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CASBC 2012 Program
Past
and Present: The Uncertain World of Books
Eighth Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for the
Study of Book Culture
Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences
Wilfrid Laurier University & University of Waterloo
May 29 - 30, 2012
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Tuesday, 29 May |
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9:30 - 10:30 a.m. |
Registration and Welcome
Location to be confirmed
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10:30 - 12:00 p.m. |
The Intersection of
Journalism and Books (joint session CHA-BSC-CASBC)
Location: Mathematics & Computer Science Building
- Room 4059
University of Waterloo
Chair: Isabelle Robitaille, Bibliothèque et
archives nationales du Québec
Elizabeth Dickens (Briercrest College)
“Journalism embalmed in a book": Reviewing the
Journalist as Critic
Dominique Marquis (Université du Québec à
Montréal)
«Procurer à mes lecteurs quelques heures de délassement»
: Les Recueils, les Notes de voyage et le roman de
Jules-Paul Tardivel
John Shoesmith (University of Toronto) Even
Bestsellers Get the News: The judicious Use of
Journalistic Techniques by Arthur Hailey in Creating his
Bestsellers
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12:00 -2:00 p.m. |
Lunch on your own
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2:00 - 4:00 p.m. |
Copyright, Censorship, and the Uncertain World of Books
Location: J.R. Coutts Engineering Lecture Hall -
Room 305 South Campus, University of Waterloo
Chair: Myra J. Tawfik
(University of Windsor)
Marie-Claude Felton (Harvard University)
Les arrêts de 1777, la propriété littéraire et
l’essor de l’édition autonome
Stephanie Butler (Murdoch University)
The Censorship of Contraceptive Information in fin
de siècle Britain
Caitlin Bakker (Wilfrid Laurier University)
From the Stationers’ Guild to Cyberspace: Copyright
and the Concept of Authorship in the Digital Age
Comment: Jane A. McLeod (Brock University)
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4:00 - 4:30 p.m. |
Break |
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4:30 - 6:00 p.m. |
Keynote
address (joint session BSC-CASBC)
Location:
J.R. Coutts Engineering Lecture Hall - Room 307 South
Campus, University of Waterloo
Chair: Janet Friskney
(York University)
Joan Judge
(York University)
Textual and Material Intersections in the Chinese
Periodical Press: Methodological Reflections, Digital
Innovations
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Wednesday, 30
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9:00 - 10:20 a.m. |
Illustrated Books
Location: J.R. Coutts Engineering Lecture Hall -
Room 305
South Campus, University of Waterloo
Chair: Scott McLaren (York University)
Jessica Duffin Wolfe (University of Toronto)
Drawing Palestine from London, 1634-1917: The Battle for
a Distant Landscape in Pre-Balfour Illustrated Travel
Books
Gail Edwards (Douglas College)
Envisioning the Other: Images of Aboriginality in
Canadian Children’s Illustrated Books
Lucía Cedeira Serantes (University of Western
Ontario)
Comic books that feel like literary works: Young adult
readers embrace, adapt and resist the concept of the
graphic novel
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10:20 - 10:40 a.m. |
Break |
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10:40 - 12:00 p.m. |
Women Writers and Readers
Location: J.R. Coutts Engineering Lecture
Hall - Room 305
South Campus, University of Waterloo
Chair: Kathryn Carter (Wilfrid Laurier
University)
Leah Knight (Brock University)
Uncertainty in the History of Reading: A Case Study of
Method
Cecily Devereux (University of Alberta)
“This little Work”: The Uncertain World of
Pre-Confederation Poetry Monographs by Women in Canada
Comment: Isabelle Lehuu (Université du Québec à
Montréal)
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12:00 - 1:30 p.m. |
AGM and Lunch
Location: J.R. Coutts Engineering Lecture Hall -
Room 305
South Campus, University of Waterloo
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1:45 -
3:30 p.m. |
The
Uncertain World of Books in a Global and Digital Context
Location: J.R. Coutts Engineering Lecture Hall
- Room 305
South Campus, University of Waterloo
Chair: to be announced
Susan Brown (University
of Guelph) and the INKE Research Team
The Uncertain Edition: Building Books for the Future
Jen Pecoskie (Wayne State University) and
Nadine Desrochers (University of Western Ontario)
Over, inside, and out: Using paratext to explore the
book as a portal for information exchange
Lina Shoumarova (Carleton University)
Publishing Literary Translations in Canada in the Age of
Multiculturalism
Comment: The Audience / Le public
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