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More SHARP conference recordings watching
Aug. 9th, 2023 06:43 amI'm continuing to watch panels of interest to me from this summer's SHARP (Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing) book history conference. Which this year was totally online. I was too ill at the time to watch anything live, but have until the end of August to watch the Zoom recordings I want to see. So far I have watched 8 panels, each usually with 2 or 3 speakers. And a list of more to watch in the coming weeks.
Every single academic conference talk I am able to watch - now usually from home, in my pyjamas, typically in bed! - inspires my own research. For example today I was watching a panel about black voices and enslaved workers in the North American book trade. So many similar names to the black servants I have been uncovering in eighteenth-century Scotland. I need to get that research written up and submitted to an academic journal for peer review. Watching this panel today gave me a kick up the butt to do that! Another talk I enjoyed was an academic who researched popular readership and translations of Asian literature in the Victorian era for his PhD. Along the way he started building up his own collection of books from that field and era. He talked in the panel about how he researched those books' owners and readers. And again that reminded me that I have some slightly related research that I should write up and publish on sometime.
Every single academic conference talk I am able to watch - now usually from home, in my pyjamas, typically in bed! - inspires my own research. For example today I was watching a panel about black voices and enslaved workers in the North American book trade. So many similar names to the black servants I have been uncovering in eighteenth-century Scotland. I need to get that research written up and submitted to an academic journal for peer review. Watching this panel today gave me a kick up the butt to do that! Another talk I enjoyed was an academic who researched popular readership and translations of Asian literature in the Victorian era for his PhD. Along the way he started building up his own collection of books from that field and era. He talked in the panel about how he researched those books' owners and readers. And again that reminded me that I have some slightly related research that I should write up and publish on sometime.
