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Conference "Paper Ecologies"

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Photo of the conference participants
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Luisa Calè (Birkbeck), Vicky Mills (Birkbeck) and Katharina Boehm jointly organized the third in a series of conferences exploring new approaches to the history of the book. This year’s conference was entitled Paper Ecologies: Histories, Materialities, Experiments and explored and explored the intertwined materialities of paper and the page across time, from the medieval period to the digital present. Papers and discussions revolved around questions such as the following: How can we reinsert page and paper into the systems of labour, resources, and networks they sustain and reflect? How have changes and innovations in paper production influenced how the page is conceptualized and used? And what can we learn from the life cycle of paper and pages and their journeys through different hands and contexts – as the material ground on which writers and artists work; annotated by readers; extra-illustrated or cut up and reassembled; discarded, reused, and transformed into new paper objects – about literature’s participation in evolving (media) ecologies? We were joined by a wonderful group of speakers including Sarah Haggerty (University of Cambridge), Richard Menke (University of Georgia), James Mussell (University of Leeds), Deven Parker (Glasgow), Gill Partington (Institute of English, London) Orietta da Rold (University of Cambridge), Matthew Rubery (Queen Mary, University of London), and Sean Silver (Rutgers).

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