Upcoming Events

In all BSA events, the material text – that is, the handwritten, printed, or other textual artifact, broadly conceived – as historical evidence, and/or the theory and practice of descriptive, historical, and/or critical bibliography, is a central concern to participants and organizers.

BSA programs take place both in-person and online; some events are hosted by other organizations. Registration is required for most BSA events.

Most BSA virtual events are live captioned in English. Additional options may be offered, read full description for more information. Due to the technical challenges presented by simultaneous live interpretation and captioning, most events will feature only one or the other. BSA videos are captioned in English and Spanish on our YouTube channel.

To request ASL interpretation for any event, please email bsa@bibsocamer.org.

Upcoming Events, In-person and online (listed chronologically)

The 2024 Renaissance Society of America Conference – BSA Sponsored Panels

BSA-RSA Liaison Dr. Aaron T. Pratt organized the following panels at the 2024 Renaissance Society of America (RSA) Conference in Chicago, IL. Registration required; details online.

March 22, 2024 – Selling Old Books in Early Modern England
- Megan Heffernan, Panel Chair
- John Edwards, the Bodleian, and the Secondhand Book Trade
  Tamara Atkin, Queen Mary University of London
- Selling Old News: The Popish Plot Catalogues
  Jill E Gage, The Newberry Library
- Secondhand Shakespeare
  Dr. Aaron T. Pratt, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin

March 23, 2024 – Race, Bibliography, and Book History
- Dr. Aaron T. Pratt, Panel Chair
- Joseph Moxon, Printing, and Race
  Brandi Kristine Adams, Arizona State University
- White Animals, White Paper, White Printers
  Dr. Erika Mary Boeckeler, Northeastern University
- Transformados en Papel: Branding Books and Bodies in Sixteenth-Century New Spain
  Dr. David Medina, Florida Atlantic University

The 2024 American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, April 4-6, Toronto, Canada | Registration Required

April 4, 2024, 11:30am – Bibliography by the Numbers: Meta-Bibliography and the Study of Eighteenth-Century Book Culture
- Chair: Kit KINCADE, Indiana State University
- Kandice SHARREN, University of Saskatchewan, and Kate MOFFATT, Simon Fraser University,
  “Portrait of a Bibliographical Dataset: The Women’s Print History Project, 2015-2024”
- Leah ORR, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, “Finding Women Book Trade Professionals in the
  Electronic Archive”
- Heather HECKMAN-MCKENNA, University of Missouri, “The Subversive Body Database”
- Sören HAMMERSCHMIDT, GateWay Community College, “Author Portraits & Print Markets:
  Curll, Tonson, Lintot”
April 5, 2024, 4:30pm – Bibliography by the Numbers: Meta-Bibliography and the Study of Eighteenth-Century Book Culture
- Chair: Benjamin PAULEY, Eastern Connecticut State University
- Kate OZMENT, Cal Poly Pomona, “Gender Solidarity in the British Book Trades”
- Lisa MARUCA, Wayne State University, “(Middle) Distant Reading: Understanding Publisher
  Mary Cooper through a Feminist Mixed-Methods Analysis”
- Michelle LYONS-MCFARLAND, Case Western Reserve University, “The Travels of Memoirs of
  the Duke of Sully”
- Anna KROON, Texas Tech University, “Exploring Digital Text Reuse Methods for Printing Agent Relationships in Chapbook Production”
- Gary KELLY, University of Alberta, “Media Studies and the Eighteenth Century”

The 2024 International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 9-11, Western Michigan University | Registration Required

May 10, 2024, 10-11:30am: Haptic and Affective Engagement with Medieval Material Culture (A Roundtable)
- Sponsors: Bibliographical Society of America; Digital Editing and the Medieval Manuscript: Rolls and Fragments (DEMMR/F)
- Presider: Katherine Storm Hindley, Nanyang Technological Univ.
- Organizer: Gina Marie Hurley, Yale Univ.
  Agnieszka Rec, Yale Univ.
  Katherine Storm Hindley
- Speakers: A roundtable discussion with Lisa Fagin Davis, Medieval Academy of America; Elizabeth K. Hebbard, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington; Darcy Kern, Southern Connecticut State Univ.; Agnieszka Rec; Sophie Durbin, Univ. of the Highlands and Islands
May 10, 2024 6pm: Bibliographical Society of America and Yale Program in Medieval Studies Reception
May 11, 2024, 10-11:30am: Material Resonances: Unifying Object-Based Study and the Digital Humanities
Sponsors: Bibliographical Society of America; Digital Editing and the Medieval Manuscript: Rolls and Fragments (DEMMR/F)
- Presider: Gina Marie Hurley, Yale Univ.
- Organizer: Gina Marie Hurley
  Agnieszka Rec, Yale Univ.
  Katherine Storm Hindley, Nanyang Technological Univ.
- The Digital, the Material, of Old English Poetry Martin Foys, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison
- Paleographer Versus Computer: Teaching Digital Paleography Hannelore M. Segers, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale Univ.
- Data in/and Medieval Studies Daniel Paul O’Donnell, Univ. of Lethbridge
- Interactive Digital Editions of the Medieval Roll Kimberly Jaye Lifton, Yale Univ.

Recorded Virtual Events Available on YouTube

Click here to peruse the playlist of recorded webinars on the BSA’s YouTube Channel.

The Society is working to be sure that accurate captions in English and Spanish are uploaded for YouTube videos within 2 to 3 weeks of posting online. Thank you for your patience as we work through the kinks in implementing this new program!