STREAM 2: 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 2 (listed below) via MS Teams, please click Select tickets. The symposium is free to attend.

9.25 – 10.55: Stream 2: Publishing Archives (chair: Cristina De Luca)

• Monica Lucioni – A constellation of archives: on the making of Jules Laforgue’s first anthology of poems in Italian (1945) (online)
• Clara Farmer – Brand memory: the Hogarth Press and the publication of Olivia by ‘Olivia’ (1949) (in person)
• Ha Minjung –Reading Across the Atlantic: Virginia Woolf, the Yale Review, and the Construction of the American Reader (online)
• Margherita Orsi – Recovering La Tartaruga’s legacy: a journey through Milanese archives ((online)

11.15 – 12. 45: Stream 2: People’s trajectory and agency through archives (chair: Hyei Jin Kim)

• Marcus Leaver – Paul Hamlyn and Generational Change in Twentieth-Century British Publishing (in person)
• Reanna Brookes – The Archive as Practice: An Exploration of the Winifred Gill Papers (in person)
• Sophie Thompson – Crafting the Socialist Child: Arts and Crafts Pedagogy in Walter Crane’s Pothooks and Perseverance (1886) (in person)
• Giulia Pellizzatto – Global Readership, Transcultural Contexts: The Case of Daisaku Ikeda (online)
  

2.45 – 4.00: Stream 2: Print production, circulation and readers (chair: Pritha Mukherjee)

• Jessica Purdy – Circulating Knowledge: Continental Imprints in Provincial Seventeenth-Century England (in person)
• Michelle Michel – Book pirates: Villains or victims? ((in person)
• Deborah Lyons – “Swallows Perched on Barbed Wire”: Readers in South Africa’s Final Years of Apartheid (online)
  

4.00 – 5.00: Stream 2: Politics of page design (chair: Abeera Zishan)

• Angelika Wozniak – The communicative role of textbooks and guides on book design published in Poland between 1945 and 2000 in the context of socio-political changes (in person)
• Megan Patty – Revision in Print: Museum Publishing and the Production of Institutional Stance (recorded)
• Kesenia Papazova –The Materiality of the Page as a Photographic Filter in Neovintage Books (in person)