Connecting the Colonies: Empires & Networks in the History of the Book

The Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Inc

Join us in Hobart for the 2017 conference of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand. This conference is being held in collaboration with the <A HREF="http://www.sharpweb.org" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MCE-HREF="http://www.sharpweb.org" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing</A>. An outline of the program is below. For further information please see the <A HREF="http://www.bsanz.org/conferences/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MCE-HREF="http://www.bsanz.org/conferences/" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">conference website</A>.Morning and afternoon teas will be provided. Delegates will need to make their own arrangements for lunch.The conference dinner will be held at Saffron Indian Restaurant on 23 November.  Wednesday 22 November 2017. 9.00am-5.00pmKeynote address: Rodney Thomson. Tasmania’s (and Australia’s) earliest booksRachael Bell. Staking a claim: New Zealand’s official histories of the Second World WarLiz Conor. Peripheral vision: recurring colonial imagery of Aboriginal Australians as framing devicesJoanna Cruickshank. ‘The constant demand for sermons’: print sermons and religious networks in Australia, 1788-1888Gillian Dooley. Matthew Flinders, Sir Joseph Banks and Robert Brown: the Library at Soho SquarePenny Edmonds. ‘The British Government is now awaking’: frontier violence, Aboriginal protection, and Backhouse’s early colonial distribution of the 1837 Report of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Aboriginal TribesSimon Farley. Notes from empire’s end: the diary of a Turkish soldierSandra Hudd. Writing for the folks back home: colonial missionary story-tellingAnnaliese Jacobs. The silence of Wellington Channel: contested archives and the search for HMS Erebus and Terror, 1850-1851Donald Kerr. ‘The charms that a savage life holds’: Sir George Grey’s frontier experiencesRuth Mollison. Morton Allport the AcclimatiserSydney J Shep. Personal geographies and global networks: William Colenso and the Victorian Republic of LettersHayley Webster. Circulating scientific literature: the development of the Museum Victoria library collection Thursday 23 November 2017. 9.00am-5.00pm, conference dinner 7.00pmEric Anderson. Cheap books, bad booksSamir de Angelo. The book object: the book used as a response to missionary authority by the Amerindians of the northwest AmazonHelen Bones. The ARCHivER project and the rise and fall of the Tasman writing worldDennis Bryans. English Monotype: providing services to the Empire and beyondJason Ensor. ‘But sometimes in the London smoke, You’ll smell the gum leaves burning’: the 20th century Australian book trade, the traditional memory archive, and digital technologiesJocelyn Hargrave. ‘Errors therein marked on the margin’: John Degotardi’s The art of printing and editorial practice in 19th-century AustraliaMark Houlahan. The Shakespearean Quarterly 1922-1924Cecilia Leong-Salobir. Cookbooks and the printing press in Britain and Colonial AsiaKevin Molloy &amp; Katie Flack. The Waifs and Strays of Sea Life: Melbourne printer Michael T Gason and the Voyage of the Tudor, 1857Kathryn Parsons. That bright little New Zealand annual The HuiaGeorgia Prince. Florence Nightingale and Sir George Grey: colleagues of empireJane Stafford. Mrs Muter and the construction of the lady travellerMerete Colding Smith. Australia and New Zealand in 19th-century British children’s books: the role of print in constructing colonial consciousnessRodney Swan. Matisse’s Jazz: the enigma of his textNicki Tarulevicz. Learning to fear: textual encounters with food safety in SingaporeEvija Trofimova. The twilight zone of Soviet books Friday 24 November 2017. 9.00am-4.30pmKeith Adkins. Theophilus Anglicanus and the fear of Tractarianism in Van Diemen’s LandSally Bloomfield. The long reach of a little bushranger book: Michael Howe, the last and worst of the bush rangers of Van Diemen’s Land, 1819Damian Cairns. For Church and College: discovering the library of the Canterbury AssociationVéronique Duché. Treasured possessions in Australian Rare Books collectionsMary Jane Edwards. Transnational connections: the Moodies, the Stricklands, and their Canadian, English, and South African publicationsElizabeth Freeman. 13th-century English Cistercian nunneries and their cartularies: manuscripts, technologies of power, and the inscription of women into a trans-national medieval religious institutionClare Gleeson. Owner bound volumes: a musical transmitter of cultureWallace Kirsop. Providing printed matter for multicultural Australia in the 19th centuryAmanda Laugesen. Dictionaries in the Australian colonies: a historyRobin Macdonald. ‘Bound in leather, rather than parchment, to last longer’: nuns as discerning readers in 17th-century QuebecAlicia Marchant. John Hardyng and Scotland: forged manuscripts and fake heritage in a 15th-century invasion planSarah Randles. ‘Many a treasure more’: Robert Bedford and the Kyancutta Magna Carta

Royal Society Room, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery

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