The Department of English of the University of Reims-Champagne-Ardenne  and
the Institute of  Cultural, Textual and  Documentary  Studies  of Troyes
invite proposals for papers for an international conference on  "The History
of the Irish Book"  to be held in Troyes (France) on May 6-7, 2004.
Suggested topics to explore include (but are not restricted to) :

- -Medieval manuscripts
- -History of literacy
- -The Dublin book-trade in the 18th century
- -Orality and the printed word
- -Ango-Irish writers and their public
- -History of reading
- -Censorship
- -History of modern Publishing
- -Individual Publishing Histories
- -Official Cultural Policies
- -Text and image
- -Reviews, Periodicals and Magazines
- -The Marketing of the Irish Book Today
- -Children's Books
- -Religious Books
- -History of Translation
 Guests Speakers will be Professor Robert Welch (University of Ulster),
co-editor of The History of the Irish Book and Professor Warwick Gould
(Institute of English Studies, University of London), editor of Yeats
Annual.
Proposals of a maximum length of 2500 words should be sent before December
15, 2003 to :

Sylvie Mikowski, Professor of Irish Studies, University of Reims
2, Square des Bouleaux, 75019 Paris, France, as well as any enquiries.

Sylvie.mikowski@noos.fr