Leverhulme Lecture: The Arcade in Arcadia – Thomas Bewick, Children’s Books, and Rural Readers in Enlightenment England
Museum of English Rural Life 6 Redlands Road, Reading, BerkshireJoin Professor Kristin Bluemel, Leverhulme Visiting Professor at Newcastle University, as she explores the work of eighteenth-century artist, writer, and naturalist Thomas Bewick. This talk will explore the ways in...Read More >
Poetry Workshop at Reading Central Library: Embodied Imagery with Golnoosh Nourpanah
Reading Central Library Abbey Square, Reading, BerkshirePart of 'Class in Publishing and Print' ‘Her hair was like golden sunlight.’ ‘The child was quiet as a mouse.’ ‘He was caught red-handed.’ How many times have you been put...Read More >
CBCP Postgraduate Study Day Friday 1st July: Programme
The Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing (CBCP) is pleased to share the programme for next Friday's first PhD Study Day. This has been organised and convened by doctoral researchers...Read More >
Exhibition – invitation to private viewing: ‘Looking at women looking at themselves being looked at: Female representation in Charles Mozley’s work’
You are cordially invited to attend a private viewing of the exhibition Looking at women looking at themselves being looked at Female representation in Charles Mozley’s work Curated by Cătălina Zlotea...Read More >
A Room of One’s Own on the High Street: Women and Personal Bookshops, 1916-1939
Dr Matt Chambers, CBCP Research Fellow This research seminar is free and open to all. Join us in person in the Edith Morley Building, Room G74. To join via Zoom,...Read More >
Book Launch: The Women Who Invented Twentieth-Century Children’s Literature
Edith Morley G44Join us for a hybrid in-person/online event to mark the publication of The Women Who Invented Twentieth-Century Children’s Literature: Only the Best (Routledge: Children’s Literature and Culture Series), by Elizabeth West,...Read More >
Spaces of Translation: European Magazine Cultures, c. 1945-1965
Speakers: Andrew Thacker (Nottingham Trent) and Alison E. Martin (Mainz/Germersheim) This research seminar is free and open to all. Join us in person in the Edith Morley Building, Room G74....Read More >
Catherine Butler, ‘Studio Ghibli and British Children’s Literature in Japan’
This talk is part of the CBCP and Outside in World Webinar series on Children’s Literature and Translation. Join us online to hear Catherine Butler (Cardiff) talking about 'Studio Ghibli...Read More >
Anthony Glinoer, ‘Between Archives and Databases. The Archives éditoriales platform.’
Join us online to hear Anthony Glinoer (University of Sherbrooke, Quebec) talking about The Archives éditoriales platform http://archiveseditoriales.net. This event is free and open to all. Join us in person...Read More >
Valeria Illuminati, Roberta Pederzoli, and Beatrice Spallaccia, ‘The G-Book Project. Literature for children and YAs from a gender perspective: literary and translation issues’
This talk is part of the CBCP and Outside in World Webinar series on Children’s Literature and Translation and is open to all. To register to join us via Zoom...Read More >