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Dear Design-History list (with apologies for cross-posting), The deadline for registering for CentreCHoP's<http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/info/125046/the_centre_for_the_comparative_history_of_print> conference Holding / Held by the Book is midnight this Friday 24th June. The conference itself takes place in the Treasures of the Brotherton Gallery, University of Leeds, UK on Friday 1 July 2016. Registration for this one-day conference costs £10 and includes refreshments, lunch and a wine reception. You can register online here: http://store.leeds.ac.uk/browse/product.asp?compid=1&modid=1&catid=719 We have 18 excellent papers in the programme<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JeJLc0lP52DAa5gKyoDxw1mLJYpgC59BLIx7T9h416A/edit?usp=sharing> and a keynote on 'Books and the Human' by Sheena Calvert, philosopher, writer, designer and artist (University of the Arts London). Holding / Held By The Book Treasures of the Brotherton Gallery, University of Leeds, 1 July 2016 9:30-9:45 Opening remarks, Sheppard Room, Treasures of the Brotherton Gallery 9:45-11:00 Panel Session #1 Holding the Book 1 (Sheppard Room) Tim Mosely, 'Holding the book; touch in the reception and evaluation of an artefact' Blair Coffey, 'The Body as Archive: The Enduring Metaphor of the Genome as Book' Beholden to the Book (1.08 Parkinson) Simon Popple, 'The Fluid Image: The Photo album as sacred text' Fozia Bora, 'The book as a 'museum of texts': medieval Islamic book culture as revealed in a rare Arabic chronicle of the 15th century' 11:00-11:30 Tea / Coffee 11:30-12:45 Panel Session #2 Continuities of the Book (Sheppard Room) John McDowall, 'From book to book: artists' books as auto-reflexive practice' Angie Butler, 'Gripped: The Press, the Printer, the Artist's Book and its Reader' Illustrating the Book (1.08 Parkinson) Elizabeth Knazook, 'The Photographically Illustrated Book in Nineteenth-Century Canada and the Problem of Bibliographic Authority' Lorna Sheppard, 'The Cookbook as Material Object: Text and Illustration and the discourse of home making in Elizabeth David's book French Provincial Cooking (1960)' 12:45-13:45 Lunch 13:45-15:15 Panel Session #3 Destroying the Book (Sheppard Room) Anna Reynolds, 'Rough Handling: The Eloquence of Broken Books' Susan Wright, 'Transforming the Book - not knowing becoming a form of knowing' Avner Shamir, 'Incombustible books in early modern Germany' Holdings of Books (1.08 Parkinson) Linda McGuire, 'The Contents of Cicero's Library: on producing and circulating books in ancient Rome' Sophie Defrance, '"Not so much rarities as books containing problems to work out": Samuel Sandars, Henry Bradshaw and Francis Jenkinson and the changing status of the book' Jill Dye, 'A book in the hand: uniting historic readers and their books at Innerpeffray Library' 15:15-15:45 Tea / Coffee 15:45-17:00 Panel Session #4 Publishing the Book (Sheppard Room) Sayantan Mondal, 'Cultural Ascent and Normative Discrimination: Role of Books in Registering Caste-Class Equation in the Nineteenth Century Bengali world of Letters' Jenny Lelkes 'Wastepaper masterpieces: Dust jacket design at the Hogarth Press' Holding the Book II (1.08 Parkinson) Sarah Binless, 'Bookworm: The Master and Margarita' perspectives on reading through artistic practice' Louise Atkinson, 'Lorem Ipsum' 17:00-17:15 Break 17:15-18:30 Keynote Lecture (Sheppard Room) Sheena Calvert, 'Books and the Human' 18:30-19:15 Wine Reception (School of English) All best wishes, Rebecca. Dr Rebecca Bowd Data Migration Assistant (Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society) | Special Collections and Galleries Leeds University Library 0113 343 5525 https://library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections @UoLTreasures <https://twitter.com/uollibrary> [1458316849020_Logo.png] Brotherton Library University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT