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)