{"id":12909,"date":"2023-04-14T10:27:53","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T22:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/cfb\/?p=12909"},"modified":"2023-08-13T12:51:59","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T00:51:59","slug":"centre-for-the-book-2023-symposium-call-for-papers-1-september-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/cfb\/centre-for-the-book-2023-symposium-call-for-papers-1-september-deadline\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre for the Book 2023 Symposium Call for Papers, 1 September deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dall-E image depicting conference theme<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Each year, the Centre for the Book at the University of Otago organises a symposium with a theme designed to engage with ideas about the roles that books and print have played in shaping identity, indicating what\u2019s important, explain how to do (and not to do) things.<\/p>\n

The theme for the 2023 Centre of the Book Research Symposium is \u2018Books and Resistance\u2019.\u00a0 We often discuss books as repositories or shapers of culture, most often considering the ways such print is revered, studied or transmitted, without so often pausing to think about all the ways that print, frequently in more ephemeral forms, also objects, resists or reframes our perspectives.\u00a0 This year\u2019s symposium offers an opportunity to reflect on how texts create, embody, celebrate, or challenge aspects of cultures that may otherwise be marginalised or silent, deviant or devout, brilliantly (but dauntingly) original or factually false that all find greater voice through print.\u00a0 Resistance takes many forms, from graffiti to public manifestos and from handbills to social media posts.\u00a0 The presentations in this symposium will discuss a variety of genres from different periods, some attending to distribution, some to subversive modes of production, some to resistant readers.\u00a0 Why does print both enable resistance and provoke resistance?\u00a0 Are some forms of print better suited to resistance?\u00a0 Can choosing not to engage with print be a form of resistance?\u00a0 These and no doubt other questions will be the focus of the 2023 Centre for the Book Symposium.<\/p>\n

We hope you have something you wish to contribute to this topic, and that you will plan to join us for the public lecture on Thursday evening and the day of presentations on Friday, 16\u201317 November 2023<\/p>\n

In line with this brief context, abstracts are welcome that examine any aspect of how books, newspapers, and the written word in all its forms enact, depict, obstruct or otherwise engage with resistance.<\/p>\n

Topics might include, but are not limited to:<\/p>\n