Confirmation of speakers

Speakers have been confirmed for the one-day conference Places, Spaces and the Printing Press: imprinting regional identities, organised by the Centre for Printing History & Culture, and the National and University Library, Ljubljana, Slovenia. This event will take place online on 24 March 2021. The event is free and bookings will open shortly.

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

  • James Asher, The Influence of Desktop Publishing on Office Spaces from SGML to AirSpace

  • Debbie Baishya, The Printing Press in the Nineteenth Century and Assamese Linguistic Regionalism

  • Fiona Black, Methods and frameworks for exploring print culture’s places and spaces

  • Kanu Priya Dhingra,The Pirates of Daryaganj Sunday Book Market

  • Irena Eiselt,'Greetings from Bled': Picture Postcards as a 19th-Century Mass Communication Media

  • Patrick Goossens, Columbian versus Albion, the fight of dragons and dolphins

  • Andrew Hobbs, How a Victorian newspaper lost its local touch

  • Andrew Jackson, The 1918-19 “pandemic”, the provincial press and place: 'influenza column' content

  • Marjanca Klobčar, Singing at Fairs: Broadsides in Slovenian Lands

  • Persida Lazarevic, Out of space, out of time: Venetian Greek typography with Illyrian characters

  • Amy Lidster, Inscribing identity: The overlooked significance of the imprint in early modern texts

  • Kirsteen MacKenzie, Actions rather than words: Classical Presbyterianism in the North-West of England and the Printing Press c.1647-1660

  • Luciana Mattar & Marcos Braga,Book Design in Independent Publishers from São Paulo, Brazil

  • Barry McKay,Printing for a small nothern town: Books for Whitehaven in the 18th century.

  • Dermot McGuinne,Gaeilge

  • Swati Moitra,Shaping the ‘Neighbourhood of Books’: The Sanskrit Press and the Making of Calcutta’s College Street

  • Laura Onions,Printing Otherwise: Printing Press as Boundary Object

  • Jade Piaia & Priscila Lena Farias,Typographia Hennies Irmãos: printing for migrating cultures in São Paulo city

  • Joe Saunders, Environments of the English print trade c.1600-41, evidence from wills

  • Renata Šolar, Maps as expression of regional identity, Ducatus Carnioilae Tabula Chorographica by Janez Disma Florjančič, 1744

  • Andrew Walker, Pillars of the community? Housing the English local and regional newspaper in the townscape, c. 1850-1980