Print Culture Histories Beyond the Metropolis Conference

Print Culture Histories Beyond the Metropolis Conference

March 15-16, 2013

Ball State University

Muncie, Indiana

The Center for Middletown Studies held a conference devoted to the theme of “Print Culture Histories Beyond the Metropolis.”  The conference took place on March 15 and 16, 2013 in Muncie, Indiana.   The animating idea of the conference was to explore the ways that printed material was produced, consumed, circulated, and encountered in smaller cities, provincial districts, rural settings, colonial outposts, and comparable contexts.  The chronological focus for the conference was the modern world (primarily since the eighteenth century) and it included papers examining print culture in Europe, Asia, Central America, North America, and Australia.  A conference program is available here.

Streaming video of the conference sessions will soon be available through the Ball State Digital Media Repository.  Check back here for details.