For all up-to-date information and registration, visit the conference website: www.bsanz2021.org/  

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BSANZ is pleased to announce that the conference for 2021 will be hosted online from Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand on 22-23 November 2021.

The call for papers is closing on 14 July. Read more here.

We are thrilled to announce our keynote speakers: Dr Hirini Kaa, of Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Kahungunu and Rongowhakaata, an historian and Anglican minister, and Dr Sarah Werner, book historian and digital media scholar. Read more here.

Keep an eye out here for further programme announcements and the link to the conference website.

In 2020, the annual BSANZ conference took place online.

Videos of all of the sessions are now available on BSANZ’s YouTube channel.

View the conference Opening Remarks and Welcome to Country below:

Click here for the conference programme and abstracts

The History of the Book and the Future of the World

The annual BSANZ conference for 2020 will be held at the State Library of South Australia Monday 30 November and Tuesday 1 December. There will be a Rare Book Librarians Day event on Wednesday 2 December. The call for papers is available here, and click here for the conference website.

In 2019, the Society celebrates its 50th anniversary.

Please join us in Melbourne on Tuesday 26 February 2019 to mark the occasion. There are three parts to the gathering, across two venues:

• 1.30–5pm, State Library Victoria, Conference Centre, Entry 3 La Trobe St: Papers on the history of the Society and current research will be presented by Wallace Kirsop, Brian McMullin, Chris Tiffin, Merete Colding Smith and Louise Box.
• 6–7pm, State Library Victoria, Village Roadshow Theatrette, Entry 3 La Trobe St: The annual Foxcroft Lecture will be presented by Louise Anemaat (SLNSW) on ‘Unseen art of the First Fleet’.
• 7.30pm, University of Melbourne: Dinner for Society members and supporters (cost to be confirmed).

Please indicate interest in the papers and the dinner to Meredith Sherlock (meredith.sherlock@monash.edu) by 20 January 2019. Venue details and the dinner cost will be confirmed once this information is received.

You must book separately for the Foxcroft Lecture, and this free event does book out – please follow this link to secure your place: https://www.slv.vic.gov.au/whats-on/2019-foxcroft-lecture-unseen-art-first-fleet.