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Colleen Barrett

@colleenlovesbks.bsky.social

Champion of the obscure, Hobbit-like tendencies, Rare Books Librarian at UKL.

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Sarah Bull@sarahebull.bsky.social · 10h ago

#DH / computational humanities friends, do you have any recommendations for practical reading on publishing messy historical data? Background: I've been collecting data on obscenity trials in Britain from 1800-1900. At this point, I've collected data on more than 2k legal events. I have inputted +

Diane Dias De Fazio. MDes, MSHP, MSLIS, MA (soon: MBA)@archibrarian.bsky.social · 4d ago

#BookSky Grolier Club public virtual event! Centuries of the Black Press in America: Alvin Patrick, Frankie Hutton (The Early Black Press in America, 1827–1860), and Mark Whitaker, fm. editor of Newsweek and first African American to lead a national newsmagazine. www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-ex...

[Virtual] Exhibition Program | Centuries of the Black Press in America

With Alvin Patrick, Frankie Hutton, Mark Whitaker

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Finch Collins@finchinthestacks.bsky.social · 3w ago

The CFP for *Queer Bibliography: Taking Stock* is now open! Full cfp below and at bit.ly/QB2027CfP (Please feel free to circulate these graphics off Bluesky! They're sized for an IG story.)

call for proposals Queer Bibliography TAKING STOCK Manchester, UK and online 2-4 September 2027 details overleaf ❧ ❧ ❧call for proposals Taking Stock marks the fifth annual Queer Bibliography conference and is a chance to pause and reflect and to queerly attend to the many meanings of “stock” in bibliography. Where do we find ourselves and our work? How might we trace queer histories of queer bibliography? How can we imagine critical futures for bibliographical enquiry within and beyond its traditional academic locations? From the raw materials of books to the origins and shapes of personal, commercial, and institutional collections, how does "stock" participate in the production, articulation, and study of queer textuality and textual communities? What is queer about materiality, the ecology of books, and the processes of making and engaging with (collections of) physical textual objects? We invite participants to engage in stock-taking or to reflect on bibliographical stock, broadly defined. We welcome meta, theoretical, and historiographical work that takes stock of queer bibliography, and we welcome proposals that relate to “stock” in bibliography, book history, and reception studies. ❧ abstracts due 29 January ☙ full cfp: https://bit.ly/QB2027CfP
Sarah Pyke@sarahpyke.bsky.social · 4w ago

Extremely excited to share the CFP for the ✨fifth✨ annual #QueerBibliography conference! bit.ly/QB2027CfP When? 2-4 September 2027 Where? Manchester, UK & online Theme: TAKING STOCK Deadline for abstracts: 29 January 2027 Decisions: by 12 March 2027 Submit here: forms.gle/WGjXKA1d6gWm...

Queer Bibliography Taking Stock Manchester, UK and online 2-4 September 2027 Call for Proposals Since the inaugural 2023 conference, queer bibliography has grown from an interesting concept to a burgeoning field. Our 2027 theme, Taking Stock, marks the fifth annual conference and is a chance to pause and reflect on genealogies of the field, the present state of queer bibliographical enquiry, and our senses of the future. How might we trace queer histories of queer bibliography? How can we imagine critical futures for bibliographical enquiry within and beyond its traditional academic locations? Where do we find ourselves and our work? Stock also has meaning in bibliography. While “stock” originally referred to a tree trunk or plant stem, and figuratively to the source of a line of descent or even a human torso, it later began to connote an aggregate of goods—in the context of bookmaking, one might own a stock of paper or pasteboard. Towards the mid-nineteenth century, “paper stock” began to connote the raw material of paper itself. “Stock” might refer to the inventories of booksellers, the process of beginning and curating an institutional or personal collection, and the supply and material characteristics of paper. From the raw materials of books to the origins and shapes of personal, commercial, and institutional collections, how does "stock" participate in the production, articulation, and study of queer textuality and textual communities? What is queer about materiality, the ecology of books, and the processes of making and engaging with (collections of) physical textual objects? We invite participants to engage in stock-taking or reflect on bibliographical stock, broadly defined. We welcome meta, theoretical, and historiographical work that takes stock of queer bibliography, and we welcome proposals that relate to “stock” in bibliography, book history, and reception studies.
SHARP@sharpweb.org · 4mo ago

Our third and final keynote is taking place in 35 minutes at #SHARPIES26. Come hear Mark Lester and Mark Letteney talk about Ancient Book History, moderated by Anna Siebach-Larsen!