BSANZ Annual Conference Online
18–20 November 2026
Duplication: Originals, Copies, and Interpretative Communities
Reception, including reading, listening and viewing, occurs at the tail-end of a complex process of production and reproduction that can create a significant distance between the authors who begin the process and the individual recipients who enact multiple, unique endings in their idiosyncratic experience. With an acknowledgement of the digital reproduction that enables this online conference to occur, we invite papers that address the impact of reproduction at any stage of this process. We especially welcome papers that address the impact of reproduction on the textual, material and cultural meaning of the work, text or image that is reproduced on, amongst others:
- Authorship
- Composition and revision
- Versions and versioning
- Duplicates and duplication
- Editors and editing
- Manuscripts and scribal cultures
- Printers and printing
- Publishers and publishing
- Digitisation and interoperability
- Books, periodicals and serialisation
- Zines and zine culture
- Copyright laws and reproduction
- Adaptation and abridgement
- Book design and typography
- Forgers and forgery
- AI-generated content
- Readers and reading
- Textual performance
We are seeking proposals for individual 20-minute papers or panels, as well as proposals for 5-minute lightning talks. Please send a proposal of 2–300 words + a bio of no more than 50 words to roger.osborne@jcu.edu.au by 30 June 2026. All sessions will be enabled by Zoom.
Post-conference, presenters will be invited to submit a full-length article for peer-review that will contribute to a special Volume 50 of Script and Print, a milestone worthy of celebration.
Please note that all conference presenters must be BSANZ members: http://www.bsanz.org/membership