;<em>They are presented below in interview format. Please feel free to reach out to these scholars for collaboration and networking! Their contact info is hyperlinked to each of their names, below.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-base-2-background-color has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-3749991f wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"border-radius:25px\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-3a88641f wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Go To<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-0aa01211 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"#work\">Panel Presentations<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"#session\">Reviews of Other Panels<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"#reading\">Book recs.<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-3a88641f wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><div class=\"wpcp-wp-lightbox-host wpcp-advanced-image-lightbox-icon-hover\"><a class=\"wpcp-wp-lightbox-image-link\" data-wpcp-wp-lb-image=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/sharpweb.org\/sharpnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Panel-on-Caste-Print-and-Power-Manohar-N-1-1024x768-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/sharpweb.org\/sharpnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Panel-on-Caste-Print-and-Power-Manohar-N-1-1024x768-1.jpg\" alt=\"Image uploaded by N Manohar Reddy. Shows four male presenting scholars setting at a panel in front of a &quot;welcome to SHARP 2024&quot; screen.\" class=\"wp-image-5537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sharpweb.org\/sharpnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Panel-on-Caste-Print-and-Power-Manohar-N-1-1024x768-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sharpweb.org\/sharpnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Panel-on-Caste-Print-and-Power-Manohar-N-1-1024x768-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sharpweb.org\/sharpnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Panel-on-Caste-Print-and-Power-Manohar-N-1-1024x768-1-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sharpweb.org\/sharpnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Panel-on-Caste-Print-and-Power-Manohar-N-1-1024x768-1.jpg\" data-fancybox=\"wpcp-wp-img-5537\" class=\"wpcp-lightbox-trigger wpcp-advanced-image-lightbox-icon wpcp-position-top-right wpcp-advanced-image-lightbox-icon-hover wpcp-global-lightbox-icon wpcp-lightbox-icon--global wpcp-lb-icon-style-default\" data-wpcp-lb-icon-source=\"global\" aria-label=\"Open image in lightbox\" data-thumb-src=\"https:\/\/sharpweb.org\/sharpnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Panel-on-Caste-Print-and-Power-Manohar-N-1-1024x768-1-300x225.jpg\" data-wpcp-lb-single=\"1\"><span class=\"wpcp-icon-container\"><svg viewBox=\"0 0 20 20\"><path d=\"M17.6585 16.025L14.2437 12.6198C15.1716 11.3338 15.6121 9.7613 15.4871 8.1819C15.362 6.60251 14.6795 5.11847 13.5607 3.99351C12.936 3.36206 12.1916 2.86066 11.3709 2.51845C10.5502 2.17623 9.66952 2 8.77995 2C7.89039 2 7.00969 2.17623 6.18899 2.51845C5.36829 2.86066 4.62395 3.36206 3.99919 3.99351C3.36594 4.61649 2.86312 5.35871 2.51992 6.17708C2.17673 6.99545 2 7.87365 2 8.76068C2 9.64772 2.17673 10.5259 2.51992 11.3443C2.86312 12.1627 3.36594 12.9049 3.99919 13.5279C5.11957 14.6901 6.62279 15.4103 8.23285 15.5562C9.84291 15.7022 11.4517 15.2641 12.7639 14.3224L16.1788 17.7275C16.3849 17.9034 16.6473 18 16.9186 18C17.1899 18 17.4523 17.9034 17.6585 17.7275C18.1138 17.16 18.1138 16.5925 17.6585 16.025ZM5.59278 12.0523C5.16258 11.6298 4.82094 11.1263 4.58774 10.5709C4.35455 10.0156 4.23446 9.41951 4.23446 8.81744C4.23446 8.21536 4.35455 7.6193 4.58774 7.06394C4.82094 6.50859 5.16258 6.00503 5.59278 5.58257C6.01644 5.15359 6.52144 4.81292 7.07838 4.58039C7.63532 4.34786 8.23308 4.22811 8.83687 4.22811C9.44066 4.22811 10.0384 4.34786 10.5954 4.58039C11.1523 4.81292 11.6573 5.15359 12.081 5.58257C12.5112 6.00503 12.8528 6.50859 13.086 7.06394C13.3192 7.6193 13.4393 8.21536 13.4393 8.81744C13.4393 9.41951 13.3192 10.0156 13.086 10.5709C12.8528 11.1263 12.5112 11.6298 12.081 12.0523C11.6573 12.4813 11.1523 12.822 10.5954 13.0545C10.0384 13.287 9.44066 13.4068 8.83687 13.4068C8.23308 13.4068 7.63532 13.287 7.07838 13.0545C6.52144 12.822 6.01644 12.4813 5.59278 12.0523Z\" \/><\/svg><\/span><\/a><\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><div class=\"wpcp-wp-lightbox-host wpcp-advanced-image-lightbox-icon-hover\"><a class=\"wpcp-wp-lightbox-image-link\" data-wpcp-wp-lb-image=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/sharpweb.org\/sharpnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screen-Shot-2024-09-14-at-8.32.21-PM-Cy-Mirol-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"919\" height=\"557\" src=\"https:\/\/sharpweb.org\/sharpnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screen-Shot-2024-09-14-at-8.32.21-PM-Cy-Mirol-2.png\" alt=\"Image shared by Lozana Rossenova. Shows two women presenting scholars sitting across from each other in front of a projection of a black and white photo of a woman in a white dress with a housing track on the background. Some white sheets of paper sit face down in front of the two speakers.\" class=\"wp-image-5538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sharpweb.org\/sharpnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screen-Shot-2024-09-14-at-8.32.21-PM-Cy-Mirol-2.png 919w, https:\/\/sharpweb.org\/sharpnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screen-Shot-2024-09-14-at-8.32.21-PM-Cy-Mirol-2-300x182.png 300w, https:\/\/sharpweb.org\/sharpnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screen-Shot-2024-09-14-at-8.32.21-PM-Cy-Mirol-2-768x465.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 919px) 100vw, 919px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sharpweb.org\/sharpnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screen-Shot-2024-09-14-at-8.32.21-PM-Cy-Mirol-2.png\" data-fancybox=\"wpcp-wp-img-5538\" class=\"wpcp-lightbox-trigger wpcp-advanced-image-lightbox-icon wpcp-position-top-right wpcp-advanced-image-lightbox-icon-hover wpcp-global-lightbox-icon wpcp-lightbox-icon--global wpcp-lb-icon-style-default\" data-wpcp-lb-icon-source=\"global\" aria-label=\"Open image in lightbox\" data-thumb-src=\"https:\/\/sharpweb.org\/sharpnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screen-Shot-2024-09-14-at-8.32.21-PM-Cy-Mirol-2-300x182.png\" data-wpcp-lb-single=\"1\"><span class=\"wpcp-icon-container\"><svg viewBox=\"0 0 20 20\"><path d=\"M17.6585 16.025L14.2437 12.6198C15.1716 11.3338 15.6121 9.7613 15.4871 8.1819C15.362 6.60251 14.6795 5.11847 13.5607 3.99351C12.936 3.36206 12.1916 2.86066 11.3709 2.51845C10.5502 2.17623 9.66952 2 8.77995 2C7.89039 2 7.00969 2.17623 6.18899 2.51845C5.36829 2.86066 4.62395 3.36206 3.99919 3.99351C3.36594 4.61649 2.86312 5.35871 2.51992 6.17708C2.17673 6.99545 2 7.87365 2 8.76068C2 9.64772 2.17673 10.5259 2.51992 11.3443C2.86312 12.1627 3.36594 12.9049 3.99919 13.5279C5.11957 14.6901 6.62279 15.4103 8.23285 15.5562C9.84291 15.7022 11.4517 15.2641 12.7639 14.3224L16.1788 17.7275C16.3849 17.9034 16.6473 18 16.9186 18C17.1899 18 17.4523 17.9034 17.6585 17.7275C18.1138 17.16 18.1138 16.5925 17.6585 16.025ZM5.59278 12.0523C5.16258 11.6298 4.82094 11.1263 4.58774 10.5709C4.35455 10.0156 4.23446 9.41951 4.23446 8.81744C4.23446 8.21536 4.35455 7.6193 4.58774 7.06394C4.82094 6.50859 5.16258 6.00503 5.59278 5.58257C6.01644 5.15359 6.52144 4.81292 7.07838 4.58039C7.63532 4.34786 8.23308 4.22811 8.83687 4.22811C9.44066 4.22811 10.0384 4.34786 10.5954 4.58039C11.1523 4.81292 11.6573 5.15359 12.081 5.58257C12.5112 6.00503 12.8528 6.50859 13.086 7.06394C13.3192 7.6193 13.4393 8.21536 13.4393 8.81744C13.4393 9.41951 13.3192 10.0156 13.086 10.5709C12.8528 11.1263 12.5112 11.6298 12.081 12.0523C11.6573 12.4813 11.1523 12.822 10.5954 13.0545C10.0384 13.287 9.44066 13.4068 8.83687 13.4068C8.23308 13.4068 7.63532 13.287 7.07838 13.0545C6.52144 12.822 6.01644 12.4813 5.59278 12.0523Z\" \/><\/svg><\/span><\/a><\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\"><strong>Tell us a little about yourself and your research.<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m <a href=\"mailto:manohar@nalsar.ac.in\"><strong>N Manohar Reddy<\/strong><\/a> (he\/his). My Ph.D. was on the modernization of Telugu, spoken by around 96 million people and is one of the prominent four languages of South India. It is the official language of two Indian states: Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. For my Ph.D., I researched on the late nineteenth and early twentieth century colonial enterprise of Telugu print and publishing, in which the Telugu intelligentsia enthusiastically participated and collaborated. My research shows how print and publishing led to the emergence and consolidation of linguistic national identity which often clashed with the pan Indian nationalist movement that viewed linguistic national movements (Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Oriya, Bengali, and so on) as illegitimate, chauvinistic, jingoistic, divisive, and so on and were perceived as threats to its own existence. While the Indian nationalists claimed that India was one nation, the leaders of linguistic nationalisms challenged such claims and argued that India was a federation of Nations\/nationalities, and only a federal India could be secular and was suitable for democracy and more conducive for achieving popular sovereignty. Ironically, after India got independence, Indian languages and their respective print cultures have been consistently on the decline. Unlike the existing research that sees colonization and English as the culprits for such a state of affairs, my research shows that it is the Indian nationalism that has contributed to such a disaster. Of late, I have also been working on the Telugu journals run by marginalized communities such as Dalits (formerly untouchables) and Adivasis (indigenous communities).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My name is <a href=\"mailto: saskia.roberts@anu.edu.au\"><strong>Saskia Roberts<\/strong> <\/a>(she\/her). I am a PhD candidate in History at the Australian National University. My thesis is tentatively titled \u2018Reading for pleasure: Australian teenage girls, intimate knowledge and print culture, 1970\u20132010.\u2019 I am interested in how girls encountered and interacted with publications that discussed topics like sexuality, reproduction, puberty, contraception, sexually transmitted illnesses and romance and relationships. My research has involved conducting approximately forty oral history interviews with people who were teenage girls in Australia in the recent past. I\u2019ve also spent a lot of time reading sex education manuals, teenage fiction and copies of Dolly, a magazine infamous in Australia for its medical advice column which answered letters about puberty and sex. I have been lucky to access a private archive of approximately five thousand of these letters too. My work has been published in Lilith: A Feminist History Journal and The Conversation. Before I began my doctorate, I was a Senior Research Officer at the Northern Territory Treaty Commission, where I researched colonisation and reconciliation in Canada and Australia, and wrote discussion papers calling for a Truth Commission in Australia\u2019s north. After eleven years in Canberra, I now study remotely and live in Madrid. I like hiking, trying new foods and going to the beach, all things I hope to do more often once I submit my PhD!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m <a href=\"http:\/\/lozanarossenova.com\"><strong>Lozana Rossenova<\/strong><\/a> (she \/her). I am a digital humanities researcher and designer based in Berlin. I studied art and design in New York, before moving to the UK to pursue an MA degree at the Department for Typography and Graphic Communication in the University of Reading. I was a Sessional Lecturer in hybrid and digital publication design at Reading between 2016\u00ac-2021. In 2021, I completed a PhD at the Centre for the Study of the Networked Image (London South Bank University) in collaboration with Rhizome, a leading international born-digital art organisation. My research focused on questions related to presentation and performativity in the online archive of born-digital art, which I examined through the lens of interface design (theory and practice). I am currently a Postdoc Researcher at the Open Science Lab at TIB (German National Library of Science and Technology, Hannover) working on the NFDI4Culture project for a national research infrastructure of cultural heritage data. My work focuses on open-source and community-driven approaches to digital infrastructures, which organise, store and make knowledge, and different ways of knowing, accessible. I continue to collaborate extensively with international research and cultural institutions, including the Department for Typography and Graphic Communication at Reading, Aarhus University, Department of Digital Design and Information Studies at Aarhus University, Critical Media Lab (Basel), Piet Zwart Institute (Rotterdam), NYU (NY &amp; Berlin), among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>I&#8217;m <a href=\"mailto:nsalama@luc.edu\">Nicole Salama<\/a><\/strong> (she\/her). I am currently a Ph.D. student at Loyola University Chicago, where I study Modern Literature and Culture. My research considers the various modes that literature occupies, especially its transformation from manuscript to print. Specifically, I am interested in the ways that this process is managed on behalf of many women writers. My current research examines the initial publications of late 19th century and 20th century works, many of which, despite initial skepticism, are now canonical\u2014from Emily Dickinson\u2019s poems to Gloria Anzald\u00faa\u2019s Borderlands\/La Frontera: A New Mestiza. I examine the inextricable social and financial networks that produced the first editions these works. My primary focus is on bibliographic codes of prices. I find that these small markings hint at the larger economic considerations and ultimately point to the cultural value the publisher both predicts for the book and shapes the book to attract. By tracking these trends from the end of the 19th century and through the 20th century, I hope to contribute to providing a robust social text that could elaborate on the treatment of women writers, many of whom occupied intersectional identities, from the end of the 19th century into the contemporary age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My name is <a href=\"mailto:ksegelen@gmail.com\"><strong>Ksenia Papazova<\/strong><\/a> (she\/her). I have recently completed my PhD on print culture in post-Soviet Russia at the University of Manchester, where I continue to teach a range of courses. My PhD thesis examined the neovintage book in Russia, which are new editions of books published at the turn of the nineteenth century in Europe and Russia. These neovintage books attempt to reproduce the aesthetics of the old editions by copying thoroughly not only elements of their design, but also their shabbiness and traces of previous ownership, resulting in visual illusions of torn bindings, scratches on covers, and foxing. Individual chapters explored the reception of the neovintage book through the prism of readers\u2019 attitudes to vintage aesthetics and Soviet book culture, based on findings from online bookshops. I am interested in (post-)Soviet book cultures, materiality, vintage aesthetics, and how a concept of time can be embedded in the material object of the book. I received my MA in Book and Digital Media Studies from Leiden University, the Netherlands. I am also the managing editor at publishing house Glagoslav, which specialises in translations from Eastern European languages into English and Dutch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" id=\"work\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Can you share a bit about the work you presented at the conference?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>N Manohar<\/strong>: Our panel titled, &#8220;Caste, Print and Power&#8221; was scheduled on the first day afternoon of the conference, and was chaired by Prof. Graham Shaw. The panel had three speakers: Sayanthan Mondal, Rahul Jondhale Hiraman and N. Manohar Reddy. My paper was titled, &#8220;A Journal of Adivasi Resistance in Modern India.&#8221; It was about a Telugu little journal run by two prominent personalities belonging to the most marginalized communities in India, namely, Erukalas and Yanadis which were classified as &#8220;Criminal Tribes&#8221; by the British India government. Post independence, while the Nehruvian national state\u2019s ambitious attempts at building modern India through economic initiatives is well known, &#8220;Adivasi&#8221; provides us with a critical understanding of how Adivasi communities responded to such state-driven governmental initiatives, which had nothing to offer to the so called Criminal Tribes. In addition, the journal became a platform to mobilize the scattered adivasis\u2014Eurukalas, Yanadis, Lambadas, Pichhigontlas, and so on\u2014as one community to fight against the hardships they were facing, such as lack of food, drinking water, education, employment, oppression by the upper castes, police atrocities and so on. While the audience for our panel was small, Q&amp;A and post-presentation discussions were interesting. There were some insightful questions and a couple of suggestions as well. Overall, it was the worth the effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Saskia:<\/strong> I was in the panel \u2018Young adult fiction\u2019 with Amanda K. Allen. Amanda gave a brilliant paper about an influential literary network of librarians, authors, editors and publishers that operated in the USA in the mid-twentieth century, just before the rise of contemporary young adult fiction. This network functioned, in part, to make sure writing for adolescents instilled \u2018positive values\u2019 \u2013 a nebulous but important idea that shaped the content and messaging of several publications. Amanda\u2019s work spoke to my own very well, but also provided a good contrast. My paper was titled \u2018The Joy of Sex(ual Reading): Australian teenage girls, illicit literature and sexual learning, 1970\u20132010.\u2019 It was about how Australian girls stumbled upon and sought out texts like erotic fiction, lovemaking manuals and porn magazines in the recent past. These works certainly did not contain the \u2018positive values\u2019 the children\u2019s literary network had in mind a decade or two before! Drawing on my oral history interviews, I revealed that many girls read against the grain of these sexual texts to produce their own meanings. In girls\u2019 hands, these publications could highlight bodily diversity and queer sexualities, allow for productive, shared debate of sexual mores and even lead to an active rejection of violent pornography. I also discussed how girls eroticised much more pedestrian texts, many of which may appear mundane to adult readers; these included dermatology textbooks, Peter Mayle\u2019s sex education classic Where Did I Come From? and even a library book with reproductions of Renaissance nudes (and these were just the examples I had time to include in the paper). In drawing attention to these forms of reading, I demonstrated how girls\u2019 reading habits deviated from those of adults, bucking historical trends towards silent, individual reading. Girls often swapped erotic texts and\/or read them together, with some of my participants recalling this collective engagement as not only a fun activity but a social obligation: if one girl found a text with sexual information, she had to share it and enlighten her friends as well. Overall \u2013 and without endorsing any of the texts I mentioned \u2013 I wanted to challenge ideas that illicit literature is inherently harmful in the hands of teenage girls. Girls in the recent past \u2013 and indeed today \u2013 are not passive consumers of culture, but are capable of challenging and even shaping sexual norms through their interactions with texts. A highlight of the panel was, undoubtedly, when I mentioned a major debate in Australia about condom vending machines and somebody thought I said \u2018hotdog machines\u2019. A more genuine highlight was the productive discussion that took place during question and answer time, as well as the recommendations and personal stories audience members shared with me. It\u2019s always interesting (and useful) to be reminded of how widespread the reading practices I study were \u2013 I now know girls in the UK also used their peer networks to share illicit texts, just like my interviewees in Australia!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Lozana<\/strong>: I co-chaired the hybrid panel session: \u2018Experimental publishing: networked cultures, archival initiatives and recursive publics\u2019 alongside Dr Ruth Blacksell. The panel included paper contributions by Dr Blacksell and Dr Lucie Kolb, and an interactive video presentation by designer Mindy Seu. The panel was conceived by Blacksell as a continuation of two previous panel events we co-organized together with support from the Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing. The first of these, \u2018Experimental publishing and alternative networked cultures\u2019 took place in 2021 and was instigated by our common preoccupation with historical as well as contemporary references that examine experimental publishing through a range of perspectives, spanning the fields of art, communication design, digital media and software development. Through our introduction and invited guest contributions we sketched out some of the links between conceptual and performance art practices from the 1960s, (Dr Blacksell\u2019s primary research field) which fed into critical debates in art and design discourse \u2013 vis-a-vis the role of the active audience\/reader\/user \u2013 emerging in the 1980s and \u201890s with the broader availability of desktop computing and networked communications (the latter of which were the topic of my own doctoral research). With the second event in the series, \u2018Experimental publishing and new archival initiatives\u2019, which took place in 2022, we took note of the increasing significance of archival initiatives in experimental, grassroots publishing which have extended relationships between social and media environments over the past decade. We were interested in the breakdown of strict boundaries between activities of publishing and archiving, enabled through the hybridization of digital and analog contexts. With the panel at SHARP, we continued this line of inquiry by adding two additional speakers \/ practitioners who bring their own specialised perspectives, but are closely connected in a variety of ways to networks of ideas, projects and practices we were bringing to the foreground with the first two events. Dr Lucie Kolb is not only a well-known scholar of experimental publishing across the art and design world, but works fluidly across archives and publications as information spaces with potential to generate new forms of sociality. As part of a collaborative project with the Critical Media Lab in Basel, Kolb is assembling an archive of networked artistic production, whose infrastructure will be based on the collaborative, open source software developed by my team at the Open Science Lab. The link to archives and networked cultures is furthered by Mindy Seu\u2019s video contribution to the panel. Seu has developed a collaborative archive of cyberfeminist publications which features materials and inspiration from the Rhizome net art archive and beyond. The archive takes multiple forms across digital and analog contexts and openly references historical sources from the conceptual and performance art space in the 60s and 70s to the proto-networks of the (Feminist) Whole Earth Catalog communities. The panel brought together a range of significant historical references alongside concrete projects and practice examples of new forms of collaborative and interactive (i.e. embodying the \u2018recursive\u2019 concept as defined by activists of the open source software movement) public engagement with acts, platforms and environments of publishing. It proved to be a valuable forum for exchange that furthered previous event discussions and set out routes for possible future collaborations, staying close to the networked spirit of the researched materials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Nicole<\/strong>: It was a joy to present alongside Mela D\u00e1vila Freire and Camila Gonzalez Simon as part of the \u201cAlternative Publishing Cultures: Latinx &amp; Latin America\u201d panel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My paper, entitled \u201cGloria Anzald\u00faa\u2019s Borderlands\/La Frontera and Developing a Praxis of Decolonial Publishing,\u201d traces the evolving relationship between Anzald\u00faa and Joan Pinkvoss, her publisher at Aunt Lute. Pinkvoss sought out Anzald\u00faa to urge her to consider publishing her work with Aunt Lute upon hearing her read a few poems from an initial draft of Borderlands\/La Frontera. Despite this early and fervent interest in the poems, the work changed dramatically as the pair began to work together towards the book\u2019s publication. The nature of these changes\u2014changes to aspects of the book as fundamental as genre\u2014suggests a complicated authorship. Of course, the complications only increased when the widespread reach of Anzald\u00faa\u2019s masterpiece quickly became evident. Though book sales were high, Anzald\u00faa reaped few of the financial rewards, often begging Pinkvoss for her royalties as various needs arose in her personal life. By considering this publishing narrative, I search for a distinctly decolonial mode of publishing. Aunt Lute in many ways sets a good example, publishing and promoting the works of marginal writers without conditioning their acceptance and support of these works purely on their potential to garner sales revenue. My paper suggests that it is additionally necessary to ensure that publishing these works does not leave writers in a more precarious position. Unfortunately, many of the small, often feminist, presses that actively publish marginal writers are themselves in unstable positions. In many cases then, funds must be devoted either to enabling the press to continue or to paying authors\u2019 royalties. As a result, I propose that presses ought to plan for their own dissolution, supporting writers as they operate and by preparing them and their works for a future beyond the press when it can no longer support them. In many ways, Freire and Simon\u2019s presentations actively seek to remedy discrepencies in publishing and promotion of marginal artists. Their projects both envision alternative publicity and publishing structures for Latinx artists. Freire\u2019s exhibition \u201cOff-Register\u201d sought to fill a noticeable gap in the representation of Latin women artists in the second half of the 20th century. Her stunning exhibit centers these women and their art without simplifying these diverse works into a singular artistic narrative. Her exhibit thus promotes these artists\u2019 works on their own terms. Meanwhile, Simon\u2019s zine making practices strive towards granting everyone, particularly those without easy access to representation, a voice in print. Her work encourages not only authorial self-reflection, but also dissemination of unique, various, and very necessary perspectives. Both of their presentations have inspired me as I continue to consider the necessary practices for a decolonial press, as have the abundantly helpful questions and advice provided by the panel\u2019s kind audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Ksenia<\/strong>: My paper was part of \u201cThe Victorians: Book cultures and reception\u201d (Thursday, 4 July), together with Dipanjan Maitra and Alex Bubb. I chose to talk about one translation of Charles Dickens into Russian published in 2010. What is unusual about this translation is that it copies rather faithfully the design and original illustrations of an undated edition, published by Raphael Tuck &amp; Sons, Ltd. in London c. 1910. I was interested in exploring how paratextual elements of English culture are translated into Russian culture. I used paratextual studies and translation studies as my framework drawing on the works of Lawrence Venuti and Gerard Genette. By analysing the paratextual elements (book covers, title pages, formats, and books as material object itself) of the English and Russian editions in terms of domestication and foreignisation, I could reconstruct the editorial process of this translation step by step. I came up with a term \u2018historical paratexts\u2019 to show how the Victorian design features are carefully reconstructed in the book: e.g. textual elements and florid designs on the cover. The publisher\u2019s decisions to retain, omit, or change design elements of one print culture and recreate them in another foregrounds appreciation of a foreign book culture and the book as a material artefact, as well as a changing publishing landscape in the digital age. This Russian edition of Dickens reveals a publisher\u2019s struggle to both preserve the English spirit of the original and follow Russian book design conventions. It also challenges our assumptions about the role paratexts play in a publisher-reader interaction. However, there is an additional layer to the book. The 2010 edition emphasises the traces of previous ownership and associated tear and wear, recreated in what I call \u2018vintage paratexts.\u2019 The effects of ageing and traces of previous ownership, which vintage paratexts embody, are created digitally by the publisher based on the translator\u2019s copy of Dickens. The Russian edition of Dickens marks the birth of vintage paratext in Russia, made possible due to the technological advances at the publisher\u2019s disposal. The book\u2019s visual complexity is achieved by an interplay between historical and vintage paratextual elements, which create a separate space for interpretation and interaction with the book as an object. Peritexts, which are usually meant to frame the text inside the book, come to the fore and almost subdue the voice of the text. It is arguably the artificial antiquity itself in the book design makes the book seem more authentic and sincere, stimulating in the reader the feeling of cultural and social involvement in the historical process by means of travelling through time together with the book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" id=\"session\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Beside your own panel, what was your favorite session at the 2024 SHARP Conference?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>N Manohar<\/strong>: The session on 2nd July, &#8220;Transatlantic Slave Trade and Print Culture in Latin America (18th and 19th Centuries).&#8221; Agnes Gehbald&#8217;s presentation was very thought provoking and was well researched. We registered only for the first two days of the conference as the registration fee was quite high. Thus, sadly, we missed some more interesting sessions scheduled on the last three days of the conference!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Saskia<\/strong>: It\u2019s very hard to pick a favourite. In the session following mine, \u2018Access denied: how censorship and book banning shapes reading and archives\u2019, Lindsay DiCuirci, Tamara Bhalla and Lisa Z. Sigel conducted a timely conversation about the past, present and future of literary censorship. I opened my own paper with a discussion of a similar topic; last year, a sex education book for which I provided basic research assistance was subject to a vitriolic online campaign after a right-wing thinktank claimed it was \u2018grooming\u2019 children and contained what it termed a harmful \u2018gender ideology\u2019. In light of this experience, I found Tamara\u2019s research on Moms for Liberty and whiteness very enlightening. I am really looking forward to her monograph concerning race and childhood literary cultures, an understudied but deeply important subject. Later in the conference, I was completely taken with Camila Gonzalez Simon\u2019s discussion of zine-making with young people in Chile. She has authored an incredible guide to making fanzines with beautiful illustrations; it was a delight to leaf through during the panel. I also loved seeing her slides on what children and teenagers themselves created during her workshops. Unsurprisingly (to me, at least), Camila\u2019s participants did not always feel bound to conventions concerning the content of their fanzines, and created wonderful texts about their favourite media or their political concerns. I hope Camila (or others) can continue important projects like this in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Lozana<\/strong>: I was only able to attend the conference for the day of my panel, Monday July 1st, so I didn\u2019t have a chance to attend many other sessions, but I enjoyed the collection session by Gerry Leonidas and Borna Izadpanah &#8211; Stories of adaptation and divergence: two scripts, one model of seeing &#8211; at the Department of Typography &amp; Graphic Communication, as well as the Ladybird books exhibition at the MERL. I also found the exchanges with other researchers during the interim pauses exciting and surprising as to how diverse the SHARP community is!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Nicole<\/strong>: Perhaps my favorite aspect of SHARP\u2019s conference is the sheer variety of fascinating, and incredibly different, panels that all find a home at SHARP. I attended panels that spanned several hundred years in time frame and ranged in topic from AI to the transatlantic slave trade, all of which were phenomenal. The far-ranging impact of the material book was clearly on display throughout the conference. Presentations by Marianne Marten and Gitte Balling, Xiang Ren, and Sara K\u00e4rrholm during the second \u201cDigital Platforms and Fan Fiction\u201d emphasized the contemporary evidence of this continuing material importance of the book. I am not an active social media user myself; nevertheless, I was engrossed by the sheer number of ways that the reading public is consuming and remaking the book\u2014whether by literally repackaging books with self-made covers, influencing sale trends through social media, or dictating the terms of a new genre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Ksenia<\/strong>: I really enjoyed the panel \u201cOld fakes in today\u2019s libraries\u201d (Wednesday, 3 July) as fakes studies was one of the frameworks I wanted to use in my research some time ago. At that time I was not aware of any works about fakes in books, and after this session I have a lot to think about in connection to my research. I found the session by Book History editors (Thursday, 4 July) very helpful \u2013 it helped me to make up my mind which journal I am going to send the article I am currently working on. I would also like to mention the collection sessions (I wish I could have attended all of them) and Asha Rogers\u2019 keynote \u2013 she is a great presenter. Though her research is outside my expertise and current activities, I am going to familiarise myself with her book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" id=\"reading\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Give us a reading recommendation!<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Saskia<\/strong>: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/press.uchicago.edu\/ucp\/books\/book\/distributed\/G\/bo23353310.html\">Gay Men at the Movies<\/a><\/em> by Scott McKinnon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Lozana: <\/strong>Lucie Kolb, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/transversal.at\/books\/study-not-critique\">Study, Not Critique<\/a>,&#8221; in Transversal Texts, 2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Nicole<\/strong>: Sherry Shenoda&#8217;s poetry collection <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sherryshenoda.com\/mummy-eaters\/\">Mummy Eaters<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Ksenia<\/strong>: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/book\/10.1007\/978-3-319-50708-8\">The New Russian Book: A Graphic Cultural History<\/a><\/em> by Birgitte Beck Pristed (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.&nbsp;They are presented below in interview format. 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