Book History

ALA's Cataloging sites and resources for rare books

Mainz, 23-24 Sept 2016

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz 1-6 August 2016

A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage became an open access publication beginning with its Spring 2016 30th anniversary issue.

Free online course from 18 july 2016 for 3 weeks

The Call for Papers for the first issue of the Journal is open until the 6th of May 2016 We invite all students and young graduates to submit abstracts of their papers. Our journal is established by young conservators - for young conservators. We hope that it will become a platform for exchange of thoughts, learning and development for emerging scientists - conservators and restorers of works of art, where by publishing their research papers they will step firmly into the professional world of conservation and restoration.

Book Binding History Paris 2 May - 6 June

This digitisation project provides access to vibrant source material covering six core themes from the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic experience. These themes are: 1.The French Monarchy and Royalism 2.Terror, the White Terror, and Counter-Revolution 3.Law and Order 4.Lyon and Paris in Revolution 5.Religion 6.Military Affairs

ACMRS (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies) invites session and paper proposals for its 23rd Annual Conference. We welcome papers that explore any topic related to the study and teaching of the Middle Ages and Renaissance and especially those that focus on the general theme of "Paradigm Shifts during the Global Middle Ages and Renaissance." DEADLINES: Proposals will be accepted on a rolling basis until midnight, MST on December 2, 2016. Responses will be given within a week of submission. Please submit an abstract of 250 words and a brief CV to ACMRSconference@asu.edu. Proposals must include audio/visual requirements and any other special requests; late requests may not be accommodated. Visit our web page at www.acmrs.org/conferences/annual-acmrs-conference for further details.

We welcome papers that offer new perspectives on well-known networks as well as those that uncover unusual or less well-known alliances, relationships and cultural constellations. Topics may include, but are certainly not limited to: ·Network theory as applied to literature - social, anthropological, scientific, cultural and political ·Representations of 'networked thinking' in literature ·Clinical networks in the field of medical humanities ·Mutual influence, reciprocity and support between groups or writers or cultural practitioners ·The cultural significance of friendships ·The politics of patronage ·Salon and coterie culture ·Epistolary networks ·Postcolonial networks ·Digital Humanities and the network ·Technologies, spaces and geographies that enable networks ·National and transnational networks Submission details: Proposals for 20-minute papers should include a 250-300 word abstract and short bio. Please send your proposal to literarynetworks2016@gmail.com Submission deadline: Friday 10th June 2016 Website: https://literarynetworks.wordpress.com/

Proposals should address the material aspects of late antique, medieval, or Renaissance manuscripts. Papers are twenty minutes in length and a full session normally consists of three papers. Submissions of papers may address an original topic or one of the session themes already proposed. Submissions of original session themes are welcome from those who wish to be organizers.

Compilation of resources pertaining to Historical Bibliography including: General subject resources, period and topic specific resources, databases for IDing elements, and relevant dissertations and articles.

Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences (RDJ) is a peer reviewed e-only open access journal, which is designed to comprehensively document and publish deposited data sets and to facilitate their online exploration. In this way it wants to contribute to transparency of research, accelerate dissemination and foster reuse.

In itself a contentious category, 'theoretical humanities' represents the productive nexus of work in the disciplinary fields of literary criticism and theory, philosophy, and cultural studies. The journal is dedicated to the refreshing of intellectual coordinates, and to the challenging and vivifying process of re-thinking.

Online International Journal of Arts and Humanities is a double blind peer-review, multidisciplinary, international, open access journal that provides a RAPID avenue to publish applied researches in the various fields of arts and humanities that can result in the development of new procedures that can lead to improvement in these areas.