9 Dydd Mercher / Wednesday
14.30: Registration (coffee, tea, water)
15.00: Welcome
15:15: Keynote 1 – Tim Smith & Polly Atkins of Sam Read Bookseller, Grasmere
16.15: Panel 1 – The Printing House as Bookshop: Printer-Bookseller Firms Across Eras
- Martina Hacke, À l’Écu de Bâle
- Margo Stemmelin, Printing and selling books in colonial Maghreb: the Roudoci brothers’ ath-Tha’ālibiyya printing house and bookshop in Algiers (1896–1962)
17.15 Reception
18:00: Pizza and a Bookstore Movie
10 Dydd Iau / Thursday
09:15 Panel 2 – Bookselling on the Move: Mobility, Migration and the Trade
- Kristen Highland, Putting the Cart Before the Book
- Rajarshi Das, From Press to Counter-Space: Saugat as a Migrating Periodical Press Site from Calcutta and Dhaka [Online]
10.15 Helgard Krauss, Books Council for Wales
10:30 Break
10.45 Panel 3 – Selling Community: Minority Literatures in the Urban Marketplace
- Kanupriya Dhingra, Where Language Makes Space: Minor Circulation and Bookselling in Old Delhi’s Urdu Bazaar
- Gail Chester, The selling of Jewish literature in Britain from the late 19th century
11:45 Break
12.00 Panel 4 – Radical Bookshops in Twentieth-Century Britain
- Dave Cope, Space, Politics and Finance in 20th Century Radical Bookshops in Britain
- Shai Feraro, “No more of that ‘hippie shit'”: The Contested Sale of Occult and New Age Spirituality Books in British Radical Bookshops During the 1970s–1980s
13:00 Lunch (45 min)
13:45 Panel 5 – Bookshops as Literary and Intellectual Institutions
- Andrew Kamei-Dyche, Japanese Bookstores as Spaces of Intellectual and Cultural Exchange in the Early Twentieth Century [Online]
- Matthew Chambers, The Literary Bookshop
- Andrew Thacker, Book Towns: Paradises of the Printed Word?
15:15 Break (15 min)
- 15:30 Panel 6 – Bookshops, Democracy and the Public Sphere
- Elen Cocaign, Bookshops in interwar Britain: spaces for democracy?
- Sophie Noël, Bookshops as political spaces? The role of independent bookshops in an agonistic public space
18:00 Visit to Palas Prints, Caernarfon
19:00 Dinner in Caernarfon
11 Dydd Gwener / Friday
09:00 Keynote 2 – Tom Owen of Gay-on-Wye in Hay-on-Wye
10:00 Break (15 min)
10:15 Panel 7 – Community and Commodification in Contemporary Bookselling
- Mika Lieth, Uncritical Avenues for “Rainbow Capitalism”? The Commodification of Queer Cultures within Commercial Bookstores
- Magali Bigey, The rise of the #BookTok community: Reshaping literary recommendation
- Lisa Uhrik, The Shop Around the Corner: Creating Community and Developing Literacy in a Place of Plenty
11:15 Break (15 min)
11:30 Panel 8 – Feminist and Lesbian Bookselling
- Tessa Karsten, “It’s Time We Got This Organized”: Feminist Bookstore News and Lesbian Literary Activism
- Sophia Haber, The Bloodroot Collective (1977–2025): A Case Study
13.00 Lunch (45 min)
13:45: Concluding words and publication plans
