CFP - "Reading and Writing from Below: Exploring the Margins of Modernity"

CALL FOR PAPERS Reading and Writing from Below: Exploring the Margins of Modernity 20-22 August, 2014 Helsinki, Finland Papers are invited which seek to contribute to the study of the social history of literacy and its connection to the advent of modernity. Modernity is here understood to have taken place anytime from the 17th to the 20th centuries, depending on the context. Literacy is meant not just as the ability to read and write but rather as the totality of processes and practices invol..