SHARP conference 2024 – registration fees
University of Reading Reading, BerkshireWe are pleased to announce the registration fees for SHARP 2024 which is to be held at the University of Reading from 1-5 July. Registration will go live after Easter,...Read More >
Typography Working Seminar: research with collections, 22–26 July 2024
Spend a week immersed in typographic collections, looking at methodologies for effectively working with and interpreting primary sources, including unconventional material, ephemera, and digital evidence. We will look at the...Read More >
CBCP x OIW webinar series ‘Explorations in Translation for Children’ El Cuento Fantasma/ The Invisible Story
The Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing in partnership with Outside in World, the organisation dedicated to promoting and exploring world literature and children’s books in translation, are delighted to announce...Read More >
“Economic, and Not Political”: The Beginnings of the Traditional Market Agreement
Room 127, Edith Morley Building, University of Reading, RG6 6ELSpeaker: Dr Hyei Jin Kim - CBCP Visiting Research Fellow This research seminar is a hybrid event & is free & open to all To join us in person come...Read More >
Tracing the Genealogy of the Kenyan Political Novel – a Case for the Nationalist Autobiography as its Genesis
Speaker: Dr Billy Kahora – Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Bristol This research seminar will be held online & is free & open to all. To...Read More >
Unruly Books: Translating hybrid picturebooks for teens and adults
The Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing in partnership with Outside in World, the organisation dedicated to promoting and exploring world literature and children’s books in translation, are delighted to announce...Read More >
Theatre Translation from an Archival Perspective: Franca Rame and Surtitles
Room G74, Edith Morley Building, University of Reading, RG6 6ELSpeaker: Dr Anna Saroldi - Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Durham This research seminar is a hybrid event & is free & open to all To join...Read More >
Historic Presses Workshop, 16 December 2024
Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, University of Reading (Whiteknights Campus), 2 Earley Gate, RG6 6BZWe invite you to join us to celebrate the launch of the Historic Presses Workshop at the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication at the University of Reading. The launch...Read More >
Translations’ copyright/translators’ copyright: a history of power imbalance in the Italian book trade
Room 124, Edith Morley building, University of Reading (Whiteknights campus), RG6 6ELSpeaker: Anna Lanfranchi – Teaching Fellow in Translation & Transcultural Studies & Italian at the University of Warwick This research seminar is a hybrid event and is free & open...Read More >
Type, technology and translation: A case study of Chinese metal type
Room T4, Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, University of Reading (Whiteknights Campus), RG6 6BZSpeaker: Xunchang Cheng - CBCP Visiting Research Fellow This research seminar is a hybrid event and is free & open to all. To join us in person come along to...Read More >