Reflecting on 10 years of research in print culture history funded by the James P. Danky Fellowships and the Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Former fellows will return to reflect on how the fellowship informed the research they will be sharing. Also, featuring a closing keynote by Marija Dalbello of Rutgers University, “Cultures Within Cultures of the Book: Histories of the Book in a Diverse America.” The symposium is made possible through the generosity of James P. Danky and Christine Pawley, directors emeritus of the CHPDC.

Schedule (all times Central Standard Time)

Thursday October 15

Opening remarks and introductions: 8:30-9am.

Panel 1 9am – 10:15

Kera Lovell, The People’s Park: Imagining a New America in Radical Urban Takeovers, 1968-1988

Mia Michael, Organizing the ‘Unorganizable’: Domestic Worker Activism in Boston, Massachusetts, 1960-2015

Panel 2 10:30 – 11:15

Mark Hauser, Soldiers’ Newspapers and the First World War’s Public-Private Partnerships

Derek Seidman, Up Against the Bulkhead: How one GI antiwar newspaper tried to organize U.S. soldiers across the Pacific Rim during the Vietnam War

Friday October 16

9am – 10:15

Joshua Mitchell, Peer Review in the Penal Pres

Closing Keynote, 10:30 – noon.

Marija Dalbello, “Cultures Within Cultures of the Book: Histories of the Book in a Diverse America”

Since 1992, the Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture has promoted the interdisciplinary study of text, technology, and culture through lectures and colloquia, biennial conferences, short-term research and long-term postdoctoral fellowships, a book series, our Ph.D. minor, and as a home for campus research and interest groups. We encourage scholarly work on the authorship, reading, publication and distribution of print and digital materials, produced by those not only at the center, but also the periphery of power. wiscprintdigital.org