Wed, Sept 7th
- 11.30-12.00 Registration
- 12.00-13.00 Lunch
- 13.00-13.30 Introductions/ Meryl Halls (Booksellers Association, UK)
- 13.30-15.00 Panel 1 Bookshop Histories
- 15.00-15.20 Tea Break
- 15.20-16.50 Panel 2 Books from the North
- 17.00 Finish for the day
Thurs, Sept 8th
- 9.00-9.30 Coffee/ Pastries
- 9.30-11.00 Panel 3 (online) International Bookselling
- Panel 4 (onsite) Cultures of Bookselling
- 11.00-11.30 Coffee Break
- 11.30-13.00 Panel 5 Ideas and Influences
- 13.00-14.00 Lunch
- 14.00-14.45 Guest talk: Derek Addyman in conversation with Eben Muse
- 14:45-15.00 Conclusions Eben Muse and Samantha Rayner
Panels
Panel 1: Bookshop histories
- Kristen Highland: The Monumental Bookstore
- Maria Vassilopoulos: The light and dark of the book trade — Christina Foyle and her bookselling years
- Andrew Nash: Bookshops and Publishers’ Travellers in the mid-1930s
Panel 2: Books from the North: Yorkshire Bookselling in the Early Modern Period.
- Rachel Stenner, ‘Book Trade Life Writing: The Case of Mr Thomas Gent, Printer, of York’
- Adam James Smith, ‘The Newspaper, the Bookshop and the Radical Society: Joseph Gales’ Hartshead Press and the “Reading and Thinking People of Sheffield”’
- Kaley Kramer: ‘Printed by Alice Broade: the Career of York’s First Female Printer, 1661-1680’
Panel 3 (online): International Bookselling
- Noriko Asato: Japanese Immigrant Bookstores in Territorial Hawaiʻi, 1898-1941
- Matthew Chambers: “Brentano’s Would Pay Hemingway!”: Selling Anglo-American Modernism in Paris
- Paul Tankard: “A Musty [Literary] Extravaganza”: Dunedin’s Regent Theatre 24-hour Booksale
Panel 4: The Cultures of bookselling
- Andrew Kamei-Dyche: Japanese Bookselling in Times of Trouble: From the Great Kantō Earthquake to the Coronavirus
- Andrew Wertheimer: אמעריקע אין ביכער־געשעפט יידישע די The Yiddish Bookstore in America
- Eleanor Shevlin: The Matter of a Late 18th-Century London Bookshop, Its Proprietor, and the Trade (online)
Panel 5: Ideas & Influences
- Gail Chester: Dissemination of radical literature in Britain since 1960 – bookshops, distributors, bookfairs
- Tim White: Bookselling down Under: a report from the antipodes
- Ross Bradshaw: A short history of radical bookselling (online)
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