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 >
Book launch: Sophie Heywood’s “Children’s Publishing in Cold War France: Hachette in the Age of Surveillance and Control”
Room 125, Edith Morley Building, University of ReadingJoin us in person or online on Monday, 24 March 2025 for the launch event for Sophie Heywood’s new monograph: Children’s Publishing in Cold War France: Hachette in the Age...Read More >
The Education of Things: Mechanical Literacy in British Children’s Literature, 1762–1860
Room T4, Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, University of Reading University of ReadingSpeaker: Dr Elizabeth Hoiem – Assistant Professor, Illinois School of Information Sciences This research seminar is a hybrid event & is free & open to all To join us in...Read More >
3rd CBCP Postgraduate Symposium, 29 May 2025
Global Studies Lounge & Room 227, Edith Morley Building, University of Reading (Whiteknights campus), RG6 6ELThe 3rd CBCP Postgraduate Symposium will be held at the University of Reading on Thursday May 29th, in the Global Studies Lounge & Room 227 in the Edith Morley Building....Read More >
Typographic Landscape Research Network (TLRN) seminar, 2 June
Room T4, Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, University of Reading (Whiteknights Campus), RG6 6BZYou are cordially invited to join the upcoming Typographic Landscape Research Network (TLRN) seminar on Monday 2nd June, at 6pm UK time: The technology-supported exploration of linguistic landscapes with Lingscape with Dr...Read More >
CBCP workshop: Re-vision: On re-publishing & re-design, 1 July 2025
Room T4, Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, University of Reading (Whiteknights Campus), RG6 6BZThis workshop brings together creatives and practitioners involved in the art and business of republishing to explore the social, artistic, political and economic dynamics of bringing previously published texts back...Read More >
Book launch: Nicola Wilson’s “Recommended! The influencers who changed how we read”
Join us or online on Tuesday, 15 July 2025 (4pm-5pm BST) for the launch event for Nicola Wilson’s new monograph: Recommended! The influencers who changed how we read (Holland House...Read More >
CBCP Modernist Editing Symposium, 23 September 2025
Room T4, Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, University of Reading (Whiteknights Campus), RG6 6BZThis symposium brings together leading scholars and practitioners in modernist textual criticism and scholarly editing. Organised by Dr Buxi Duan and Lawrence Jones at the Centre for Book Cultures and...Read More >
CBCP x OIW webinar: Building a Global Youth Literature Collection 101
'Explorations in Translation for Children' is a webinar series co-organised by The Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing (University of Reading) in partnership with Outside in World, the organisation dedicated to promoting and...Read More >
Panel discussion: Bernardine Evaristo in Translation, 5th November 2025
Global Study Lounge, 2nd floor, Edith Morley Building, University of Reading (Whiteknights campus), RG6 6ELOn 6 November 2025, the University of Reading will host an International Symposium on the work of Booker Prize-winning author, Bernardine Evaristo. It will be the first academic symposium dedicated...Read More >