Bibliographical Society of Canada

2010 Conference: The Materiality of Texts

Conference Program

Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Art Complex (EV)
1515 Ste Catherine St. W.

Henry Hall Building (H)
1455 Bouulevard de Maisonneuve W.

Vanier Library (Loyola Campus)
7141 Sherbrooke St. W.

Monday 31 May

8:00—9:00     Welcome, breakfast for BSC members
EV 1-615

9:00—10:15     Joint Session with ACCUTE and CASBC
EV 1-615

        Chair: Eli MacLaren

• Matthew Kennedy, “A Textual & Production History of Michael Ondaatje’s The Collected Works of Billy the Kid”
• Aaron Mauro, “Unanswered Sphinxes: Tragedy, Tradition, and Harlem Renaissance Print Culture in James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-colored Man”
• Dean Irvine, “James's Skirt] Shirt; or, Materialities and Mediations of The Double Hook”

10:45—12:30     Joint Session with CASBC
EV 3-635

        Chair: Janet Friskney

• Gary Kelly, “Howie’s Scots Worthies: Toward a Bibliosocial History of a ‘People’s Book’”
• Lise Jaillant, “A Masterpiece Ripped From Oblivion: Rediscovered Manuscripts and the Memory of the Holocaust in Contemporary France”
• Scott McLaren, “Methodist Periodicals and the Construction of Transnational Religious Identities in North America, 1818—1833”

14:00—15:30     Joint Session with CASBC
EV 3-635

        Chair: Isabelle Lehuu

• Anne-Sophie Fournier-Plamondon, “Les imprimeurs et les libraires à l’Époque moderne: le cas d’Antoine Godeau (1605–1672)”
• Myra Tawfik, University of Windsor, “The Law of the Book and The Diffusion of Useful Knowledge in 19th c. Lower Canada”
• Bertrand Legendre, “Les débuts de l’édition de poche en France : entre l’industrie et le social (1953–1970)”

16:00—17:30     Keynote Address with CASBC
EV 1-615

        Introduction: Leslie Howsam

• Claude la Charité, "Rabelais éditeur"

17:30—18:30     Reception with CASBC
EV 11-725

Tuesday 1 June

8:30—10:30     Joint Session with AQÉI
EV 6-735

        Chair: Paul Aubin

     “Ouvriers de l’ombre: trajectoires méconnues de l’histoire du livre au Québec”

• Josée Vincent
• Frédéric Brisson
• Marcel Lajeunesse
• Éric Leroux

11:00—12:30     BSC Session
EV 6-735

        Chair: Pat Kennedy

• Sarah Mead Willis, “Text and Metatext: The Library Catalogue as Cultural Process”
• Chris Hackett and Robert Cole, “Twitter Me This: Bibliographic Description and Research Culture in a 140-Character Information Universe”
• Sharon Farnel, “We Want It All and We Want It Now: Pressures on Bibliographic Description in a ‘Digital’ World”

12:30—14:00     AGM (lunch included for all BSC members)
H 763-00

14:00—16:00      BSC Session
EV 6-735

        Chair: Jillian Thom

• Pat Kennedy, “Generations: A Genealogical Framework for Identifying and Assessing the Myriad Manifestations of Government Documents”
• Kirsten MacLeod, “Material Form as Cultural Revolt in the Bibelot Boom of the 1890s”
• Gwen Davies, “Sophia Almon Hensley: Out of the Silence (1900)”
• Dave Gaertner, “A Glossy Finish: Glossaries in the Editions of Louise Bernice Halfe’s Blue Marrow”

16:15—17:15     BSC Session
EV 6-735

        Chair: David McKnight

• Isabelle Robitaille, “An 1870s McGill University Library Bequest: The Frederick Griffin Collection”
• Jillian Tomm, “Confronting the Relationship between Readers and ‘Embodied’ Texts through the Private Library: The Case of the Raymond Klibansky Collection”

18:00—20:00      Reception for HBiC
Vanier Library