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SUMMARY:Exhibition: Books and the People. Opening up access to books and reading #Go All In
DESCRIPTION:“I say that this revolution has been for some time overdue\, because from one aspect it is\, of course\, only part of the great change in selling policy which some have called the ‘democratisation of production’. […] Books are only just beginning to feel the influence which\, in the course of a generation\, has brought gramophone records\, silk stockings\, foreign travel\, and smoked salmon (to take four examples at random) within the reach of small purses.”\n(Margaret Cole\, Books and the People\, 1938) \nOne hundred years ago\, a group of publishers\, writers\, businesses\, and libraries were challenging who had access to books while defending the importance of reading for pleasure. In her Books and the People (1938)\, socialist Margaret Cole described the new book clubs and commercial high street libraries of the 1920s and ’30s as the “opening stages of a real revolution […] in the world of English-language book production”. \nThis exhibition looks at a moment before book-buying was possible for most people. We look at some of the changes interwar that made access to new books easier\, more convenient\, and sometimes cheaper\, helping to develop more democratic\, shared cultures of reading. We also include examples of everyday printed ephemera that book clubs and societies produced and that tell us about how access to books was encouraged and promoted. \nIt is curated by Nicola Wilson\, Sue Walker and Emma Minns and will be held in the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication\, University of Reading (Whiteknights Campus)\, RG6 6BZ. It is open from 30 March to 29 May 2026\, Monday to Wednesday only\, from 10 am to 4 pm. \nGroup visits can be made by appointment. Please email lpgdc@reading.ac.uk. \nThe exhibition is part of the National Year of Reading National Year of Reading 2026 | Go All In initiative. 2026 is the National Year of Reading\, a Department for Education scheme supported by the National Literacy Trust\, which aims to tackle a decline in reading enjoyment and reconnect people of all ages with reading as a relevant and rewarding activity. \n♦♦♦♦♦♦ \nExhibition event\nOn Thursday 30th April there will be a CBCP exhibition event from 5pm featuring talks by the curators. All are welcome. Refreshments will be provided. \nThis event will be held in the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication\, University of Reading (Whiteknights campus)\, RG6 6BZ. \n♦♦♦♦♦♦ \nPieces on display at the exhibition
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-book-cultures-and-publishing/event/exhibition-books-and-the-people-opening-up-access-to-books-and-reading-go-all-in/
LOCATION:Department of Typography & Graphic Communication\, University of Reading (Whiteknights Campus)\, 2 Earley Gate\, RG6 6BZ\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:4th CBCP Postgraduate Symposium\, 19 May 2026
DESCRIPTION:The Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing (CBCP) is pleased to announce the 4th Postgraduate Symposium will take place on Tuesday\, 19th May 2026. This will be a hybrid event and is an opportunity for PhD students and Postdoctoral researchers to present their research\, engage in discussions on book cultures and publishing\, and connect with a broader academic community within the University of Reading and beyond. \nThis year’s hybrid symposium will explore how archives can be used to reconstruct agency and cultural transmission in book and print cultures. It will be free to attend and refreshments will be provided. \nVenue: Global Study Lounge\, Edith Morley Building\, University of Reading (Whiteknights Campus) \n\nTo attend any of the Stream 1 talks online via MS Teams\, please register here.\nTo attend any of the Stream 2 talks online via MS Teams\, please register here.\nRegistering to attend the symposium in-person has now closed.\n\n9.00 – 9:20 Arrival and refreshments \n\n9.20 – 9.25 Welcome and Introduction \n\n9.25 – 10.55  \nStream 1: Archiving children’s reading cultures and publishing ecosystems (chair: Sophie Heywood) \n\nJessica Andrade-Tolentino – What makes a children’s book? Publishers’ strategies in transforming adult literature into picturebooks (online)\nAnagha Gopal – Mayil Will Not Be Quiet (about reading)!: Constructing a child’s archive of contemporary Indian children’s reading in English (online)\nDina Tuasuun – Women\, Faith\, and Children’s Publishing in Indonesia:  Decolonial Readings of Religious Book Culture (online)\nJohari Imani Murray – From Bulletin to Blueprint: Paper Trails of Change and How the CIBC Shaped Children’s Publishing Ecosystems (online)\n\nStream 2: Publishing Archives (chair: Cristina De Luca) \n\nMonica Lucioni – A constellation of archives: on the making of Jules Laforgue’s first anthology of poems in Italian (1945) (online)\nClara Farmer – Brand memory: the Hogarth Press and the publication of Olivia by ‘Olivia’ (1949) (in person)\nMinjung Ha – Reading Across the Atlantic: Virginia Woolf\, the Yale Review\, and the Construction of the American Reader (online)\nMargherita Orsi – Recovering La Tartaruga’s legacy: a journey through Milanese archives (online)\n\n\n11.00 – 11.15 Coffee break \n\n11.15 – 12. 45  \nStream 1: Archives and books in political discourse (chair: Cristina De Luca) \n\nMolly Uhlmann Lindberg – Authors as laborers and capitalists. Political self-publishing in 1970s Sweden (online)\nMeryem Selva Ince – The Social Realist Hit in 1970s Turkish Children’s Literature: Marginal Authors\, Themes and Visual Aesthetics (online)\nSharla Attala – Stitching the Past into the Present: A patchwork of memories (in person)\nArina Stoenescu – Reconstructing the agency of the tehnoredactor in Communist Romania – 1948-1989: A story that a state-socialist colophon can tell (in person)\n\nStream 2: People’s trajectory and agency through archives (chair: Hyei Jin Kim) \n\nMarcus Leaver – Paul Hamlyn and Generational Change in Twentieth-Century British Publishing (online)\nReanna Brookes – The Archive as Practice: An Exploration of the Winifred Gill Papers (in person)\nSophie Thompson – Crafting the Socialist Child: Arts and Crafts Pedagogy in Walter Crane’s Pothooks and Perseverance (1886) (in person)\nGiulia Pellizzatto – Global Readership\, Transcultural Contexts: The Case of Daisaku Ikeda  (online)\n\n\n12.45 – 1.30 Lunch \n\n1.30 – 2.30 Workshop with MERL \n\n2.30 – 2.45 Coffee break \n\n2.45 – 4.00 \nStream 1: Typography developments through the archives (chair: Abeera Zishan) \n\nHanny Imania – Transforming genre\, reconfiguring script: Javanese print culture under colonial print technology (in person)\nYuseon Park – Digital revival: inheriting the analog legacy (online)\nChandark Pradhan – Bengali chirography as a spectrum: evidence from the archives (online)\nFraser Muggeridge – Towards a History of Alternative Typesetting (in person)\n\nStream 2: Print production\, circulation and readers (chair: Pritha Mukherjee) \n\nJessica Purdy – Circulating Knowledge: Continental Imprints in Provincial Seventeenth-Century England (online)\nMichelle Michel – Book pirates: Villains or victims? (in person)\nDeborah Lyons – “Swallows Perched on Barbed Wire”: Readers in South Africa’s Final Years of Apartheid (online)\nAnamika Mohanta – Tracing the ‘Native Reader’ in 19th-Century Western India: Print\, Agency and Readership in the Case of the Bombay-Poona Native General Library (online)\n\n\n4.00 – 5.00  \nStream 1: Alternative forms of archive (chair: Nicola Wilson) \n\nElena Hueso Garcia – Materiality\, Discourse and Cultural Transmission: Contemporary Picturebooks on Migration as Archival Interventions (online)\nTreensari Ghosh – Democratized Publishing: Fanfictions as Digital Archives (online)\nDaisy Johnson – “Here is the truth as I write it”:  The representation of young authors in early to mid-twentieth century children’s literature (in person)\n\nStream 2: Politics of page design (chair: Abeera Zishan) \n\nAngelika Wozniak – The communicative role of textbooks and guides on book design published in Poland between 1945 and 2000 in the context of socio-political changes (in person)\nKsenia Papazova – The Materiality of the Page as a Photographic Filter in Neovintage Books (in person)\n\n\n5.00 – 5.15 Closing remarks \n 
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-book-cultures-and-publishing/event/4th-cbcp-postgraduate-symposium-19-may-2026/
LOCATION:Global Study Lounge\, 2nd floor\, Edith Morley Building\, University of Reading (Whiteknights campus)\, RG6 6EL\, RG6 6EL
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SUMMARY:CBCP Symposium: People in Publishing: Diversity\, Leadership and Publishing’s Futures\, 29 June 2026 
DESCRIPTION:Date: Monday 29th June 2026 \nTime: 10.00am – 5.00pm \nVenue: Henley Business School\, University of Reading (Whiteknights Campus) \nTo book tickets to attend the symposium in person or online\, click here. \n(Please note: For standard delegates\, we will charge £10 to cover a sandwich lunch\, and morning & afternoon refreshments. Students & independent researchers can attend free of charge. Online attendance is also free of charge) \nSchedule  \n10:00 – 10:05: Welcome \n\n10:05 – 10:35: Opening Address: “Building Diversity in the Media Industries”  \nJoanna Abeyie MBE – Former Director of Creative Diversity BBC\, Founder BlueMoon Consultancy  (in person) \n\n10:35 – 11:30: Panel: “Bridging the Gap: Academia and Industry in Dialogue on EDI in the Publishing Industry”\n \nModerator:  TBC \nPanel:   \n\nMelissa Carr – Lecturer in International Human Resources Management & EDI Director at World of Work Institute\nVaseem Khan – Crime Fiction author\nEmma Shercliff – Laxfield Literary agency \nAarti Kumari – The Emma Press\n\n\n11:30 –11:45: Comfort break \n\n11:45 – 1:00: Research Papers: “Geo-politics and Global Structures” \nChair:  TBC \nPanel:  \n\nGeorge Cooper & Christopher Adams (UCL) – “Exporting Exclusion: The Impact of the US Political Climate on the UK Publishing Industry” (online)\nHyei Jin Kim (University of Reading) – “Who Governs the Flow of Books?: The Legacy of the Traditional Market Agreement” (in person)\nKarishma Koshal (University of Exeter) – “The Foundations of the Anglophone Trade Publishing Industry in India” (in person)\nFrances Weightman (Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing) – “Becoming a Reluctant Gatekeeper: A Case Study of the Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing” (in person)\n\n\n1:00 – 1:45: Networking lunch \n\n1:45 – 3:15: Lightning Talks & Research Papers Parallel Session  \n\n\n\nStream 1: “Commercial Approaches to Diversifying Publishing”\nStream 2: “Networks & Institutional Power”\n\n\nBronwen Price (CEO Seren Books) – “Inclusive Commissioning: Dethroning the Gatekeepers” (in person)\nLiciane Correa (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janiero) – “The Past and Present of Freelancer Work in Book Proofreading in Brazil” (online)\n\n\nNicola Daly (University of Waikato) – “Indigenous publishing in Aotearoa New Zealand: A Case Study” (in person)\nAmanda Allen (Eastern Michigan University) – “Visible Invisibility: Women’s Professional Autonomy and U.S. Children’s Publishing\, 1919–1973″ (in person)\n\n\nAgata Mrva-Montoya (University of Sydney) – “Accessibility Champions as Diversity Leaders: Driving Publishing’s Inclusive Future” (in person)\nChrissy Taylor (University of Waikato) – “Gender and Sexual Identity in Aotearoa New Zealand: Library Acquisition Policies in Relation to LGBTQIA+ Communities in New Zealand” (online)\n\n\nMegan Farr (Bath Spa University) – “Culturally Responsive Publishing Models” (in person)\nMaria Belen Riveiro (University of Buenos Aires/University of Newcastle) – “Rethinking Bibliodiversity: the Universal Put into Question” (in person)\n\n\n\nKanupriya Dhingra (BML Mujal University) – “Beyond the Publisher: How Bookstores\, Bazaars\, and Libraries Shape Independent Publishing in Delhi ” (in person)\n\n\n\n\n3:15 – 3:30: Coffee/tea break \n\n3:30 – 4:30: Roundtable: “Digital Platforms and AI in the Future of Publishing”\n \nModerator:  TBC \nDiscussants: \n\nBasak Bak – Lecturer in Law\, Copyright and AI\nSimon Rowberry – Associate Professor of Publishing\, UCL\, Academic Director of Education for the Department of Information Studies\nJulie Cohen – Author\, PhD Candidate\, University of Reading \n\n\n4:30 – 5:00: Keynote: “Inclusive Talent Pipelines” \nProfessor Katy Shaw – Director of the UKRI/AHRC Creative Communities Programme; Professor of Publishing & Writing Northumbria University  (online) \n\n5:00: Wrap up followed by an informal CBCP social/drinks (5 – 6pm)  \n 
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-book-cultures-and-publishing/event/cbcp-symposium-people-in-publishing-diversity-leadership-and-publishings-futures/
LOCATION:Henley Business School\, University of Reading (Whiteknights campus)\, RG6 6UD
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