Book History Seminars 2013 – 2nd Semester 2013

Provisional Programme for the Second Semester:

v  Wednesday 14 August, French Insitute of South Africa, 14.00
Mauro Nobili (UCT)
Re-discovering the de Gironcourt collection of West African Arabic manuscripts

v  Saturday 31 August, Market Theatre, Johannesburg, as part of the M&G Literary Festival
Archie Dick (UP) & Isabel Hofmeyr (Wits)

v  5-7 September, University of Cape Town
The Arts and Crafts of Literacy: Manuscript Cultures in Sub-Saharan Africa
International Conference

v  Friday 20 September, University of Cape Town, 14.00
Ananya Kabir (King’s College London) & Adrien Delmas (IFAS)
Philological encounters in the early modern world

v  Wednesday 2 October, University of Pretoria, 14.00
Beth Leroux (UP)
The Cronje Report on Undesirable Literature and its views on crime fiction

v  Wednesday 9 October, University of Pretoria, 14.00
Lize Kriel (UP)
A cultural production of fields? Missionary periodicals and their conflicting constructions of colonial encounters, with specific reference to Wesleyan and Lutheran publishing on the Transvaal in the 1890s

v  (TBC) Wednesday 30 October, French Institute of South Africa,
Gerald Groenewald (UJ)
Building a Nation with Books? Afrikaans Books reviews in Die Huisgenoot, 1916-1939