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SUMMARY:Expanding the design canon: fresh perspectives on women in type and publishing
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to collaborate with the St Bride Foundation to celebrate recent contributions to the field of graphic design history\, which seek to shake established narratives to expand the design canon. Our panel of speakers will share their thoughts on the imperative to reconsider women’s depiction in received design histories\, and will highlight some past and present contributions by women to the fields of type\, graphic design and publishing. The evening will also feature the launch of an exciting new website comprising a visualisation of the findings of the ‘Women in Type’ Leverhulme Trust funded project. \n Invited Guest Speakers: \n Martha Scotford\n‘Research and Distribution: What Worked for Me’ \nBriar Levit\n‘Reorienting Approaches to Disseminating Design Histories’ \nRathna Ramanathan\n‘Tara Books: Working with Marginalised Voices Across Cultures’ \n‘Women in Type’ project speakers:\nFiona Ross\, Alice Savoie & Mathieu Triay\n‘Women in Type: highlighting the contribution of women to type history \nOn-line event via Zoom.   Book on url below
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-book-cultures-and-publishing/event/expanding-the-design-canon-fresh-perspectives-on-women-in-type-and-publishing/
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SUMMARY:PiCoBoo: A Research Project and an Open-Access Database
DESCRIPTION:Dr Francesca Tancini\, University of Newcastle \nPiCoBoo: a research project and an open-access database \nThis online event is free and open to all. Please register your interest to receive the Zoom link here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/181636629047 \nThe PiCoBoo project aims to assess the significance of 19th-century European picturebooks\, printed in colour for children\, as a catalyst for major cultural and social changes. \nIt makes accessible a large corpus of picturebooks\, so far dispersed across countries and institutions\, only partially retrievable through local catalogues\, not always correctly described and in a not-uniformed way. The database now provides almost 600 books\, with hundreds of digitised images included and not retrievable elsewhere on the web.  \nPiCoBoo project has been hosted by the Children’s Literature Unit at Newcastle University\, in partnership with Seven Stories\, The National Centre for Children’s Books\, and with the Victoria and Albert Museum\, London.
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-book-cultures-and-publishing/event/picoboo-a-research-project-and-an-open-access-database/
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SUMMARY:Tracing the Nigerian Civil War through Heinemann's African Writers Series archives: an undergraduate research project and its afterlife
DESCRIPTION:Dr Sue Walsh and Ms Temiloluwa Ogdugbesan \nTracing the Nigerian Civil War through Heinemann’s African Writers Series archives: an undergraduate research project and its afterlife \nThis online event is free and open to all. Please register your interest to receive the Zoom link here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/182683369877 \nAs is well known\, Heinemann Educational Books’ African Writers Series was particularly significant for the development of postcolonial literature in Africa and when the series was first established in 1962\, Nigerian authors\, including its editorial adviser Chinua Achebe\, were among its most significant contributors. But\, when in 1967\, civil war broke out as the south-eastern part of Nigeria (Biafra) attempted to secede from the rest of the country\, Heinemann was left in a potentially difficult position; publishing a significant number of authors from the secessionist side of the conflict (including Achebe himself) whilst trying to maintain its offices in the Federal Republic of Nigeria. \nThis summer I supervised an undergraduate research project funded by the University of Reading\, in which a second-year student\, Temiloluwa Odugbesan\, conducted research into where and how the civil war was discussed in the papers of the publishers (held in the Heinemann archives at the University of Reading’s Special Collections) during the civil war period (1967-70). The purpose of the project was two-fold: 1) to conduct some initial research that would support my longer term research into how Heinemann handled the implications of the civil war for its business in Nigeria; 2) to introduce undergraduate students and others not familiar with the AWS archives to them\, through the production of a short series of blogs and an online exhibition to be hosted on the University of Reading’s Special Collections website.  \nThis is the story of that research project\, what Temiloluwa found and how she put together an engaging set of blogs and a fascinating online exhibition intended to introduce people to some of the greats of Nigerian literature\, to the African Writers Series Archives\, and to give some brief background to the civil war and its implications for the publishers at Heinemann and their authors. \nSue Walsh \nI’m a lecturer in the Department of English Literature at the University of Reading. My original specialism is in children’s literature and theory and I am a member of the Graduate Centre for International Research in Childhood: Literature\, Culture\, Media\, and I have published a monograph in this area (Kipling’s Children’s Literature: Language\, Identity and Constructions of Childhood\, was published in 2010 by Ashgate) \nMore recently however\, having been born in New Bussa in north-western Nigeria in 1967\, I have always been interested in Nigerian literature and particularly in the literature of the civil war period. I teach a third year module in Nigerian prose literature (from Achebe to Adichie) and have become more and more engrossed in archival work\, looking into what Heinemann’s papers can tell us about this period and its impact on the authors and publishers. \nTemiloluwa Odugbesan \nI’m a current 3rd Year Spanish and Economics BA student and\, during the summer of my second year\, I undertook a unique research project ‘Tracing the Nigerian Civil war through Heinemann’s African Writers Series’. \nMy name is Temiloluwa and I am one of the Nigerian speakers for this event\, which you may have been able to tell by my devastatingly wonderful name. I look forward to sharing my research project with you because not only is it relevant but also because the African Writers Series holds a special place in my heart as it celebrates Nigerian literature alongside many other great works. Growing up I have always appreciated literature and to explore it from an indigenous perspective this past summer has been amazing\, you truly get to see how every writer has their story. \nFurthermore\, through understanding the context this adds to the ambience and feel of the writers – more to come in the talk!
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-book-cultures-and-publishing/event/tracing-the-nigerian-civil-war-through-heinemanns-african-writers-series-archives-an-undergraduate-research-project-and-its-afterlife/
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SUMMARY:David King: Authoring the Visual Narrative by Design
DESCRIPTION:Professor Rick Poynor \nDavid King: Authoring the Visual Narrative by Design \nThis event is free and open to all. This research seminar will be a hybrid event\, taking place on the University of Reading campus\, Edith Morley Building Room G74 and online. Please register your interest to receive the Zoom link here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/182700621477 \nDavid King (1942-2016) occupies an unusual position in British graphic design and publishing. At the Sunday Times Magazine\, where he worked for 10 years\, he was both a designer and a visual journalist\, developing\, researching and sometimes photographing his own stories. In 1972\, he co-authored his first book\, about Trotsky\, and he went on to build up a world-class private collection of graphics and photographs from the Russian revolutionary period (now owned by Tate)\, which he used in his own work. As an expert visual researcher with an ever-developing command of the subject\, he designed and authored a range of catalogues and books about Russian and Soviet history\, among them The Commissar Vanishes (1997)\, Ordinary Citizens (2003) and Red Star Over Russia (2009). King was a leading example of “the designer as author”\, able to conceive and construct visual narratives that would never be attempted by text-led historians or designers who lacked his deep historical knowledge. This talk will trace the development of King’s visual practice as an author\, consider the visual signature he derived from constructivism\, and assess the combination of visual and editorial skills that enabled his publishing projects. What are the implications of King’s body of work for a more complex form of visual authorship? \nRick Poynor is Professor of Design and Visual Culture at the University of Reading. He was the founding editor of Eye\, the international review of graphic design\, and co-founder of the Design Observer website. His most recent books are David King: Designer\, Activist\, Visual Historian (Yale University Press\, 2020) and National Theatre Posters: A Design History (Unit Editions\, 2017). His other books include Obey the Giant: Life in the Image World (2001)\, No More Rules: Graphic Design and Postmodernism (2003) and Jan van Toorn: Critical Practice (2008). Occasional Papers will publish Graphic Cultures\, his fourth volume of essays\, in 2022.
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