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• 30 nov 2018

  Call for papers - History

  "Book Commerce, Book Carnival

  "Studies in Book Culture" Review

  Book fairs, writers’ festivals, conventions and other literary gatherings are hubs of activity. From the foundation of the Frankfurt Book Fair in 1454, to the post-war growth of the festival format, to the proliferation of digital and live events in the twenty-first century, book fairs and festivals have shaped book cultures and publishing industries. They are sites of global and local commerce, where books, rights and ideas are traded. They are also carnivalesque, located outside the everyday. Fairs and festivals are celebrations of creativity, flashpoints for anxieties, and sites of bad behaviour. Inhibitions are lowered and people wear masks, power is exposed and sometimes mocked, and books come out to play.

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• 23 jui 2016

  Florence

  Call for papers - Information

  Building Audiences for the Book in an Age of Media Proliferation

  By the book 3

  "By the Book 3" brings together scholars from the field of publishing studies, alongside industry professionals, to examine key issues around the digital transformation of the book, as well as to discuss the developing field of publishing studies. If we examine global book production over the last 70 years, there is a clear discrepancy between the growth in population, the number of titles published, and the number of books sold and lent. This divergent trends in book production and consumption pose a set of pressing questions related to the publishing economy, marketing and skills.

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• 30 mar 2015

  Call for papers - Europe

  The collection as production line for children’s books: the role of archives

  Revue Strenæ

  Introduced in the nineteenth century by publishers to create customer loyalty in target audiences, the series brings together a number of books under one formal system designed to be easily identifiable. In its first function as a paratextual structure, the series helps to describe the text (and/or the image), to guide its interpretation and influence its critical reception. Over the years the series has become a longstanding fixture in the world of publishing and in cultural life. Thanks to the series, publishers have continued to expand their reach and their role in the creative process, either by commissioning productions, or reshaping a book while it is being developed, or by rearranging or adapting works by authors and/or illustrators that have been published elsewhere. 

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• 01 déc 2009

  Guyancourt

  Call for papers - History

  Culturhisto 2010 : économie et culture, XIXe-XXe siècles

  Cette journée d’étude vise à donner aux doctorants l’occasion d’étudier les liens tissés entre économie et culture, ceux-ci nous éclairant sur l’insertion du capitalisme dans l’histoire économique et sociale des industries culturelles. Ces dernières connaissent depuis la fin des années quatre-vingt d’importantes mutations. Elles sont aussi au cœur de débats qui mettent en cause la définition même de leurs produits (dérogent-ils, par nature, au principe du libre échange, sont-ils réductibles à leur seule dimension marchande…?). À l’heure des débats autour d’Hadopi, alors que de nouveaux usages remettent en cause les modèles juridiques et économiques anciens, il semble pertinent de remettre en perspective les conditions de production des biens culturels.

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• 30 nov 2008

  Sherbrooke

  Call for papers - Sociology

  La publication électronique en sciences humaines et sociales

  Premier numéro de Mémoires du livre

  Le lancement de la revue électronique Mémoires du livre est l’occasion, dans un mouvement réflexif, d’établir un état des lieux, tant rétrospectif que prospectif, sur la publication électronique en sciences humaines et sociales. Ce numéro thématique voudrait ainsi en dresser un bilan historique et un constat contemporain, et en examiner les pistes d'avenir.

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