Points of Departure Symposium
University of Southamptom
9 October 2010
Dr Mary Hammond has been awarded a grant by the University of Southampton's Internationalisation Fund to host a symposium related to the new international book history project on ‘Printers on the Move: Transnational Migration, Identity and Printing Skills Transfer in the English Speaking World, 1840-1914.’ It complements and moves forward work begun at the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation funded symposium held at Queen Margaret University 1-2 October 2010.
The symposium, called 'Ports of Departure', will take place in the Hartley Suite, Staff Social Centre, on 9 October 2010. The project aims to bring together archivists, museum curators and scholars from a minimum of seven countries and a range of disciplines in order to investigate the global movement of skilled print workers and their equipment in the 19th century, with a view to understanding how international relations were moulded through print culture in this period. Southampton’s symposium will focus on the main ports of departure used by these printers. Confirmed speakers and presentations include the following:
Professor David Finkelstein (Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh): ‘Printers on the Move: A Transnational Approach to Book Trade Research’
Dr Abhijit Gupta (Jadavpur University, Calcutta): 'Importing education: the Calcutta School Book Society and British materials for schools’
Dr Mary Hammond (University of Southampton): 'Print workers and the shipping industry in nineteenth-century Southampton'
Dr Sydney Shep (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand): ‘The Material Legacy of Migration: Typographical Journals and Global Communication Networks’
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