[eccr] cfp Religion and the Culture of Print in America

A Call for Papers




Religion and the Culture of Print in America




Authors, publishers, readers and more since 1876

To be held in Madison, Wisconsin

September 10-11, 2004



This conference will address the world of print in which religions and 
religious practices were inherited, constructed and promulgated over the 
last 125 years. In addition to keynote speakers to be announced, there will 
be a number of additional special presentations.  Papers should focus on 
and illuminate the interaction between the reader and printed materials 
(e.g. books, Bibles, periodicals, newspapers, church bulletins, hymnals, 
tracts, etc.) aimed at or produced and read by religious individuals and 
groups. Studies dealing with religion and class, regionalism, feminism, 
immigrant groups, racial and sexual minorities, radicals, etc. are 
especially welcome. The Center hopes that the conference will include 
scholars interested in Protestantism (it its many manifestations, including 
revivalism and missionary outreach), Roman Catholicism (both official 
church and grassroots phenomena such as Marian visitations), Eastern 
Orthodox churches, Mormonism (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints), 
Judaism (all varieties), and Islam (both immigrant and native originated), 
indigenous religions, as well as new or less-well-known religious 
movements.  Studies of single group experiences and studies that compare 
the historical sociology of print in the lives of religious groups and 
individuals located at the periphery of power are of great interest to the 
Center.



The conference is being cosponsored (support requested) by the University 
of Wisconsin-Madison's Religious Studies Program, Department of History, 
School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Department of Afro-American 
Studies, School of Library and Information Studies, Center for the 
Humanities, Center for Jewish Studies, Asian American Studies Program, 
Women's Studies Program, and the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern 
Cultures.



The Center encourages the interdisciplinary study of print culture history 
and welcomes proposals from scholars in all fields.  The Director and 
Advisory Board will select a number of papers from the conference for 
publication in the Center's series "Print Culture History in Modern 
America" published by the University of Wisconsin Press. Papers most likely 
to be selected for publication will be those that combine innovative 
theoretical perspectives, clarity or organization, a pleasing and 
accessible prose style, and significant research in primary resources to 
produce an account that deals with texts and readers in meaningful ways. A 
listing of books produced by the Center, available on the Center's website, 
offers a guide to prospective authors. For more information on the Center 
and its programs 
consult: 
<http://slisweb.lis.wisc.edu/~printcul/>http://slisweb.lis.wisc.edu/~printcul/

Proposals for individual papers or entire sessions (up to three 
presentations) should include a 250-word abstract and a one-page curriculum 
vitae.  If at all possible, submissions should be made via email. Deadline 
for submission is January 30, 2004. Notification of acceptance will be made 
by late February.

For information contact:

James P. Danky, Director

Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America

Wisconsin Historical Society,816 State Street

Madison, WI  53706

608/264-6598  FAX 608/264-6520

(jpdanky /at/ whs.wisc.edu)



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