Name: Bookselling as Resistance (BRN 2025)
Start: 2025-09-10T17:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-09-12T16:00:00+02:00
Location: ES

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

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