Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand

2011 Conference

The Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide

Thursday 3rd – Friday 4th November

The conference theme of Textual Manipulation will explore, within the discipline of physical and textual bibliography, both past practices and future trends - in particular how the manipulation of electronic texts may change the landscape of bibliographical studies over the coming decades.

Presentations will be 20-25 minutes will be followed by discussion (maximum 30 min per speaker)

Travel bursaries are available.

The Conference will be preceded by a Rare Book Librarians’ Day on Wednesday the 2nd November, The Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide.

The BSANZ Conference will be followed by the free one-day symposium
Book Logic 3: Text-Logic and Book History
Saturday 5 November, 10am–5pm, Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide.
The aim of the Book Logic series, which began at the University of Sydney in March 2010, is to bring together postgraduate students, postdoctoral fellows, independent researchers and academics whose work involves aspects of textual studies: the scholarly editing of literary works and historical documents, the study of versions of works, editorial theory, physical bibliography, codicology and history of the book.
Programme and contact details

Other events in Adelaide in November
Accommodation
Enquiries
Registration

Provisional programme

Wednesday 2 November - 5-7 pm
Welcome reception, following Rare Book Librarians' Day
Flinders University Art Gallery, State Library of SA, North Tce

Thursday 3rd November

• John Arnold. The Bi-Centenary History: a phenomenon in Australian publishing
• Wallace Kirsop. Searching for Instancy: publishing lectures in Paris in the late 1820s
• Dennis Bryans. Translating Chinese Languages on the Victorian Goldfields
• Kevin Molloy. Textual Continuities & Displaced Spaces: imported texts and local publishing for the Sydney Irish in the 1840s
• Paul Eggert. Colin Roderick’s Henry Lawson: a bibliographic review of the scholarly editions, forty years late
• Sandra LM Rota. The Intertextuality of an Anglo-Saxon Poem
• John Gouws. The Metempsychosis of Early Modern English Works: case studies of Fulke Greville and Nicholas Oldisworth
• Jenna Mead. Undoing Mrs Gertrude Townsend Mayer
• Bryan Coleborne. Five Dangerous Paragraphs: the text of Gulliver’s Travels revisited
• Robert Cettl. Digitizing Offence: aesthetics, dissemination and censorship
• Donald Kerr. The Power of the Hand Press: Otakou Press Productions at the University of Otago
• AGM

Pre-dinner drinks: Rare Books & Special Collections, Barr Smith Library (including tours of Special Collections)
Dinner (optional) in our new Staff Club premises

• Dinner musical presentation: 'Doomed queens, nuns and Robbie Burns: songs from Jane Austen's manuscript music books' by Gillian Dooley

Friday 4 November

• Michael Burden. Fluid Texts, Moving Arias, Shifting Sands; The London opera libretto in the 18th-century
• Rosemary Richards. Georgiana McCrae’s Manuscript Music Collections
• Gerrit Stafford. Miniature Books
• Chris Tiffin. Textual Criticism and the Manipulative Reader
• Brian McMullin. Readers of Novels: reading Sir Walter Scott's The Antiquary
• Jean McBain. The Many Manipulations of Malory
• Ray Choate. McSweeney's: an overview 
• Hugh Craig. The Date of Sir Thomas More
• Brett D. Hirsch. The Authorship of Fair Em
• Michelle de Stefani. Home is Where the Hypertext is: interpretive communities and nineteenth-­century parenting books for the digital age
• Matthew Stephens. The Historic House Libraries Database: providing access to local histories of the book in a globally digitised environment

Full programme with abstracts and biographies

State Opera of SA Carmen 5 November 2011 - 12 November 2011 http://www.saopera.sa.gov.au/whats-on/carmen
Brink Productions. Land & Sea by Nicki Bloom 4 Nov 2011 - 19 Nov 2011 WORLD PREMIER http://www.brinkproductions.com/on_sale

 Accommodation
We have not recommended a specific hotel but the following are close to the University and have a good reputation - and are close to the North Tce cultural precinct, Rundle Street restaurant strip and Rundle Mall shops
Majestic Roof Garden Hotel http://www.majestichotels.com.au/
Mantra Hindmarsh Square http://www.mantra.com.au/south-australia/adelaide-and-surrounds/adelaide/accommodation/hotels/mantra-hindmarsh-square/
Crowne Plaza Adelaide http://www.ichotelsgroup.com/h/d/cp/1/en/hotel/adlch

Another option is Kathleen Lumley Postgraduate Residential College in nearby North Adelaide http://www.adelaide.edu.au/accommodation/colleges/kathleen.html 

Enquiries to:
Cheryl Hoskin,
Special Collections Librarian,
Barr Smith Library, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide SA 5005
cheryl.hoskin@adelaide.edu.au