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.