The Centre for Printing History and Culture, in association with the Baskerville Society, has put out a call for papers for a conference on the theme Prepaid printing: approaches to the study of subscribers’ lists to be held at Winterbourne House at the University of Birmingham in September 2023. The deadline for proposals is 1 […]
Booking open for Print Networks 2022
Booking is open for the 2022 Print Networks conference in Appleby-in-Westmorland on 26–27 April 2022: the theme is Around the text. The conference details and link to booking on the website of the Centre for Printing History and Culture.
Call for papers — Around the text
Proposals for papers are invited on the theme of Around the Text for a conference to be held in Appleby-in-Westmorland in Cumbria in early April 2022. The conference will consider supporting materials and activities around the design, production, and promotion of a printed text, particularly in the Anglophone world. Full details of the conference theme […]
Printing for tourists
Booking is open for the online conference A visitor attraction: printing for tourists which is to take place via Zoom on 20–21 July 2021. Full details of the conference programme and how to book are available on the website of the Centre for Printing History and Culture.
Online conference on printing
Registration is open for the one day conference on Places, spaces and the printing press: imprinting regional identities organised by the Centre for Printing History & Culture in Birmingham and the National and University Library, Ljubljana, Slovenia. It will take place online on Wednesday 24 March 2021. Details of how to book are available on […]
Conference on regional printing
A conference on Places, spaces and the printing press: imprinting regional identities will take place in March 2021 At the National and University Library, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Paper proposal should be submitted by 20 September 2020, and a selection of papers, in expanded form, will be published in a specially edited volume of the series ‘Printing […]
New date for ‘Printing for Tourists’ conference
The Print Networks / CPHC Conference ‘A visitor attraction: printing for tourists’ which was due to take place in Appleby-in-Westmoreland in July 2020 has been postponed to 20–21 July 2021. ‘Printing for tourists’ encompasses tickets, notices, leaflets, labels, folders, billheads and other throwaways, alongside books both physical and virtual, that have come to represent tourists […]
Print Networks Call for Papers
The 2020 Print Networks / CPHC Conference will take place in Appleby-in-Westmoreland, on the edge of Wainwright’s Lakeland Fells and will take as its theme ‘printing for tourists’ — tickets, notices, leaflets, labels, folders, billheads and other throwaways, alongside books both physical and virtual, that have come to represent tourists and tourism across the ages. […]
Technologies of print in Asia
A conference on the history of printing technologies in South and Southeast Asian printing history has been announced, to be held at the Royal Asiatic Society in London, on Tuesday 26 March 2019. The conference will focus on materials, processes, practices, as well as on labourers, tinkerers, entrepreneurs and other individuals in the history of […]
Poetics of print
The Poetics of Print is a one-day symposium taking place on Thursday 21 February at Winterbourne House, University of Birmingham, which brings together speakers working across a range of disciplines. For more details of the speakers and how to book, see the website of the Centre for the History of Printing and Culture.