The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing
(SHARP) will sponsor two panels at the upcoming American Historical
Association convention in Boston. These sessions are free and open to
the general public: you need not be a SHARP member or an AHA registrant
to attend.
Both sessions will meet Friday, January 5, in the Hyannis Room at
the Boston Marriott Copley Place Hotel:
Session 1: 9:30-11:30 am: INTERACTIVE LITERATURE IN PRE-ELECTRONIC
AMERICA
Chair: Priscilla Coit Murphy, University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill
"Ready Reckoner and Handy Record-Keeper: The Almanac as Daily Diary"
Molly McCarthy, Brandeis University
"Grassroots Readers and the Sex Radical Press in Gilded Age America"
Joanne E. Passet, Dominican University
"Defending the `Responsive Glow of Self-Approval': Nationalism, Refined
Taste, and the Cultural Politics of American Magazine Illustration"
J. Arthur Bond, Valparaiso University
Comment: Patricia Crane, Princeton University
Session 2: 2:30-4:30 pm: PUBLISHING, PROPAGANDA, AND POWER:
INTELLECTUALS AND THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY STATE
Chair: Robert Westbrook, University of Rochester
"`What the Numbers Tell Us': Nationalists and Statistical Knowledge in
Brazil's Vargas Era, 1930-45"
Jerry Davila, Gustavus Adolphus College
"Big Media, State Power, and the Search for a Competent Public: The
Hutchins Commission and Post-World War II Liberal Anxieties"
Brett Gary, Drew University
"Masaryk, Saint of the State: Political Hagiography in Czechoslovakia,
1928-38"
Andrea Orzoff, New Mexico State University
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