The Book: A Life Cycle - The Inaugural Symposium

for the Centre for theBook at Otago University

Thursday29 March 2012: Dunningham Room, Dunedin Public Library

7.00pm - Prof David Skegg – Opening address

7.20pm - "the old rag and bone shop" John Quilter, Quilter’sBooks, Wellington

Friday30 March 2012: Barclay Theatre, Otago Museum

9.00:Introduction/Opening

DrShef Rogers (English) *this session may alter if Prof. Howsam is here.
9.30:Futures of the Book

HowardAmos (University Librarian)

DrErika Pearson (Media and Communication)

PenelopeTodd (Rosa Mira Books)

10.30– coffee break

11.00-12.00:Research Potentials in Print Culture

Prof.Tony Ballantyne (History) – ‘Print and writinghistories of colonialism’

AnthonyTedeschi (Rare Books, Dunedin Public) 

DrLachy 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

DrRoger Collins – Revisiting Louis-Auguste de Sainson: Bibliography, Bibliophilyand Biography

NoelWaite, Dunedin City of Literature – The State of the Play?

DonaldKerr/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.