Esmaeil Haddadian-Moghaddam, ‘Cold Books in Hot Lands: Public and Academic Discourse on Franklin Book Programs (1952-1978)’
This online seminar will be presented by Esmaeil Haddadian-Moghaddam, recently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions research fellow at the Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands. This event is free and open to all. To register...Read More >
Author event: Kit de Waal in conversation – in person/hybrid event
Van Emden Lecture Theatre, Edith Morley Building, Whiteknights Campus, University of ReadingIn conversation with Shelley Harris, Creative Writing programme director, Kit will be discussing her writings - both fiction and memoir - and the impact she's had in making publishing a...Read More >
2nd CBCP Postgraduate Symposium
University of Reading, Whiteknights Campus, Edith Morley, G44The 2nd CBCP Postgraduate Symposium will be held at the University of Reading. It will mainly be an in-person event with an option for remote presentation and attendance. PGR Symposium...Read More >
Archives, history and memory in memoir writing – a talk by Marina Warner
Museum of English Rural Life 6 Redlands Road, Reading, BerkshireWriter and academic Dame Professor Marina Warner will discuss drawing on archives and the interweaving of history and memoir-writing. In her memoir ‘Inventory of a Life Mislaid’, Warner uses memory...Read More >
CBCP Summer School – Cultures of the book: lithography, consumption, reading
University of Reading, Whiteknights Campus, Edith Morley, G44The Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing at the University of Reading has released the full programme for their inaugural Summer School to be held on 20 and 21 June 2023....Read More >
Multisensory translation for children: Mirror by Jeannie Baker as a soundscape audiobook
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...Read More >
Bookshops Online and On the High Street
University of Reading, London Road CampusThe 2nd Annual Bookselling Research Network Conference, in association with the Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing, 3rd-4th July 2023 at the University of Reading, UK. To register for in-person...Read More >
Balam and Lluvia’s House: Translating Poetry for Children
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 >
Publishing Anti-fascism, CBCP annual conference, 11-12 September 2023
We are delighted to announce the Provisional Programme for our conference on Publishing Anti-fascism. This international conference will bring together scholars of anti-fascist publishing activity in the twentieth and twenty-first...Read More >
Up in Arms: posters for protest, solidarity, engagement and action
Department of Typography & Graphic Communication University of ReadingUp in Arms has been curated to align with our annual conference, ‘Publishing Anti-fascism’ convened and organised by Ellen Pilsworth. The exhibition includes material from the collection of twentieth-century posters...Read More >