Luisa Calè (Birkbeck), Vicky Mills (Birkbeck) and Katharina Boehm jointly organized the conference “Books In and Out of Time: Media, History, and Print Culture, 1700-1900”, which was held in Passau from 12-15 July 2023. Speakers from the US, UK and Germany discussed the book as a key medium of historical cognition that provided writers and readers with flexible ways of measuring, (re)ordering, and conceptualizing their relationship to different pasts and anticipated futures. Many papers asked how eighteenth- and nineteenth-century authors harnessed new technologies of reproduction, as well the book's capacity to engage with and host multiple media, in order to think about the different temporalities manifested by the material cultures of the book. Here’s the conference Programme.