On Paper: A symposium exploring the meanings of the material page in the era
of the digital text.
A day of short presentations and paper fondling followed by a response from
Professor Leah Price (Harvard University).
Saturday 3 April 2010
Canterbury Hall, Cartwright Gardens, London WC1H 9EF
The programme for the On Paper symposium is now available online, hosted by
the Institute of English Studies website.
http://ies.sas.ac.uk/events/conferences/2010/OnPaper/index.htm
PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME:
10.00am Coffee and registration
10.20am WELCOME and opening remarks
10.30-12.00 PANEL 1: SERIALS / NEWSPAPERS / COMICS
Tony Venezia (Birkbeck College), 'Alan Moore and the Material Text: The Case
of The Mirror of Love'
Maggie Gray (UCL), ' "Nothing but Flat Dead Wood": the Materiality of the
Comics Page and the Impact of Digitisation'
Zara Dinnen (Birkbeck College), 'Object McSweeney's: Fetishising print in the
Digital Age'
Laurel Brake (Birkbeck College), 'Paper Chains/Paper Dreams? Reading
nineteenth-century serials online and on paper'
12.00-1.00pm Lunch (own arrangements)
1.00-1.20pm Book artist and graphic designer Linda Toigo will present some of
her work
1.20-2.30pm PANEL 2: READING THE SURFACE
Heather Tilley (Birkbeck College), 'The "feeling reader": embossed books for
blind people in the nineteenth century'
Ros Murray (Kings College), 'Scrapings of the Soul: Artaud's Cahier 395'
Esther Leslie (Birkbeck College), 'Words on and off the Page'
2.30-2.45pm Coffee
2.45- 4.00pm PANEL 3: MARKING THE SURFACE
Adam Smyth (Birkbeck College), 'Collage: Reconsidering Renaissance Writing'
Henderson Downing (Birkbeck College), ' "A modernist collage of found
objects": The Second Education of Iain Sinclair'
Anthony Bale (Birkbeck College), 'Medieval graffiti, Digitization and the
Emotional Archive'
4.00-5.00pm RESPONSE from Professor Leah Price, followed by roundtable
discussion
5.00pm Wine reception
Attendance is free but places are limited. Contact Dr Gill Partington or Dr
Heather Tilley to register: [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask]
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