Papers

Danielle took part in the third and final 'TransCanada' conference at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick, Canada. Her presentation considered why the study of readers and reading matters for the field of 'Canadian Literature' and drew upon some of the Canadian research data from 'Beyond the Book.'

Dr Anouk Lang gave a paper entitled, 'Middle of the road or divergent paths? Imagining the nation through Three Day Road' at the 'Middlebrow Cultures' conference, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.
The conference was part of the Middlebrow Network project which is funded by the AHRC and lead by Dr Faye Hammill who has a Birmingham connection: Faye undertook her PhD studies at U of Birmingham in the Dept of American & Canadian Studies.

Anouk Lang presented a paper at the annual conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP). Dr Lang's presentation was entitled, "Divergent Paths?' Postcolonialism, Book History and Three Day Road."

Danielle Fuller was an invited plenary speaker at a symposium organized by the German-Canadian Centre, University of Bonn. The symposium was convened by Katherine Verhagen and was entitled, 'Organic Material: the Many Threads of Canadian Book History.' In addition to delivering a presentation on the 'Beyond the Book' project, she was a member of a panel discussion which focussed upon 'The Changing Needs of the Canadian Market.' Keynote speakers and fellow panel members were Prof David Staines (U of Ottawa) and Prof George Elliott Clarke (U of Toronto).

DeNel Rehberg Sedo presented a paper at the conference of the Canadian Association for the Study of Book Cultures during the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, U of Ottawa. Her presentation was entitled, 'Cultural capital and community in contemporary city-wide reading programs,' which chimed well with this year's CASBC theme, “Book Networks and Cultural Capital: Space, Society & the Nation”