Calls for Applications, Submissions, & Proposals... & More
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Call for Events Proposals & The Distributed Conference Model – Deadline August 15, 2021
The Events Committee invites you to submit a proposal for an event! The BSA hosts public programs and collaborates with related organizations in accordance with our mission to foster the study of books and other textual artifacts in traditional and emerging formats.
Our events strive to center diverse perspectives covering wide-ranging topics as outlined in our Equity Action Plan. Through our distributed conference model, BSA reduces its carbon footprint and meets you where you are by lowering barriers to participation. We have hosted bibliographical events both online and in-person at various locations throughout North America and, when possible, elsewhere in the world. Such events can include but are not limited to:
- lectures,
- panel presentations,
- hands-on workshops,
- conference sessions,
- and receptions following events that are bibliographical in nature.
We strive to make our events free for attendees and open to all. In all BSA events, the material text – that is, handwritten, printed, or other textual artifacts, broadly conceived – as historical evidence, and/or the theory and practice of descriptive, historical, and/or critical bibliography, should be a central concern to participants and organizers.
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The New Scholars Program – Deadline Sept. 3, 2021
The Bibliographical Society of America’s New Scholars Program promotes the work of scholars new to bibliography, broadly defined to include the creation, production, publication, distribution, reception, transmission, and subsequent history of all textual artifacts. This includes manuscript, print, and digital media, from clay and stone to laptops and iPads.
The New Scholars Award is $1,000, with a $500 travel stipend. Three New Scholars awards are made each year, engaging winners in a two-pronged program.
- Each presents a fifteen-minute talk on their current, unpublished bibliographical research during the program preceding the Society’s Annual Meeting each January.
- Expanded versions of New Scholars’ papers are submitted to the editor of The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America (PBSA) for publication, subject to peer review.
The committee strongly encourages applications from those who have not previously published, lectured, or taught on bibliographical subjects. Bibliographical scholarship pursuing new methods and new approaches, including applications from candidates applying bibliographical theory and principles to diverse materials and media, is welcome. Guided by the Society’s Equity Action Plan, the committee also welcomes submissions that embrace diverse, multicultural perspectives.
For more details on the New Scholars program including eligibility and application information, please visit the BSA website and watch the 2020 information session recording on YouTube.
Related Event:
A question and answer session with Committee Chair Barbara Heritage and Vice Chair Cynthia Gibson will be held on June 22, 2021 at 2pm Eastern. Registration required.
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The Fellowship Program – Deadline October 1, 2021
In keeping with the central value the Society places on bibliography as a critical framework, the BSA funds a number of fellowships to promote inquiry and research in books and other textual artifacts in both traditional and emerging formats.
Bibliographical projects may range chronologically from the study of clay tablets and papyrus rolls to contemporary literary texts and born-digital materials. Topics relating to books and manuscripts in any field and of any period are eligible for consideration as long as they include analysis of the physical object – that is, the handwritten, printed, or other textual artifact – as historical evidence.
We will be spotlighting the various Fellowships here in our newsletter throughout the summer. In the meantime, follow the link below to our website for details!
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The Justin G. Schiller Prize – Deadline October 15, 2021
Endowed by Justin G. Schiller, a dealer in antiquarian children’s books and past member of the BSA Council, the Schiller Prize for Bibliographical Work on Pre-20th-Century Children’s Books is intended to encourage scholarship in the bibliography of historical children’s books. It brings a cash award of $3,000 and a year’s membership in the Society.
The next Schiller Prize will be awarded at the Society’s 2022 Annual Meeting. Works put into nomination, which must be in English, may concentrate on any children’s book printed before the year 1901 in any country or any language. Submissions should involve research into bibliography and printing history broadly conceived and should focus on the physical book as historical evidence for studying topics such as the history of book production, publication, distribution, collecting, or reading. Studies of the printing, publishing, and allied trades, as these relate to children’s books, are also welcome.
Eligible scholarship may take the form of a published book or article, a master’s thesis or doctoral dissertation that has been defended and approved, or research results distributed in another manner, such as on a website or a CD-ROM. Eligible scholarship must have been published, approved, or posted between 1 January 2019 and 1 October 2021.
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The Brownies: Their Book by Palmer Cox. Eau Claire, Wis.: E.M. Hale and Co., 1915. John MacKay Shaw Childhood in Poetry Collection; Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida.
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Reminder: Dollar-for-Dollar Match on Gifts to the Annual Fund
We need your participation to meet our goal of $21,000 in '21. This is a dollar-for-dollar match on every donation made through December 31, 2021, doubling the impact of every gift.
Please make your contribution online today. Gifts of all sizes help us reach our goal, funding all of the important programs and initiatives detailed in this newsletter.
Your contributions uplift our bibliographical community through BSA's commitment to engaging and intellectually challenging programs for all.
Thank you for doing your part to help us match $21,000 in '21.
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Two dollars. No. 37901. Philadelphia: Printed by Hall and Sellers. 1776. From the Thomas Addis Emmet collection, New York Public Library Digital Collections.
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Summer 2021 Events
June 20, 2021: New Scholars Program Q&A
Prospective applicants are invited to attend to ask New Scholars Selection Committee Chair Barbara Heritage and Vice Chair Cynthia Gibson questions about the program.
For more details on the New Scholars program including eligibility and application information, please visit the New Scholars page on our website and watch the 2020 information session recording on YouTube.
June 26, 2021: International Kelmscott Press Day
Organized by the William Morris Society, the 125th anniversary of the publication of the Kelmscott edition of The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Four years in the making, with illustrations by the Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones, and designed by Morris in every detail, the Kelmscott Chaucer, as it is commonly known, is universally considered one of the most beautiful books ever printed. Kelmscott Press Day's focus, however, will extend beyond it to encompass the whole of William Morris’s “typographical adventure,” which exerted great influence on the private press movement and the modern book. Details on the various events held by partner institutions on the Morris Society website.
July 1-August 12, 2021: 500 Years of the Mexican Book
On the occasion of the anniversary of the so-called “conquest” of Mexico, this series of presentations addresses the relationship between bibliography, the history of the New Hispanic book, and the production of Indigenous-language books in Mexico. Details & registration information here.
Organized by Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Chicago Campus, in collaboration with the Bibliographical Society of America.
Co-hosted and co-sponsored by the Center for Renaissance Studies and the D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies at the Newberry Library.
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Member News & Announcements
Members are the heart of the BSA. Join us in celebrating their accomplishments and support them at these upcoming bibliographical events. Events listed by date, soonest first.
BSA Members: Please share your accomplishments with us! We are delighted to publicize our members' activities and publications in our newsletters. Reply to this email to share your good news in our next newsletter.
- Today is the deadline to apply for CalRBS Courses! BSA members teaching this summer include Susan M. Allen & William P. Barlow, Jr. (Donors & Libraries), Gerald Cloud (Descriptive Bibliography), Melissa Conway (Scientific & Secular Manuscripts with Cynthia White), Devin Fitzgerald (Global Histories of the Book), Craig Kallendorf & Daniel J. Slive (The Renaissance Book, 1400-1650), Robert Montoya (Book History & Librarianship through Post- and De-Colonial Lenses), and Sarah Werner (Feminist Bibliography).
- Devin Fitzgerald will provide English interpretation for UCLA's series on The History of the Chinese Book, taught in Chinese by Dr. Li Kaisheng of the Tianyi Ge (China's oldest continually operating library). Online June 11, 18, and 25. Register here.
- J.P. Ascher successfully defended his dissertation "Reading for Enlightenment in the Beginning of Philosophical Transactions", advised by David Vander Meulen, Brad Pasanek, Cynthia Wall, and Chad Wellmon, for which he earned the Edgar F. Shannon Award. Ascher's work combines descriptive bibliography with the history of science, type design, literate computation, and early modern history. He continues this work at the Royal Society sometime this summer with a BSA Short-Term Fellowship and a Katharine F Panzer Jr Research Scholarship from the Bibliographical Society (UK).
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Megillah (scroll) with case, 19th - early 20th century. Gift of Mickey and Harold Smith, Minneapolis Institute of Art.
In Memoriam: William "Bill" Joyce
William Leonard "Bill" Joyce (Princeton Junction, NJ) died the weekend of June 5, aged 79, after a long battle with cancer. A longtime BSA member, Bill served as the inaugural Chair of the Fellowship Committee from 1981 to 1985.
Bill earned his Master of Arts at St. John's University (NYC) in 1966 and then worked at the University of Michigan's William L. Clements Library, where he also earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree. Returning East in 1972, he was the manuscripts curator and education officer for the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, MA. In 1981, he became Assistant Director of the New York Public Library's Research Libraries, responsible for their Rare Book & Manuscript Departments.
Bill served as Princeton's Associate University Librarian for Rare Books and Special Collections from 1986 to 2000; and finally, from 2000 to 2010, the Dorothy Foehr Huck Chair of Special Collections, Head of the Special Collections Library, and Professor of History at Penn State. In between, he also found time to help Columbia University develop their programs in archival training, lecture at Clark University in Worcester, and be a visiting professor at UCLA's Graduate School of Library & Information Science. Bill was an active member of the Grolier Club, the American Antiquarian Society, the JFK Assassination Records Review Board, and the Center for Jewish History.
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