We are pleased to announce the full programme for the inaugural Summer School to be held on 20 and 21 June 2023. The event will be held at the Department…Read More >
Concentration Camps and Kindertransport: Two stories of Jewish Refugees in Britain – film screening and Q&A
As part of the CBCP’s Annual Conference on Publishing Anti-fascism we will be screening the short film Heilig. Through interviews, the Austrian Jewish Kindertransportee Gerhard Heilig tells the story of his…Read More >
Introducing the CBCP Visiting Research Fellows for 2022-23
We are delighted to announce the two successful candidates for our Visiting Research Fellowship awards for 2022-23: Dr Silke Körber and Dr Aleksandra Wieczorkiewicz. Applications were invited from scholars looking…Read More >
CFP – CBCP 2nd Postgraduate Symposium – deadline 5 May 2023
The 2nd CBCP Postgraduate Symposium will be held on Thursday 25th of May 2023, at the University of Reading. It will mainly be an in-person event with an option for…Read More >
‘The greatest question in the world’ British Readers and Nazi Germany 1937-1940
By Dr Ellen Pilsworth, University of Reading ‘How horrible, fantastic, incredible it is, that we should be trying on gas masks here because of a quarrel in a far away…Read More >
CBCP Conference: Publishing Anti-fascism – provisional programme announced
We are delighted to release the Provisional Programme for Publishing Anti-fascism, the CBCP conference to be held on 11-12 September 2023. This international conference will bring together scholars of anti-fascist…Read More >
Kit de Waal: in conversation and in person
We are delighted to announce that we will be welcoming the author Kit de Waal to our Whiteknights Campus at the University of Reading for a very special author event….Read More >
Early notification: CBCP Summer School 2023
The Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing at the University of Reading will be holding its inaugural Summer School on 20 & 21 June this year. ‘Cultures of the book:…Read More >
New exhibition: Objects made of letters: Concrete poetry in Britain, 1963–75
Rick Poynor, with assistance from Eric Kindel, Emma Minns and Geoff Wyeth, has curated an exhibition based on material from the collection of the late Andrew Belsey, philosophy lecturer, concrete…Read More >
CFP – Bookshops: Online and On the High Street – deadline 01 March 2023
Call for papers – Bookshops: Online and On the High Street The 2nd Annual Bookselling Research Network Conference, in association with the Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing will be…Read More >
