A cultural history of libraries worldwide
Une histoire culturelle des bibliothèques dans le monde
"Revue d’histoire culturelle – XVIIIe-XXIe siècles" number 11
« Revue d’histoire culturelle – XVIIIe-XXIe siècles » n°11
Published on Friday, July 19, 2024
Abstract
The study of libraries is situated within cultural history at the intersection of social history, history of knowledge, the history of imaginaries, political history, and the history of cultural practices. Their forms, their projects, their uses, and their representations have evolved alongside the societies that have financed, built and supported them. This issue of the Revue d’histoire culturelle XVIIIe-XXIe siècles, devoted to “the cultural history of libraries worldwide”, will consider this history from three points of view : the place of the library in fiction and the arts ; the library as a collective project – or counter-project ; the library as a social practice.
Announcement
Argument
The study of libraries is situated within cultural history at the intersection of social history, history of knowledge, the history of imaginaries, political history, and the history of cultural practices. Their forms, their projects, their uses, and their representations have evolved alongside the societies that have financed, built and supported them. They have been conceived, either successively or concurrently, as tools for intellectual emancipation, for the construction of a collective identity, real or imagined, or for social integration. They have also been the object of antagonisms, particularly related to opposing or competing professional cultures, or have been the victims of censorship. They have been contested and transformed as dominant representations and power relations have evolved. Thus, the collections of the Enlightenment were succeeded by the “national” libraries of nineteenth-century Europe, then the great American philanthropic projects, before the achievements of popular education, the development of public reading, the media libraries of the late twentieth century, contemporary digital libraries and the “third places” of the early twenty-first century took over.
This issue of the Revue d’histoire culturelle XVIIIe-XXIe siècles, devoted to “the cultural history of libraries worldwide”, will consider this history from three points of view : the place of the library in fiction and the arts ; the library as a collective project – or counter-project ; the library as a social practice.
1° Telling, drawing, building libraries
- Life stories and fiction : writing about life in the library
- Cinema and graphic arts : making the library visible
- Dystopias, uchronies : other libraries
- Libraries as metaphors
- Building the library : architectural drawings and projects
2° Libraries, ideologies and cultural projects
- Opening collections to new users : the Enlightenment project
- National libraries : collections and imagined identities (19th-20th centuries)
- Libraries and philanthropy : the American model and its spread (19th-20th centuries)
- Fragile libraries : destruction, purification, abandonment (20th-21st centuries)
- Libraries and the Anthropocene : feminist and post-colonial challenges (20th-21st centuries)
3° Libraries as social practices
- The librarian profession (18th-21st centuries)
- Classification, cataloguing, databases : issues of power ?
- Birth, triumph (and demise ?) of the media library
- Real and imagined library audiences : children, scholars, the homeless and the unexpected
- Uses and misuses of space : rules and regulations and their avatars
Submission guidelines
Submission of an abstract (maximum 2,500 characters) and a brief bio-bibliographical note
by October 20, 2024
to the following four addresses : benjamin.caraco@gmail.com ; cjc.lavenir@hotmail.com ; elise-lehoux@orange.fr ; revuedeladhc@gmail.com.
Timeline
- Notification to authors : November 30, 2024
- Submission of first drafts of articles (max. 50,000 characters including spaces) : February 28, 2025
- Return of article reviews : April 30, 2025
- Submission of version 2 by authors : May 31, 2025
- Publication of issue 9 of the magazine : October 31, 2025
For more information on the journal and instructions for authors
Articles may be written in French or English.
Editorial board
- Anne-Claude Ambroise-Rendu (Professeure, Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin)
- Fabien Archambault (MCF, Université de Limoges)
- Avner Ben-Amos (Professor, Université de Tel-Aviv)
- Catherine Bertho-Lavenir (Inspecteur général émérite, Professeure des universités)
- Marion Brétéché (MCF, Université d’Orléans)
- Elisa Capdevila (Professeure agrégée, docteure)
- Benjamin Caraco (Conservateur des bibliothèques, docteur)
- Evelyne Cohen (Professeure émérite, ENSSIB -Université de Lyon)
- Fabien Conord (Professeur, Université Clermont Auvergne)
- Véronique Figini (MCF, ENS Louis Lumière)
- Jean-Charles Geslot (MCF, Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin)
- Pascale Goetschel (Professeure, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne)
- Laurence Guignard (MCF HDR, Université de Lorraine)
- Laure Guilbert (Chercheur invité, Institut Max Planck pour le développement humain, Berlin)
- Marion Henry (MCF, Université Paris 1)
- Myriam Juan (MCF, Université de Caen Normandie)
- Élise Lehoux (MCF, Université d’Angers)
- Gilles Malandain (Professeur, Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin)
- Laurent Martin (Professeur, Université Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle)
- Caroline Moine (Professeure, Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin)
- Jean-Sébastien Noël (MCF, Université de la Rochelle)
- Pascal Ory (de l’Académie française, Professeur émérite, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
- Philippe Poirrier (Professeur, Université de Bourgogne)
- André Rauch (Professeur émérite, Université de Strasbourg)
- Françoise Taliano-des Garets (Professeure, Sciences Po Bordeaux)
- Anna Trespeuch-Berthelot (MCF, Université de Caen Normandie)
- Julie Verlaine (Professeure, Université de Tours)
- Dimitri Vezyroglou (MCF HDR, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
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Subjects
Date(s)
- Sunday, October 20, 2024
Keywords
- bibliothèque, bibliothécaire, histoire culturelle
Reference Urls
Information source
- Benjamin Caraco
courriel : benjamin [dot] caraco [at] gmail [dot] com
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This announcement is licensed under the terms of Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal.
To cite this announcement
« A cultural history of libraries worldwide », Call for papers, Calenda, Published on Friday, July 19, 2024, https://doi.org/10.58079/122b3
