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

Massachusetts, USA
Joined July 2018
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. sharp2019.com/program/overvi… If you have updates or corrections, please send them to us.
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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!
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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
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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
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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!
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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
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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
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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
Great clouds roll in on campus. Love the fountains and green spaces @UMassAmherst and @AmherstCollege! ❤️ @SHARPorg #sharp19 #amherst #fountains #scenery #greenspace
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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.”)
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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
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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.
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.
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 !
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.@SHARPorg has been there at every step in the process of writing "Reconstructing & Gendering the Distribution Networks of GLB in the #c19," & I'm honored to receive Book History's essay prize at #SHARP19
Calling @SHARPorg one of her intellectual homes, @AmySopcakJoseph thanks @gbarnhisel & Book History eds for awarding her the prize for best essay, on Godey’s Lady’s Book. It began as a paper at our 2017 conference. This is why we love @SHARPorg — and you should, too! SHARP19
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