Proposals are invited for speakers at a graduate student workshop on material cultures of writing from the Enlightenment to Modernity. We ask you to send in ideas for 10-minute presentations inspired by any object in the Victoria and Albert Museum concerned with the material culture of writing. This might include paper, ink, furniture, tools, printers, typewriters and keyboards, spaces and times, the postal system, digital images, gender and networking, friendship circles, diaries, travel journals, accounts, business, privacy and publication. Proposals should not exceed one sheet of A4 and an image of the object should be attached if possible. Your presentation could be in the form of critical and/or creative writing; it could take the form of a missive, letter, journal, blog, email or tweet and it should invite a response from the audience.
Please send your proposals to k.spiller [at] swansea.ac.uk by 1 October 2012.
More information on the Writing Materials: Women of Letters from Enlightenment to Modernity conference at http://www.elizabethmontagunetwork.co.uk/home