Our final session, the Publisher's Roundtable, is starting in ten minutes at #SHARPIES26!
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Join us for our final social event at the #SHARPIES26, an all-languages book recommendation event led by @altibel.bsky.social, starting in 15 minutes!
In case you missed this, the recording will be available until the end of 2026 - everything you wanted to know about the SHARP Book Prize 👇🏼
SHARP@sharpweb.org · 4w agoNext up at #SHARPIES26: @kinohi.bsky.social in conversation with @shaftowheed.bsky.social! Join us in about ten minutes!
Love your zine, @louisapreston.bsky.social !
Louisa Preston@louisapreston.bsky.social · 4w agoA #sharpies26 highlight was Beth Driscoll’s keynote, choosing my reader avatar - and trying to visualise it very sketchily (eh-hem). Another delight was making my zine program which was handily supplied by SHARP, which I then hand bound into my little note-sketch book for the conference!
Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book series includes books on the history of print culture, authorship, reading, writing, printing, and publishing Browse the virtual #SHARPIES26 MNG exhibition here buff.ly/gq46p9e @sharpweb.org @umasspress.bsky.social
Mark Lester encouraging us to look in both directions from our normal period (past/future) for comparisons/inspiration is right on the money. This is what I love about book history and SHARP, you hear/read research on a completely different area/period, and it totally changes your work #SHARPIES26
Next up at #SHARPIES26: @kinohi.bsky.social in conversation with @shaftowheed.bsky.social! Join us in about ten minutes!
I’m laughing listening to Priyasha Mukhopadhyay talk about her sources’ letters writing about how many letters and forms they have to write to get even small things done. I work in a library in a university. This is deeply relatable. #SHARPIES26
SHARP@sharpweb.org · 4w agoJoin us at the #SHARPIES26 in half an hour for an interview with Adrian Johns and Priyasha Mukhopadhyay, chaired by Hwisang Cho, on Technologies of Reading!
Join us at the #SHARPIES26 in half an hour for an interview with Adrian Johns and Priyasha Mukhopadhyay, chaired by Hwisang Cho, on Technologies of Reading!
🌍📚What promises to be a really exciting conversation on "The World and the Book" is coming up next at #SHARPIES26 (in just over half an hour). Featuring Mary C. Fuller, Claire Lavarreda, @guillopupo.bsky.social, and @drxinyiwen.bsky.social, moderated by Kirsti Salmi-Niklander.
Our #SHARPIES26 panel featuring Book History editor Yuri Cowan and Lingua Franca editor @libripotens.bsky.social will begin in 5 minutes!
Mark Lester just referenced Neal Stephenson’s “Snow Crash” and I am so here for it. #SHARPIES26
SHARP@sharpweb.org · 4w agoOur 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!
A landmark series in long 18th-century studies & the Romantic era, Transits publishes volumes that are timely, transformative, & global in their engagement with arts, literature, culture& history Browse the virtual #SHARPIES26 MNG exhibition buff.ly/Uss2pUl @sharpweb.org @bucknellupress.bsky.social
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!
Starting in just a few minutes at #SHARPIES26: @gbarnhisel.bsky.social interviewing @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and @manshel.bsky.social!
An excellent panel. @ruthahnert.bsky.social’s visual mapping was particularly inspiring for my own research. Thank you! #SHARPIES26 @sharpweb.org
SHARP@sharpweb.org · 4w agoNext up at #SHARPIES26: a conversation on Early Modern Printing and Publishing with @ruthahnert.bsky.social, @sebastianahnert.bsky.social, Andreas Patrick Bassett, Stephanie A. Leitch, and Geoffrey Turnovsky. Chaired by @andiesilva.bsky.social! Join us in less than half an hour!
Such a diverse array of time periods, geographies, and genres led to a very productive conversation. This has been so much fun to attend and participate in! #SHARPIES26
SHARP@sharpweb.org · 4w agoNext up at #SHARPIES26: A Conversation on Youth Reading with Titas Bose, Natalie Hsieh, and Elizabeth Hoiem, chaired by @lmaruca.bsky.social!
Next up at #SHARPIES26: A Conversation on Youth Reading with Titas Bose, Natalie Hsieh, and Elizabeth Hoiem, chaired by @lmaruca.bsky.social!
Next up at #SHARPIES26: a conversation on Early Modern Printing and Publishing with @ruthahnert.bsky.social, @sebastianahnert.bsky.social, Andreas Patrick Bassett, Stephanie A. Leitch, and Geoffrey Turnovsky. Chaired by @andiesilva.bsky.social! Join us in less than half an hour!
This morning at #SHARPIES2026, Aakriti Mandhwani talked about her research on Everyday readers in post-independence India. Fabulous research which luckily is available at our @ubleiden.bsky.social #readers #BookHistory www.umasspress.com/978162534790...
Everyday Reading
Finalist for the 2025 SHARP Book History Book Prize During the two difficult decades immediately following the 1947 Indian Independence, a new, commercially ...
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For those of you eagerly awaiting our next session at #SHARPIES26, the early-career mentoring social event starts in an hour. If you haven't pre-registered yet, you can still do so in the lobby!
Unveiling my new #bookhistory tat ahead of speaking at the #sharpies tomorrow. #BH4ever @sharpweb.org
Wow! Next year’s @sharpweb.org conference will be in Pretoria, South Africa in early July 2027! 🤩 #SHARPIES26
Collected things in public narratives are either Troves (valuable, glistening wows) or Dusty, moldy, messy hoards (pejorative) Ruthie Block had interesting things to say about formulating “accumulations.” I think more consideration of framing & terminologies like this would be fruitful. #SHARPIES26
Came late to the current #SHARPIES26 session, but I'm so happy to see all the SHARP people, even on screens!!
The Annual General Meeting is starting in just a few minutes! Hope to see many SHARPists, new and old!
Great opportunity to listen in on insights from @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social 👇
SHARP@sharpweb.org · last mo.Are you interested in contemporary publishing, texts, and readers? Then you'll love the SHARPIES festival, which kicks off in just two weeks! Registration is still open and free for SHARP members. SHARP membership is 55-100USD. events.zoom.us/ev/Ap9iEZwmC...
What a great turn out and a great event (could only have been improved with an on screen appearance of the cat!)
Matthew Kirschenbaum@mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 4w agoThanks to everyone who came out for this! I’ve already sent to @eve.gd , but here’s a behind the scenes look at my prep.
A nice thread between the two initial #SHARPIES26 talks thus far is the inability to save everything (noted by @eve.gd) and the gathering, scattering, and losses of Black books collected by Mayme Clayton (noted by Ruthie Block). Collecting, gathering, appraising are all complicated.