Shout out to @sharpweb.org and the SHARP email list. I sent out a question a couple hours ago, and I have already received several useful responses. The #BookHistory community is always awesome, and I'm so grateful.
SHARP-L is open to everyone but it is supported by @sharpweb.org, so if you are on the list and you, like me, appreciated its utility and respectful posting (thank you, moderators!!), becoming a SHARP member is a great way to show your appreciation!
Yes. Yes, I am.
There are so many reasons to be a @sharpweb.org member and being able to attend this is one of them! Free for members!! Learn more about joining at sharpweb.org/membership/
👀 Just a reminder that all events (except for the three social events) will be recorded and available to registrants through the end of 2026.
Featuring @eve.gd and @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social (and many others not on bsky!)
A flyer for three events: An interview of Martin Paul Eve by Matthew Kirschenbaum about “Digital-Textual Histories” on Tuesday, July 7 @ 1pm UTC A conversation about Early Modern Writing and Publishing chaired by Andie Silva and featuring Ruth Ahnert, Sebastian E. Ahnert, Andreas Patrick Bassett, Stephanie A. Leitch, and Geoffrey Turnovsky on Wednesday, July 8 at 3pm UTC; And a joint keynote address by Mark Lester and Mark Letteney on “Ancient Book History: What We Can Learn by Studying Material Transmission and Transformation in the Ancient Mediterranean" on Wednesday, July 8 @ 7:30pm UTC
Are you looking for an online global book history festival that features work on ancient through contemporary textual cultures? Look no further! Registration is open now!
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The world is ugh, but your book history community is waiting for you! Come join us online this summer for our first ever global book history festival!
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Welcome @jochargrave.bsky.social !!!
This event is on July 9th, but all 21 events run from the 7th to the 9th. Registration is now open, but all events are free for SHARP members. Depending on your employment status and location, membership is between $55 and $100USD. Join us!
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Book Club and Author Talk Flyer. thursday, July 9 @ 6am UTC, with Carla de Guzman, author of If the Dress Fits, Moderated by Claire Parnell
💗One of the highlights of the SHARPIES program is a book club and author talk, featuring romance author @carlakdeguzman.bsky.social, author of If the Dress Fits.
After 45 minutes of discussion, de Guzman will join the group for a question and answer session moderated by @claireparnell.bsky.social!
We are so happy to have you! 😊
And thank you to outgoing Editor-in-Chief @andiesilva.bsky.social, who has done a tremendous job over the past six years! 🙏
🌟 So thrilled to announce that @jochargrave.bsky.social is the incoming @sharpnews.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief! Help us welcome her into the role!
The world is ugh, but your book history community is waiting for you! Come join us online this summer for our first ever global book history festival!
events.zoom.us/ev/Ap9iEZwmC...
Registration is now open! And all events are free for SHARP members. Depending on your employment status and location, membership is between $55 and $100USD.
events.zoom.us/ev/Ap9iEZwmC...
Flyer for three SHARPIES events: Ruthie Block's "'Stacker/Finder/Keeper'": Mayme Clayton and the Itinerant Life of Black Books" on Tuesday, July 7 @ 2:30 UTC, Beth Driscoll's "What Contemporary Readers Do: A Spoken Word Interactive Video Game Experience" on Wednesday, July 8 @ 6:30am UTC, and Mark Lester & Mark Letteney's "Ancient Book History: What Can We Learn by Studying Material Transmission and Transformation in the Ancient Mediterranean?" Wednesday, July 8 @ 7:30pm UTC
One of our SHARPIES highlights is three keynote events, featuring emerging and established scholars who, together, embody our inclusive approach to book history in their diversity of objects, geographical and historical focus, and methods. @bethdriscoll.bsky.social
👀 Wow! We have over 100 registrants in our first week of registration! Take a look at what's going on over at the SHARPIES website and get in touch if you have any questions about how to join us in July!
sharpweb.org/conferences/...
Just a reminder that proposals for “Modernism in Ephemeral Print,” an MLA 2027 panel co-sponsored by @moderniststudies.bsky.social and @sharpweb.org, are due by Friday!
SHARP 💚 BSA
Registration for the SHARPIES—our totally online Book History Festival—is now open and free for SHARP members! 📚😀 If you're not a member, it's easy to join (membership is between $55 and $100). The festival will take place July 7th-9th with events across time zones.
events.zoom.us/ev/Ap9iEZwmC...
Deadline is March 13, 3026.
@sharpnews.bsky.social @sharpweb.org
These fellowships are such an important part of SHARP's mission. See what they do to support the work of emerging book historians!📚💚
What could be better than SHARP? SHARP + MSA! Check out this CFP on Modernism in Ephemeral Print! 💚
We're so thrilled to be able to support this symposium through one our lightning grants! Go global book history!📚🌏
. . . and, Pedro Toniazzo Terres for his project “A Thistle in the Tropics: The Barsa Encyclopedia and the Editorial Market during the Brazilian Military Dictatorship (1964–1975)”
Congratulations to all of the awardees!
To learn more about the prizes, visit us at sharpweb.org/grants-prizes/ (5/5)
Anushmita Mohanty for her project “The Role of Digital Piracy in Shaping Reading Practices”; Aderivaldo Ramos de Santana for his project investigating the maritime circulation of books and printed matter in the nineteenth-century Atlantic (4/5)
The recipients of the inaugural Archie L. Dick Awards are:
Rajarshi Das for his work on Santali knowledge systems and their place in book history; Doseline Kiguru for her work tracing the history of African literary prizes and their influence on the continent’s literary landscape (3/5)
