{"id":1665,"date":"2014-03-27T13:54:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T13:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/scitent.com\/2014\/03\/27\/cfp-creativity-and-commerce-in-the-age-of-print-552014-7262014\/"},"modified":"2014-10-14T14:47:25","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T14:47:25","slug":"cfp-creativity-and-commerce-in-the-age-of-print-552014-7262014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/2014\/03\/27\/cfp-creativity-and-commerce-in-the-age-of-print-552014-7262014\/","title":{"rendered":"CFP: Creativity and Commerce in the Age of Print (5\/5\/2014; 7\/26\/2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/--SMwvCVpQRc\/UzQtNZEKRqI\/AAAAAAAACUA\/lLxsy6nx44g\/s1600\/url.jpg\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/--SMwvCVpQRc\/UzQtNZEKRqI\/AAAAAAAACUA\/lLxsy6nx44g\/s1600\/url.jpg\" height=\"155\" width=\"200\" \/><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">\u201cCreativity and Commerce in the Age of Print\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Centre for the History of the Book <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">University of Edinburgh<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">July 26, 2014<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Deadline: May 5, 2014<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Hosted by the Centre for the History of the Book at the University of Edinburgh, this interdisciplinary conference will explore the sometimes-fraught connections between the \u2018art\u2019 and \u2018trade\u2019 of books from the Western invention of printing to today. Are the interests of authors and publishers always opposed, or can they lead to productive forms of collaboration? Does work undertaken for the marketplace necessarily compromise its moral and cultural standing? How does literature become property, and how has authorship evolved between the starving writer of \u2018Grub Street\u2019 and the modern book festival circuit? Can the requirements of the printing and bookselling industries constitute a form of de-facto censorship, determining the types of work that are published and circulated?<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">The organizers are currently seeking papers from postgraduate and early career researchers interested in questions such as these, with potential topics including (but not limited to): <\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Authorship and other creative professions<\/li>\n<li>The printing and bookselling industries<\/li>\n<li>Author-publishers relationships<\/li>\n<li>Dissemination networks<\/li>\n<li>Subscription and patronage<\/li>\n<li>Book advertising, illustration<\/li>\n<li>Serial publication<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Tie-ins\u2019, merchandise, and material culture<\/li>\n<li>Libraries and book collecting<\/li>\n<li>Commerce and censorship<\/li>\n<li>Originality, copyright, and intellectual property<\/li>\n<li>Book piracy and its national boundaries<\/li>\n<li>Creative work and gender<\/li>\n<li>The impact of new technologies for production and dissemination<\/li>\n<li>The \u2018rise\u2019 or \u2018death\u2019 of print.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">Proposals in all relevant subject areas and historical periods post-1450 are welcome. Please send a 200-word abstract to N.Simonova@ed.ac.uk by May 5, 2014. Limited travel bursaries may be available; indicate if you would require one to attend. The conference will take place in Edinburgh on July 26, 2014, with registration opening in June.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCreativity and Commerce in the Age of Print\u201d Centre for the History of the Book University of Edinburgh July 26, 2014 Deadline: May 5, 2014 Hosted by the Centre for the History of the Book at the University of Edinburgh, this interdisciplinary conference will explore the sometimes-fraught connections between the \u2018art\u2019 and \u2018trade\u2019 of books [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[498],"tags":[896,506,613],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}