STREAM 1: 4th CBCP Postgraduate Symposium, 19th May 2026 (ONLINE ATTENDANCE)

The Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing (CBCP) is pleased to announce the 4th Postgraduate Symposium will take place on Tuesday, 19th May 2026. To access the panels in Stream 1 (listed below) via MS Teams, please click Select tickets. The symposium is free to attend.

9.20 – 9.25: Welcome and Introduction

9.25 – 10.55: Stream 1: Archiving children’s reading cultures and publishing ecosystems (chair: Sophie Heywood)

• Jessica Andrade-Tolentino – What makes a children's book? Publishers' strategies in transforming adult literature into picturebooks (online)
• Anagha Gopal – Mayil Will Not Be Quiet (about reading)!: Constructing a child’s archive of contemporary Indian children’s reading in English (online)
• Dina Tuasuun – Women, Faith, and Children’s Publishing in Indonesia: Decolonial Readings of Religious Book Culture (online)
• Johari Imani Murray – From Bulletin to Blueprint: Paper Trails of Change and How the CIBC Shaped Children’s Publishing Ecosystems (online)

11.15 – 12. 45: Stream 1: Archives and books in political discourse (chair: Cristina De Luca)

• Molly Uhlmann Lindberg – Authors as laborers and capitalists. Political self-publishing in 1970s Sweden (online)
• Meryem Selva Ince – The Social Realist Hit in 1970s Turkish Children’s Literature: Marginal Authors, Themes and Visual Aesthetics (online)
• Sharla Attala – ‘Stitching the Past into the Present: A patchwork of memories’ (in person)
• Arina Stoenescu – Reconstructing the agency of the tehnoredactor in Communist Romania – 1948-1989: A story that a state-socialist colophon can tell (in person)

2.45 – 4.00: Stream 1: Typography developments through the archives (chair: Abeera Zishan)

• Hanny Imania – Transforming genre, reconfiguring script: Javanese print culture under colonial print technology (in person)
• Yuseon Park – Digital revival: inheriting the analog legacy (online)
• Chandark Pradhan – Bengali chirography as a spectrum: evidence from the archives (online)
• Fraser Muggeridge – Towards a History of Alternative Typesetting (in person)

4.00 – 5.00: Stream 1: Alternative forms of archive (chair: Cristina De Luca)

• Elena Hueso Garcia – Materiality, Discourse and Cultural Transmission: Contemporary Picturebooks on Migration as Archival Interventions (online)
• Treensari Ghosh – Democratized Publishing: Fanfictions as Digital Archives (online)
• Daisy Johnson – “Here is the truth as I write it”: The representation of young authors in early to mid-twentieth century children’s literature (in person)

5.00 – 5.15: Closing remarks