A one-day conference at the University of Sussex, Tues 16th September, 2025
Registration is now open! All welcome
This one-day conference gathers international scholars working on the intersections of print and orality in the period 1750-1870, to explore how print culture in Britain and beyond negotiated, harnessed, exploited, and regulated the powers of voice and their potentially wayward effects.
Contributions include papers and panels on:
- oral poetry and ballads
- typographical representations of voice
- muteness in fiction and print culture
- rhetorical persuasion in the French Revolution
- American magazines in the early Republic
- Working-class oracy and the struggle for the vote in Britain
The keynote address will be given by Professor Mary Fairclough (University of York) on ‘Mary Wollstonecraft: Apostrophe, Prayer and Voice’.
All welcome. Please register at Eloquent Voices: Orality in the Age of Print 1750 – 1870 | University of Sussex Online Shop
Full conference programme available here Eloquent Voices: Orality in the Age of Print, 1750-1870 : News and events : The Media, Arts and Humanities Research Institute : University of Sussex