Book Culture in the 17th–18th Centuries in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth – conference

The organizers invite scholars to submit paper proposals covering the following thematic areas:

• book production (printing houses, publishing workshops, printing techniques, papermaking, bookbinding),
• the process of book creation from the perspective of authors, translators, and editors,
• book circulation and publishing markets in cities and in the provinces,
• bookselling and the book trade,
• censorship, patronage, and sponsorship of books,
• librarianship and book collecting (private, monastic, and school libraries),
• reception and readership in various social milieus,
• the book as a material object and a work of art,
• the book in the context of the multiculturalism and multilingualism of the Commonwealth,
• the transfer of ideas and foreign influences in Polish book culture.

Fee: free of charge

Paper proposals: by 30 April 2026, to: ksiazka-dawna@ossolineum.pl

Registration without a paper: by 30 May 2026 (limited number of places; acceptance in order of registration)