Reading as a Social Technology

The History of Reading Group is hosting a one-day, interdisciplinary conference that will provide a forum for sharing recent research findings in the history of reading, with an eye toward investigating the technologies that shape reading as a social experience. The keynote speakers will be Adrian Johns (University of Chicago) and Elaine Treharne (Florida State University).
For more information, visit the conference web site.

This conference is sponsored by the University of California Transliteracies Project and the IHC History of Material Texts Research Focus Group.

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