GLAM meeting, London, 29th October UPDATES

Sarah Prescott

GLAM Members’ Meeting, National Poetry Library, Royal Festival Hall (Level 5) 29 October 2018, 11.45am - 4.15pm Please note revised start time. A full agenda is now available at glam_2018-10-29. Please book tickets at https://glam_members_meeting.eventbrite.co.uk Information on how to get to the Royal Festival Hall: https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/visit/getting-here#17157

Giving Life to Objects: The New Literature Museum in Vienna and the Question of ‘Austrian National Literature’

Sarah Prescott

University of London on 18 October 2018, 6.00pm - 8.00pm The Court Room, First Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Speaker: Bernhard Fetz (Director, Literary Archives, Austrian National Library) Biennial Ingeborg Bachmann Centre Lecture   Museums and exhibitions are experiencing a boom all over the world, probably in response to the apparent end… Continue reading Giving Life to Objects: The New Literature Museum in Vienna and the Question of ‘Austrian National Literature’ →

Bloomsbury Chapter conference ‘Faithful to our task’, 22nd October, London

Sarah Prescott

Celebrating 175 years of Macmillan publishing. An international programme has been revealed for ‘Faithful to our task’, an all-day academic conference on the global history of Macmillan publishing, part of this year’s celebrations for Macmillan’s 175th anniversary. The conference takes place at the Senate House, University of London on Monday, 22 October 2018. It has… Continue reading Bloomsbury Chapter conference ‘Faithful to our task’, 22nd October, London →

Paul Claudel and Audrey Parr: a Cambridge exhibition

John Wells

To mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of the poet and playwright Paul Claudel (1868–1955), a new exhibition in the Cambridge University Library’s main Entrance Hall displays highlights from a collection of letters, postcards, verses and books sent or presented by Claudel to his friend and collaborator Audrey Parr (1892–1940), and donated to the… Continue reading Paul Claudel and Audrey Parr: a Cambridge exhibition →

Job Opportunity: Morgan Library & Museum for Curator of Literary Manuscripts

Sarah Prescott

Robert H. Taylor Curator of Literary and Historical Manuscripts (Full-time) The Morgan Library & Museum seeks a senior curator to lead its Department of Literary and Historical Manuscripts. The Robert H. Taylor Curator and Department Head manages, interprets, and advances the Morgan’s notable collection of primarily handwritten documents spanning more than 500 years and including major… Continue reading Job Opportunity: Morgan Library & Museum for Curator of Literary Manuscripts →

Call for Papers: ‘Things come together?: Literary archives from, in and for Africa’

Sarah Prescott

SCOLMA Annual Conference Things come together?: Literary archives from, in and for Africa Monday 10 September 2018 University of Birmingham  CALL FOR PAPERS This conference will explore African literary archives, their creation, preservation, digitisation and use in research and teaching. African literature is multi-faceted and multi-lingual. Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1958) not only signalled… Continue reading Call for Papers: ‘Things come together?: Literary archives from, in and for Africa’ →

GLAM Meeting, Cambridge, 22nd March

Sarah Prescott

Archives in Translation Join us for a GLAM members meeting focusing on translator’s archives, and literary archives in languages other than English. The meeting will include presentations from members at the University of Manchester, the Southbank Poetry Centre and Cambridge University Library, amongst others. The meeting will be held in Cambridge University Library.  See http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/contact-us Agenda to… Continue reading GLAM Meeting, Cambridge, 22nd March →