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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. \nThere will be a CBCP exhibition event on Thursday 30th April 5-7pm. More information to follow soon. \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:CBCP x OIW webinar: Arabic Young Adult Literature in Translation\, 23 April
DESCRIPTION:The webinar series ‘Explorations in Translation for Children’ is co-organised by The Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing in partnership with Outside in World\, the organisation dedicated to exploring and promoting children’s books in translation. \n23rd April 2026\, 5pm-6.30pm UK time. Online only. To join via MS Teams\, please register here. \nArabic Young Adult Literature in Translation: in conversation with translators\, advocates and scholars of Arabic-language writing for young audiences\, Sawad Hussain\, Susanne Abou Ghaida and Marcia Lynx Qualey. Despite a huge\, diverse base of speakers and vibrant publishing industries\, relatively little Arabic-language literature is available in translation to readers of English. This is particularly true of books for children and young adults. \nDrawing on many collective years of experience in the field\, our speakers will talk about what kind of Arabic-language YA is getting translated into English\, who is translating and publishing these works\, and what might be behind some of these trends. They will offer us a window into the scouting and pitching processes\, discussing the specific challenges and opportunities that they face in translating children’s books from Arabic to English. We will learn about advocacy initiatives such as ArabKidLitNow! and the Bila Hudood digital literary festival\, hear about what titles they have translated recently\, and what they are hoping to translate next. \nSpeakers: \nSawad Hussain is a PEN Award-winning translator from Arabic. She has been shortlisted for The Warwick Prize for Women in Translation\, the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize and the National Book Award for Translation\, and longlisted for the Moore Prize in Human Rights Writing\, among others. A former co-chair of the Translators’ Association in the UK\, Sawad has also served as a judge for the Palestine Book Awards and the 2023 National Translation Award. She has run translation workshops under the auspices of Shadow Heroes\, Africa Writes\, Shubbak Festival\, the Yiddish Book Center\, the British Library and the National Centre for Writing. In 2024\, she became the first translator-in-residence for Wasafiri\, and was the Spring 2025 translator-in-residence at PIIRS\, Princeton University. \nMarcia Lynx Qualey is a writer\, publisher\, editor\, translator\, and speaker. She is the founder of ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly\, for which she won an Ottaway Award for the Promotion of International Literature in 2024. Her personal focus is on translated literature for young readers\, including YA\, middle grade\, and chapter books. Her most recent is a co-translation — with Sawad Hussain — of Maria Daadouch’s I Want Golden Eyes. \nSusanne Abou Ghaida is a researcher specialised in Arabic children’s and adolescent literature. She has a PhD from the University of Glasgow\, and her doctoral research was on the contemporary Arabic adolescent novel. From 2023 to 2025\, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Aix-Marseille University\, where she was carrying out research on The 13 Devils\, an Arab espionage/adventure series for adolescents. She has written on a number of subjects\, including multicultural picture books; disability; Arabic adolescent literature and reading response. She is currently the Vice President of the Young Adult Studies Association and Senior Editor of the International Journal of Young Adult Literature.
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-book-cultures-and-publishing/event/cbcp-x-oiw-webinar-arabic-young-adult-literature-in-translation-23-april/
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SUMMARY:Break Through Blocks and Get Published\, 13 May
DESCRIPTION:This is a rare opportunity to spend time with a novelist and an editor\, hearing from them about what it takes to break through creative blocks – and get your work published. \nThis event will be held online via MS Teams on 13 May 2026 from 3pm-5pm & is free to attend\, but you need to register here. \nDylan Morrison has known he wanted to be a writer since roughly age five. His fanfiction\, which he’s been posting online for nearly two decades\, has been translated into more than fifteen languages and read by millions across the globe. A queer trans man himself\, Dylan has a particular passion for telling stories about complex\, layered queer characters\, and for depicting those characters finding joy\, self-acceptance\, and love. \nDylan is based in Cleveland in a home with too many books for anyone to read in a lifetime\, and a frankly excessive amount of jam. His novels Fall Into You and Recipe for Trouble are available now\, and his third book – Second Helpings – will be published on 21st May 2026. \nHannah Bond is a freelance editor of commercial fiction. Previously\, she has worked in-house for major traditional and digital publishers including Orion\, Hodder & Stoughton\, Bookouture\, and Amazon. In a former life\, she trained as a chef. \nWe’ll hear from Dylan and Hannah about what you can do right now to make your best work and find routes into publication. There will be illuminating conversation\, and plenty of time to ask questions.
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-book-cultures-and-publishing/event/break-through-blocks-and-get-published-13-may/
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SUMMARY:CBCP seminar: ‘It is a worthy project\, but […] the public is satiated’: Publishing Holocaust Testimonies from East-Central Europe\, 14 May
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr Joanna Rzepa – Senior Lecturer\, Department of Literature\, Film\, and Theatre Studies\, University of Essex\n \nThis research seminar is a hybrid event & is free & open to all \n\nTo join us in person come along to Room 127\, Edith Morley Building\, University of Reading (Whiteknights campus)\, RG6 6EL\nTo join via MS Teams\, please register here\n\nIn this talk\, Dr Joanna Rzepa will examine the translation and publishing history of Holocaust testimonies from East-Central Europe. Exploring the production and circulation of selected survivor narratives since World War II until the fall of the Iron Curtain\, she will interrogate British and American publishers’ agendas and editorial practices\, which she situates within the broader context of the cultural politics of the Cold War. \nThe talk will consider censorship regimes that shaped the construction and circulation of testimonial narratives during the Cold War\, paying particular attention to the changing political and historical status of the Holocaust in East-Central Europe and globally. It will also bring to light cases of complex publishing trajectories of narratives such as Mary Berg’s Warsaw Ghetto Diary (1945)\, which – while originally written in Polish – only exist in various translations\, retranslations\, and backtranslations as the original source texts have never been published and\, in some cases\, are no longer extant. \nAbout our speaker:\nDr Joanna Rzepa is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Literature\, Film\, and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex and a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow. Her research interests include translation history\, Holocaust writing\, and publishing studies. \n 
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-book-cultures-and-publishing/event/cbcp-seminar-it-is-a-worthy-project-but-the-public-is-satiated-publishing-holocaust-testimonies-from-east-central-europe-14-may/
LOCATION:Room 127\, Edith Morley Building\, University of Reading\, RG6 6EL\, 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) \nThe programme for the day will follow soon.
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    \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\nHyei Jin Kim – University of Reading\nKarishma Koshal – University of Exeter\nFrances Weightman – Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing\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\nLiciane Correa – Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janiero\n\n\nNicola Daly – University of Waikato\nAmanda Allen – Eastern Michigan University\n\n\nSwara Shukla – Independent Researcher\nChrissy Taylor – University of Waikato\n\n\nAgata Mrva-Montoya – University of Sydney\nMaria Belen Riveiro – University of Buenos Aires/University of Newcastle\n\n\nMegan Farr – Bath Spa University\nKanupriya Dhingra – BML Mujal University\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 TBC\, 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  \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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