We’re delighted to announced that booking for this year’s SHARP conference is now open with thanks to our colleagues at Venue Reading. Please follow the link to our registration page…Read More >
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Hyei Jin Kim – CBCP Visiting Research Fellow
Hyei Jin Kim holds a DPhil in English from the University of Oxford. She researches the place of culture in international organisations such as PEN International and UNESCO and the…Read More >
Xunchang Cheng – CBCP Visiting Research Fellow
Xunchang Cheng is a multilingual typeface designer, researcher, documentary director and exhibitions curator. His current research primarily focuses on exploring the evolution of Chinese typeforms up to the 20th century…Read More >
Billy Kahora – CBCP Visiting Research Fellow
Dr Billy Kahora is a writer from Kenya and a Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Bristol. He has written a non-fiction novella titled The True Story Of…Read More >
Laurence Talairach – CBCP Visiting Research Fellow
Laurence Talairach is a Professor of Victorian Literature at the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès and an associate researcher at the Alexandre-Koyré Center for the History of Science and Technology (Paris)….Read More >
CBCP Visiting Research Fellowships open for 2023-4
We are pleased to invite applications for 3 funded Visiting Research Fellowships to scholars looking to conduct research and shape a new project drawing on the University of Reading’s Archives…Read More >
SHARP Call for Papers now out
The SHARP call for papers is now available on our Events page for the 2024 conference. Logo designed by student Clara Fidler-Brown (Typography & Graphic Communication). Abstracts are due early…Read More >
Abeera Zishan
PhD project: Reading Urdu on the internet: Lahori Nastaʿlīq as a case study for enabling digital parity across global scripts Funding: SWWDTP2-funded Supervisors: Prof Gerry Leonidas (University of Reading) and…Read More >
Cristina De Luca
PhD project: How do inter-firm circulation agreements affect authors’ reception in the publishing field? The Einaudi-Mondadori agreements of 1957 and 1967 Email: c.deluca@pgr.reading.ac.uk Funding: SWW-DTP Supervisors: Professor Daniela La Penna,…Read More >
Typodiversity 01: exploring the Arabic script world
CBCP is collaborating with Typodiversity, an open, participatory event series combining talks and workshops on the intersection of research and practice in typography and type design. Our agenda raises issues…Read More >