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 >
CBCP x OIW Webinar: Publishing Children’s Books in the Russia-Ukraine War: The Role of Translations
CBCP x OIW webinar '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...Read More >
Global Perspectives on Lithographic Printing Symposium, 5-6 March 2026
Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, University of Reading (Whiteknights Campus), 2 Earley Gate, RG6 6BZBuilding on Michael Twyman’s pioneering scholarship, this symposium will explore lithography as a truly global medium. It will consider lithography’s circulation across borders and oceans, its adaptation to diverse linguistic,...Read More >
Book launch: The Bloomsbury Handbook of Global Typography, 5 March
Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, University of Reading (Whiteknights Campus), 2 Earley Gate, RG6 6BZThe Bloomsbury Handbook of Global Typography takes the broadest possible view of typography, defining it as ‘design for reading’. It considers all kinds of reading matter and visual communication systems;...Read More >
CBCP x OIW webinar: Arabic Young Adult Literature in Translation, 23 April
CBCP x OIW webinar: Arabic Young Adult Literature in Translation, in Conversation with Sawad Hussain, Susanne Abou Ghaida and Marcia Lynx Qualey. 23rd April 2026, 5pm-6.30pm UK time. Online only....Read More >
CBCP seminar: ‘It is a worthy project, but […] the public is satiated’: Publishing Holocaust Testimonies from East-Central Europe, 14 May
Room 127, Edith Morley Building, University of Reading, RG6 6ELSpeaker: Dr Joanna Rzepa - Senior Lecturer, Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies, University of Essex This research seminar is a hybrid event & is free & open to...Read More >