New Histories of the Small Press, 2025 Conference of the Bibliographical Society of Canada
Location: George Brown College's St. James and Waterfront campuses in downtown Toronto.
New Histories of the Small Press
For its 2025 annual conference, the Bibliographical Society of Canada invited new accounts of the small press, little magazine, or independent publishing initiative in Canada or elsewhere, however these key terms may be defined. What has the small press achieved, and in what framework of meaning should this achievement be understood? Bibliographical, historical, literary, and/or theoretical contributions are welcome, as are methods based in library and information science or the digital humanities. Proposals on the achievements of women, LGBTQIA+ and/or BIPOC subjects were especially encouraged. Small presses are diverse and numerous, they are scattered across the periods and locations of the history of the book, and they leave a rich record in their publications and their archives – but most have not yet had their story told.
Registration Information
The the 2025 Conference of the Bibliographical Society of Canada: New Histories of the Small Press will take place on 5 and 6 June 2025.
The registration fees are broken down into two components – the Congress fees and the Association conference fees. Both fees are mandatory in order to attend association conferences. If you are participating in your association conference as a speaker, presenter, panelist, association staff member, special guest, session chair/moderator, board member, organizer, or are attending one or more association conference session(s), you must pay the association conference fee set by your association. To review your association conference fees, visit Fees by association conference page.
About the Society
The Bibliographical Society of Canada is a bilingual organization that has as its goal the scholarly study of the history, description, and transmission of texts in all media and formats, with a primary emphasis on Canada. Its primary objectives are to promote the study and practice of bibliography (enumerative, historical, descriptive, analytical, and textual) and to further the study of book history, print culture, and literary sociology. The society unites literary scholars, librarians, and historians in its mission.