A draft SHARP 2024 program is now available! ⭐️ Check it out and start charting your conference schedule. Registration for the conference will open in early April. 🗓️

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Dear #SHARPists , thank you for your patience! Registration fees for the @SHARP2024 conference are now up on our website <research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-boo…> ✨Registrations and block booking open after Easter / early April. SHARP (@[email protected]) SHARP (@[email protected])News

🚨Join this Friday 26th Jan! GCSJ seminar on Vernon Lee (nom de plume of Violet Paget) a prolific thinker, writer & prominent anti-militarist. With
Derek Matravers Dr Shafquat Towheed Dr. Sally Blackburn-Daniels
12-1pm Register tinyurl.com/4z7w3m9e
OU Arts & Social Sciences
Oxford Philosophy

Dr Shafquat Towheed Dr. Sally Blackburn-Daniels Edmund King Foresee #pandemicbooksheves inspired conference on lamp-topped ‘book coffee table’. ‘As a decorating technique, this puts you in that sweet spot where curated design meets the kind of hoarding that requires intervention’ theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

Join this Friday! GCSJ seminar on Vernon Lee (nom de plume of Violet Paget) a prolific thinker, writer & prominent anti-militarist. With Derek Matravers Dr Shafquat Towheed Dr. Sally Blackburn-Daniels
12-1pm Register tinyurl.com/4z7w3m9e
OU Arts & Social Sciences
Oxford Philosophy

Still time if you’re interested in applying, see below ⬇️ deadline for expression and interest is 19 January

Interested in working with social media for outreach work with SHARP (@[email protected])? Here’s a great opportunity, see below 👇🏼

🫵 SHARP News wants you! 🫵

We're seeking a new Outreach Coordinator, with appliations due 5 January 2024. All welcome to apply; this role may be especially good for PhD students and ECRs. Time commitment typically 2-3 hours/week.

Details here: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/2023…

🚨Calling all Authors! Remember to ask your publisher to nominate your book for the 2024 SHARP Book History Book Prize! 📚🏆

📅Nominations are open until Friday, January 19th.

If you are interested in applying to become our new Director of Awards, please send any questions or a 200 word expression of interest, outlining your suitability for this role, to SHARP Vice President, Shafquat Towheed, at [email protected] by 19 January 2024.

Director of Awards supports quality scholarship from both early career and more senior scholars. Early career members of SHARP welcome! (There are free books involved!) Start date is ASAP through the Annual General Meeting in 2025.

Publishers! Did you publish an excellent work of book history this year? Do you wish more people were reading it? Nominate it for the 2024 SHARP Book History Book Prize! 📚🏆Submissions due January 19th.📅

sharpweb.org/grants-prizes/…

Two important roles in SHARP (@[email protected]) that would appeal to energetic academics at any stage of their careers, please encourage suitable candidates to apply! IES The Bibliographical Society The Bibliographical SocietyAmer CRASSH, Cambridge TORCH Oxford Edinburgh CHB Samantha Rayner Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) Brookes PuMA Lab

🚨We are now accepting applications for our 25th-Anniversary Fellowship and Research Grants for BIPOC Scholars! Deadline for applications is February 26th, 2024.🏆

Navigate to our website for more info on the awards, criteria, and application.

sharpweb.org/grants-prizes/

'I thoroughly enjoyed the Masters programme, it's really set me up perfectly for my career at the moment!'

Sophie Jones, now working for Jarndyce Books gives a glowing testimonial for our MA in the History of the Book.

We are accepting applications now! ies.sas.ac.uk/study-and-trai…

Just a quick reminder that abstracts for SHARP 2024 are due early in the new year. We are looking forward to hearing from you! 📚

If you’re interested in Scottish literature in translation this is the project you need to know about SHARP (@[email protected]) OU Arts & Social Sciences London Society of Bibliophiles

🏆The call for nominations for the Book History Book Prize is now open!!! 📚

📅Nominations are due by January 19th, 2024.

🤓Check out the website for instructions on how your publisher can nominate your book: sharpweb.org/grants-prizes/…

CFP below ⬇️ start writing ✍️ those abstracts and see you in Reading in July! OU Arts & Social Sciences HistoryOU IES School of Advanced Study, University of London The Bibliographical Society CRASSH, Cambridge TORCH Oxford The British Academy Edinburgh CHB CNRS 🌍 PoKUS / FFZG