Wednesday, February 01, 2012

The Book: A Life Cycle - The Inaugural Symposium


for the Centre for the Book at Otago University

Thursday 29 March 2012: Dunningham Room, Dunedin Public Library
7.00 pm - Prof David Skegg – Opening address
7.20 pm - "the old rag and bone shop" John Quilter, Quilter’s Books, Wellington
Friday 30 March 2012: Barclay Theatre, Otago Museum
9.00: Introduction/Opening
Dr Shef Rogers (English) *this session may alter if Prof. Howsam is here.
9.30: Futures of the Book
Howard Amos (University Librarian)
Dr Erika Pearson (Media and Communication)
Penelope Todd (Rosa Mira Books)
10.30 – coffee break
11.00-12.00: Research Potentials in Print Culture
Prof. Tony Ballantyne (History) – ‘Print and writing histories of colonialism’
Anthony Tedeschi (Rare Books, Dunedin Public) 
Dr Lachy Paterson (Te Tumu)- ‘Indigenous Texts, Indigenous Histories’
12.00– 1.00 Lunch
1.00– 3.30: Life Cycle of the Book
Author - Vanda Symon (Independent writer)
Design – Ralph Lawrence (Independent Designer)
Publisher – Barbara Larson (ex-Longacre; Commission editor for Random House)
Sales – Bronwyn Wylie-Gibb (UBS)
Survival – Sharon Dell (Hocken Library)
3.30 – afternoon tea break
4.00 – 5.00: Issues & Wrap Up
Prof. Helen Leach – The Non-conformist Cookbook
Dr Roger Collins – Revisiting Louis-Auguste de Sainson: Bibliography, Bibliophily and Biography
Noel Waite, Dunedin City of Literature – The State of the Play?
Donald Kerr/Shef Rogers
Registration for the full day is $25 (waged); $10 (unwaged).
To register e-mail books@otago.ac.nz for an electronic registration form.

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