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SUMMARY:Author event: Kit de Waal in conversation - in person/hybrid event
DESCRIPTION:In 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 better place for working-class writers. This is an in person/hybrid event. \nKit de Waal is a multi-award-winning author of short stories\, novels\, and an autobiography. My Name is Leon (2016)\, her first novel\, was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award\, longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize and won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award. It was recently televised by the BBC\, with a cast including Christopher Eccleston and Sir Lenny Henry\, who also voiced the audiobook. \nKit has a passion for getting diverse voices heard. She used some of her author advance to set up the Kit de Waal Creative Writing Scholarship at Birkbeck to help improve working-class representation in the arts. It is dedicated to supporting a budding writer from a low-income household or other marginalized backgrounds. In its first year it attracted 138 applicants: this in turn\, attracted other donations which has enabled the funding of additional scholarships. \nShe is the editor of Common People: An Anthology of Working-Class Writers (2019)\, the result of a project with Unbound and regional writing development organisations to feature working-class writers: this also involved mentoring and supporting new writers. \nHer autobiography Without Warning & Only Sometimes – Scenes from an Unpredictable Childhood published in 2022 and was a Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4. The Guardian described it as ‘A richly observed portrait of a working-class childhood and adolescence that finds magic in the mundane’. \nThis is a free in person/hybrid event but everyone attending (whether in person or online) will require a ticket from Eventbrite: click here for in person; click here for online. \nQuestions for Kit are welcome but we request they are submitted in advance by email to cbcp@reading.ac.uk by Monday 24th April\, please. This will allow Kit sufficient time to consider her answers.
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-book-cultures-and-publishing/event/meet-the-author-kit-de-waal-in-conversation-in-person-hybrid-event/
LOCATION:Van Emden Lecture Theatre\, Edith Morley Building\, Whiteknights Campus\, University of Reading\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:2nd CBCP Postgraduate Symposium
DESCRIPTION:The 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. \nPGR Symposium Programme\nThursday May 25th\, Edith Morley\, G44 \nIf you would like to attend the conference either in person or online\, please sign up here \n9.00 – 9:15 am Arrival and refreshments (provided) \n9:15 – 9: 20 am Welcome note and Introduction \n9:20 – 10:20 am Bibliophiles and readers\nVictoria Stevens (Canterbury Christchurch University\, UK)\, “Peeping through the Library Windows: bibliographical insights into the character of a Kent gentry”\nMary Grover (Former Senior Lecturer\, Sheffield Hallam University\, UK)\, “‘Something gets hold of you’: Reading for pleasure in an industrial city”\nAkshat Seth (Jawaharlal Nehru University\, India): “Attitudes to Popular Print and Contemporary Reading Practices Among Hindi Literary Academics in India” \n10:25 – 11:25 am Print and literary cultures\nIsabel Stoole (University of Reading\, UK)\, “Worker and homemaker: the characterisations of women in print production technology advertisements\, 1945–65”\nJenny Harper (Universities of Reading and Exeter\, Mid Pennine Arts\, UK)\, “How to ‘cut out all the culture ’when ‘culture is ordinary’?”\nBenjamin Bruce (University of Reading\, UK)\, “Publishing Poetry in 1922: The Nature of Popular Verse and its Post-War Demise” \n11: 25 – 11: 35 pm Coffee Break \n11:35 am – 12:15 pm Publisher’s Series\nLucia Vigutto (University of Bologna\, Italy)\, “Dragons also for children: The Italian translation of Farmer Giles of Ham by J.R.R. Tolkien”\nFatih Aşan (Boğaziçi University\, Turkey)\, “Observations About Ottoman-Turkish Publisher’s Series (1870-1900)” \n12:20 – 1:00 pm Guest Talk\nAlex Kither (Curator\, Printed Heritage Collections\, British Library) and\nDr Naomi Billingsley (Research Development Manager at the British Library)\, “Collections-based research in the British Library” \n1:00 – 2:00 pm Lunch (provided) \n2:05 – 2:45 pm Innovating the book form\nBerta Ferrer (University of Reading\, UK) “Designwriting in House of Leaves: the role of design in unconventional novels of the 21st\ncentury”\nLouisa Hunter-Bradley (King’s College London\, UK)\, “Plantin on the page: The format and visual presence of Plantin’s music publications” \n2:50 – 3:30 pm Book technologies\nSwara Shukla (University of Muenster\, Germany) “Bringing the Victorian Serial into the Digital Age”\nAngelica Cremascoli (University of Milan\, Italy)\, “Optical-multimedia publishing in Italy: the decade of the ‘round’ book and the new spaces of knowledge (1988-1998)” \n3:30 – 3:40 pm Afternoon refreshments (provided) \n3:45 – 4: 25 pm Print Technologies\nRing Yong (University of Reading\, UK)\, “Looking at Chinese woodblocks: A revised account of the technology\, its imprints\, and production costs”\nClaudia Rifaterra Amenós (University of Reading\, UK)\, “Letterpress Political Posters from the Spanish Second Republic and the Spanish Civil War (1931-1939) from the CRAI\nCollection\, University of Barcelona” \n4:30 pm – 5:10 pm Illustrated books\nKatharine Smales (University College London\, UK) “Perry Starlight\, Space Explorer: Creating a picturebook to explain research to young\nchildren”\nStephanie Montalti (St. John’s University\, US)\, “Illustrating Cinderella as a Reader: Experimental Front Matter & Metafiction in Walter Crane’s Cinderella’s Picture Book” \nThe symposium will be an occasion for PhD students and Postdoctoral researchers to showcase their research while engaging with the wider community of researchers within the CBCP. No costs to attend: lunch and refreshments will be provided. \nEnquiries should be sent to: Andrea Romanzi and Pritha Mukherjee. \nDelegates may also like to register to attend the Marina Warner talk on ‘Archives\, history and memory in memoir writing’ which is taking place on the same evening\, as an in person/hybrid event. For more information please click here.
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-book-cultures-and-publishing/event/2nd-cbcp-postgraduate-symposium/
LOCATION:University of Reading\, Whiteknights Campus\, Edith Morley\, G44
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SUMMARY:Archives\, history and memory in memoir writing - a talk by Marina Warner
DESCRIPTION:Writer 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 and imagination as well as writing and objects to recreate the extraordinary world of her childhood. [Cover design by Sophie Herxheimer.] \nShe has recently presented some of her family papers to the University book and publishing collections\, relating to her father’s work in establishing a branch of WH Smith’s in Cairo after the second World War. A selection of artefacts from the WH Smith archives held by the University of Reading will be on display. \nThis event is run in partnership with the Museum of English Rural Life (MERL).  \nDame Professor Marina Warner CH\, DBE\, FRSL\, FBA is a writer and academic. Her works include novels\, short stories and studies of art\, myths\, symbols and fairy tales. She is a Professor of English and Creative Writing at Birkbeck\, University of London. \nThis will be an in person/online hybrid event with live streaming via Zoom to remote individuals who have pre-registered to attend. The video files of the talk will be published online after the event. \nA selection of artefacts from the WH Smith archives held by the University of Reading will be on display and attendees will have the chance to view this from 5.30pm with refreshments available. The talk will start at 6.00pm. \nTo book tickets to attend the event in person at the Museum of English Rural Life please click here \nTo book tickets for the online event (which covers the talk only) please click here \nThe event will finish at 7.00pm.
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-book-cultures-and-publishing/event/archives-history-and-memory-in-memoir-writing-a-talk-by-marina-warner/
LOCATION:Museum of English Rural Life\, 6 Redlands Road\, Reading\, Berkshire\, RG1 5EX\, United Kingdom
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