An update on what we’ve been up to since launching last November and our plans for this coming year:

Some updates: 

-: Since launching in 2019, we have now become a University Interdisciplinary Research Centre – this means we have some start-up funding this coming year and have just announced some internal Early Careers and other staff Fellowships (to support grant writing and bids)

-: We have a new management board (with reps from Henley Business School, ECRs, and all of our departments), in addition to our advisory board. For the management board members see: https://research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-book-cultures-and-publishing/people/ 

-: The Edinburgh Companion to Women in Publishing, 1900-2000 has been signed off by Edinburgh University Press – this includes many contributors from our Women in Publishing event, summer 2019  

 

Events coming up:

-: New: CBCP Monthly research coffee and chats (drop-in – open to all): last Thursday of the month 4-5pm, starting Thursday 24th September on microsoft teams

https://teams.microsoft.com/meetingOptions/?organizerId=09db04ce-8476-4deb-a404-56b29cec4336&tenantId=4ffa3bc4-ecfc-48c0-9080-f5e43ff90e5f&threadId=19_meeting_ODBjOWNmODgtNmY5MS00ODllLWFjOWMtM2UzOGIxYzNjNmY1@thread.v2&messageId=0&language=en-GB

 

-: Autumn term research seminars: 

Dr Rebecca Bullard (UoR, Eng Lit)

Paper monuments: the obituary as memorial and archive in eighteenth-century England 

Week 5, Thursday 29th October, 5-6pm

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_NGQ3MzI3ZDgtZGQ3Yy00NTQ5LThlZTEtYzMyMGVjZmQ3MTMy%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%224ffa3bc4-ecfc-48c0-9080-f5e43ff90e5f%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%2209db04ce-8476-4deb-a404-56b29cec4336%22%7d

  

Dr Marrisa Joseph (UoR, HBS) 

Book launch: Victorian Literary Businesses: The Management and Practices of the British Publishing Industry (Palgrave Macmillan)

Week 7, Thursday 12th November (time TBC) 

 

Joint seminar with Outside in World

Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp, WorldKidLit, translator from Arabic, German and Russian

Diversity and translation in children’s literature [exact title TBC]

Date and time TBC

Other events:

-: Spring term workshops with Henley Business School and Typography (Covid permitting)

-: Publishing and Printing Class conference, with public events in Reading Public Library (rescheduled) for summer 2021

-: Reading Woolf in Europe, organised by Dr Elisa Bolchi (EU Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, 2019-21) 24-26 June 2021