SHARP 2019

Official account of the 2019 conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP), to be held in Amherst, 15-19 July 2019

[SHARP 2019 @SHARP_2019]

We hope your summer continues to go well after #SHARP19

As promised, we posted the complete program book as pdf, along with abstract & speaker bios as we had them at the end of the conference.

https://t.co/AulpyUbhS9

If you have updates or corrections, please send them to us.

[SHARP 2019 @SHARP_2019]

To all who attended #SHARP19 & contributed to the effort not only to making this conference a success, but also to building a more vibrant, global, inclusive organization: we thank you, ask you to stay involved with @SHARPorg —and wish you a bon voyage!

Next year in Amsterdam!

[SHARP 2019 @SHARP_2019]

So, it seems the #SHARP19 eastern route tour had a good time: swimming at Walden Pond, going home with hard cider and crackers. They also found ice cream. We got a private tour of Edith Wharton’s library and are now drinking while listening to jazz on the terrace

[SHARP 2019 @SHARP_2019]

Yes. And the @SHARPorg western route #SHARP19 post-conference tour group took the liberty of acquiring a few to finance our trip to SHARP Amsterdam in 2020

[Prof Melanie Ramdarshan Bold @ILoveCopyright]

Hungry Caterpillar 4 life, at the Eric Carle museum #SHARP19

[Nigel Beale The Biblio File @nigelbeale]

Hadley is about a 15 minute drive away from Amherst, (and #Sharp19), and Hadley is the home of Grey Matter Books. How good is it? Well, I found these copies of The Devil's Artisan, a Canadian journal of the printing arts!

[Emma M. Sarconi @EmSarconi]

Basking in the glow of my 1st #sharp19, where I met a group of AMAZING people who inspired me in myriad ways, including in the unfinished work by myself but also this field, which tends too white, too western, too patriarchal. May we all strive towards a more inclusive #sharp20

[Biblio Banter @BanterBiblio]

We made it! Two successful presentations. We’ll have to sleep until SHARP 2020, but it was worth it. Thanks so much to @SHARP_2019 for such a great experience. We are already contemplating ideas for next year. #sharp19

[SHARP 2019 @SHARP_2019]

@lucretiab @SHARPorg Planning to finalize as pdf

[SHARP 2019 @SHARP_2019]

Good morning, tweeps!

Here, for your convenience, are the venue changes we announced yesterday:

• Session 10.1 now meets in ILC S211
• Session 10.8 now meets in ILC S110

• Session 11.5 now meets in ILC S211
• Session 11.4 now meets in IL S220

[Bradley McIlwain @McIlwainBradley]

Great clouds roll in on campus. Love the fountains and green spaces @UMassAmherst and @AmherstCollege! ❤️ @SHARPorg #sharp19 #amherst #fountains #scenery #greenspace

[Street Players @blkpulpfiction]

Catching up on some paperback reading while in the Five Colleges region for #SHARP19 and came across this apt joke from John O’Hara’s PAL JOEY (1940). (The narrator also fibs that he went to “Dartmouth u.”)

[Biblio Banter @BanterBiblio]

2/4 of us are at #sharp19 and we are both exhausted and yet exhilarated by the huge amount of knowledge we are surrounded by here. Great keynotes, amazing panels, and lots of great discussions. And let’s not forget beautiful scenery at #UMass and @TownOfAmherst! @SHARP_2019

[SHARP 2019 @SHARP_2019]

We hear that, but like you (thanks!) we see that as a sign of our success: we had so many excellent indigenous papers & panels that, even though we tried to spread them out, some overlap was inevitable. Plus yes, we tried to integrate rather than ghettoise individual papers.

[Will Hansen @ambiguitweets]

Heard some grumbling today about Indigenous Studies sessions being up against each other in the same time slot at #sharp19, but I have to say, I really appreciate the need for these overlaps. No ghettoization, but both focused panels & discussion of Indigeneity w/in other topics.

[Cecilia Weddell @CCWeddell]

Forgot/failed to tweet from an excellent second day of #SHARP19 panels, but here’s some photos of the v tall and cool Du Bois Library ⁦@UMassLibraries⁩ !

[SHARP 2019 @SHARP_2019]

@melusinagr Reverse happens to me when I go to Europe :)

But printers worked okay? That’s the main thing we want to hear. When I saw complaint and printing, we were for a moment concerned :)