Bookselling as Resistance (BRN 2025)
von
Mittwoch, 10. September 2025(17:00)
bis
Freitag, 12. September 2025(16:00)
Montag, 8. September 2025
Dienstag, 9. September 2025
Mittwoch, 10. September 2025
17:00
17:00 - 20:00
Room: 131
Beiträge
17:30
Words of Welcome
-
Corinna Norrick-Rühl
(
English Department, Chair of Book Studies
)
Eben Muse
(
Bangor University
)
Samantha Rayner
(
UCL
)
18:00
Opening Keynote
Donnerstag, 11. September 2025
09:00
Bookselling in the 19th Century
Bookselling in the 19th Century
09:00 - 10:00
Room: 131
Beiträge
09:00
J.B. Miller and Co: Pirate Publishing, Free Thought, and the Circulation of Ideas in 19th-Century Rural Nova Scotia
-
Daniel Samson
(
Brock University
)
09:30
Beyond Big House Publishers: A New Map of Bookselling in 19th-Century New York City
-
Kristen Highland
(
American University of Sharjah
)
10:00
Break
Break
10:00 - 10:15
Room: 131
10:15
Bookselling in Interwar and Postwar Britain
Bookselling in Interwar and Postwar Britain
10:15 - 11:15
Room: 131
Beiträge
10:15
Irene Babbidge: the “quintessential personal bookseller”
-
Samantha Rayner
(
Professor of Publishing and Book Cultures, Dept of Information Studies, UCL
)
10:40
Books and popular politics: communist bookshops in Interwar Britain
-
Elen Cocaign
(
Université Paris 8
)
11:15
Break
Break
11:15 - 11:30
Room: 131
11:30
Political Bookshops in the 20th and 21st Centuries
Political Bookshops in the 20th and 21st Centuries
11:30 - 12:30
Room: 131
Beiträge
11:30
Better Books, Bomb Culture, and Beyond: Two Radical Bookshops in the 1960s
-
Andrew Thacker
(
Nottingham Trent University
)
12:00
Left-wing bookshops and infrastructure in Germany: platforms for a counter-public sphere from the 1970s to the present day
-
Anke Vogel
(
JGU Mainz
)
12:30
Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 13:30
Room: 131
13:30
Bookselling and Resistance: Indian Perspectives
Bookselling and Resistance: Indian Perspectives
13:30 - 15:30
Room: 131
Beiträge
13:30
The ‘Problem’ of Piracy in India’s Informal Book Markets: Hearing from the Booksellers
-
Pritha Mukherjee
(
University of Reading
)
14:00
Resist, Remember, Repeat: Bookselling Under Siege in Old Delhi’s Sunday Book Bazaar
-
Kanupriya Dhingra
(
School of Liberal Studies, BML Munjal University, Delhi NCR
)
14:30
Sharir ki Jankari: Feminist Embodied Knowledge and Collective Bookselling
-
Anushmita Mohanty
(
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
)
15:30
brief coffee break
brief coffee break
15:30 - 15:45
Room: 131
15:45
Bookshops, censorship and freedom of expression
Bookshops, censorship and freedom of expression
15:45 - 16:15
Room: 131
19:00
Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner
19:00 - 20:00
Room: 131
Freitag, 12. September 2025
09:00
09:00 - 10:00
Room: 131
Beiträge
09:00
Exploring audiobook piracy as an act of commercial resistance
-
Millicent Weber
(
Australian National University
)
Claire Parnell
(
University of Melbourne
)
Alexandra Dane
(
University of Melbourne
)
10:00
Break
Break
10:00 - 10:15
Room: 131
10:15
Alternative Spaces
Alternative Spaces
10:15 - 11:15
Room: 131
Beiträge
10:15
Siopau Llyfrau Cymraeg: Minority bookselling and minority culture
-
Eben Muse
10:45
Edinburgh’s Radical Book Fair – history and future
-
Christina Neuwirth
11:15
Break
Break
11:15 - 11:30
Room: 131
11:30
Bookselling across Borders
Bookselling across Borders
11:30 - 12:30
Room: 131
Beiträge
11:30
‘Our little enterprise’: Giovanni’s Room, Gay’s the Word, and transnational bookselling as resistance
-
Sarah Pyke
12:00
Importing Languages, Circulating Ideas. Political Dimensions of Foreign-Language Bookselling in Berlin
-
Inge Orlowski
(
University of Luxembourg
)
12:30
Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 13:30
Room: 131
13:30
Considerations of Genre in Bookselling
Considerations of Genre in Bookselling
13:30 - 14:30
Room: 131
Beiträge
13:30
Selling books with Charlie’s bedroom: Heartstopper and its commercial contexts
-
Malcolm Noble
(
Leicester Vaughan College
)
14:00
The Romance Shop Around the Corner: How Women Readers Created a New Kind of Independent Bookstore
-
Angelina Eimannsberger
(
University of Pennsylvania
)
14:30
Concluding Remarks
Concluding Remarks
14:30 - 15:00
Room: 131