Colloque : « The bookshop trade in Latin America: beginnings, connections, expansions (19th-20th century) »

Le colloque international « The bookshop trade in Latin America: beginnings, connections, expansions (19th-20th century) » aura lieu à l’Institut Caro et Cuervo (Bogota, Colombie) en novembre 2020. Les propositions de communication sont attendues pour le 1^er juin 2020 au plus tard.

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The bookshop trade in Latin America: beginnings, connections, expansions (19th-20th century)

Instituto Caro y Cuervo (Bogotá, Colombia)

November 2020

The event seeks to serve as a space for the discussion of research dedicated to the history of booksellers and bookshops in Latin America for a period that goes from the mid-nineteenth century, with its gradual take-off and differentiation, until the mid-twentieth century, period of relative splendor linked to the rise of the publishing industry in the continent.

In this way, the colloquium opens up to diverse and innovative proposals, which examine issues such as the moments of multiplication and specialization of bookshops, the role of transnational mobility in its foundation, its place in the circulation of ideas, or its relations with politics, literature or intellectual work. Without excluding other approaches to the historical study of bookshops and booksellers, the colloquium hopes to gather proposals located in one or several of the following research topics:

• Bookshops, power and lettered culture
• The sociability between books, specificities and representations
• Migrations, exiles and mobility in the history of bookshops
• Markets, intermediaries and supply routes
• The specialized bookshop: beginnings, trends, audiences
• Catalogs, advertising and visibility of the bookstore trade
• Booksellers as publishers: modalities and strategies
• The urban geography of bookshops: locations and movements

The call closes on June 1. More details about the call (in Spanish) can be seen in the attached.