book:logic 2014
University of Newcastle, Australia
April 26, 2014

Keynote speakers:

• Thomas August (Associate Professor of English, New York University, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow)
• Molly O’Hagan Hardy (Digital Humanities Curator, American Antiquarian Society, American Council of Learned Societies Fellow)

Hosted by Rosalind Smith and Patricia Pender of the University of Newcastle.

Do conventional and digital humanities scholarship grapple with the materiality of texts in different ways? What challenges and possibilities do print and electronic environments pose for the presentation, editing and analysis of literary texts?

We welcome proposals for 20 minute papers or panels on the symposium theme, “Literary Histories, Material Cultures, Digital Futures” or any topic associated with book:logic symposia in the past.

Please send abstracts and a short bio to wendy.alexander@newcastle.edu.au by February 23, 2013. As in the past, the event itself is free but numbers are limited. To avoid disappointment please register early with Wendy at the above address.

The symposium this year falls in the post-Easter mid-semester break, and also the ANZAC Day long weekend. We hope that this will facilitate rather than prohibit travel to Newcastle, and apologise if the date presents a conflict with prior commitments. The city itself is well worth a weekend (or even long weekend) visit and the symposium hotel is opposite Newcastle beach. A range of accommodation options will be available and the symposium will be followed by a dinner locally.

Please do not hesitate to contact Rosalind Smith and Patricia Pender if you have any questions.