SHARP 2023-BRN Panel: The Bookshop as Interface
Bookshops operate as more than just spaces where the commercial retail of books occurs. They are places of ideas, which encourage us to venture beyond our own experiences and expand imaginative and intellectual horizons. Indeed, as Martin Latham has claimed, bookshops do this even more successfully than universities: “it seems, indeed, such institutionalized thinking is less likely to be mould-breaking; whereas a bookshop, used open-mindedly enough, uniquely challenges the normative thinking which dulls our reason and clouds our souls (The Bookseller’s Tale, p. 305). This panel looks at some ways the interface of the bookshop has fostered, or is fostering, new ideas, whether in fictionalised accounts of bookshops or histories of actual ones.
Bookshops: Online and On the High Street
The 2nd Annual Bookselling Research Network Conference, in association with the Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing When: 3rd-4th July 2023Where: University of ReadingCFP Deadline: Extended to 15 March Jeff Deutsch, in his recent In Praise of Good Bookstores, reflected that because...
Revisiting El comercio de librería en América Latina
Since 2019, the Instituto Caro y Cuervo, under the lead of the M.A Publishing Studies coordinator, Juan David Murillo[1], worked to develop an international colloquium to reconstruct and reflect on the socio-cultural history of bookshops in Latin America: Coloquio internacional. El comercio...
