| Agrippa Symposium, closing remarks |
Closing remarks of the symposium and Q&A |
Jason Scott-Warren |
22 January, 2024 |
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| Book studies and book-arts |
In this session, speakers Gill Partington and Russell Maret share their perspectives on the relationship between book studies and book-arts |
Gill Partington, Russell Maret, Adam Smyth |
22 January, 2024 |
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| The Transmission event of Agrippa, 9 December 1992 |
In this session we hear about the original ‘Transmission’ event of Agrippa |
Lauren Amazeen, Chris Fletcher, John Maxwell Hobbs, Justine Provino, Marc Scarpa, ‘PseudoPhred’, ‘Rosehammer’, ‘Templar’ |
22 January, 2024 |
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| Agrippa Scholars Roundtable |
In this session, scholars discuss their involvement with and research into Agrippa |
Caroline Bassett, Quinn DuPont, Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, Alan Liu, Rollin Milroy, Justine Provino, Peter Schwenger |
22 January, 2024 |
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| Hybrid book tour of Agrippa |
In this session, librarians and archivists from a wide range of international public institutions share their copies of Agrippa |
Ivy Blackman, Douglas Dodds, Chris Fletcher, Elizabeth James, Leah Johansen, Gillian Lee, Justine Provino, Gabriella Svenningsen Omonte, Susan Steuer |
22 January, 2024 |
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| S2 Ep2: BOOKNESS with Kevin Steele |
BOOKNESS talks to graphic designer and book artist Kevin Steele about his pop-up book ‘The Movable Book of Letterforms’, which is on display in the Bodleian’s exhibition ‘Alphabet’s Alive!’ until the end of January 2024. |
Alice Evans, Jo Maddocks, Kevin Steele |
13 December, 2023 |
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| S2 Ep1: BOOKNESS with Paul Johnson |
BOOKNESS talks to book artist Paul Johnson about his pop-up book ‘Dies Natalis’, which was created as a gift to the Bodleian library for the Gifts and Books exhibition. |
Alice Evans, Jo Maddocks, Paul Johnson |
13 October, 2023 |
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| Indian Encounters with Early Photography: Camera, Cannon, and the ‘Exhibitionary Complex’ |
Sean Willcox: Indian Encounters with Early Photography: Camera, Cannon, and the ‘Exhibitionary Complex’ |
Sean Willcox |
20 August, 2023 |
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| Materiality and ‘Substance’: Talbot’s experiments in photomechanical printing |
Francesca Strobino: Materiality and ‘Substance’: Talbot’s experiments in photomechanical printing |
Francesca Strobino |
20 August, 2023 |
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| The early history of photography in relation to three notions of “fixity”: chemistry, politics, and meaning |
Chitra Ramalingam: The early history of photography in relation to three notions of “fixity”: chemistry, politics, and meaning. |
Chitra Ramalingam |
20 August, 2023 |
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| Early descriptions of the process of photography |
Michael Pritchard: Early descriptions of the process of photography. |
Michael Pritchard |
20 August, 2023 |
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| The global engagement of two British photographers, James William Newland (1810-57) and Louisa How (1821-93) |
Elisa deCourcy: The global engagement of two British photographers, James William Newland (1810-57) and Louisa How (1821-93). |
Elisa deCourcy |
20 August, 2023 |
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| John Herschel’s earliest photographic trials in 1839 |
Olena Chervonik: John Herschel’s earliest photographic trials in 1839. |
Olena Chervonik |
20 August, 2023 |
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| Photographic images published in books and newspapers show how early British photographers represented racial and class differences in their work |
Geoffrey Batchen: Photographic images published in books and newspapers show how early British photographers represented racial and class differences in their work |
Geoffrey Batchen |
20 August, 2023 |
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| S1 Ep5: BOOKNESS with Justine Provino |
On the 30th anniversay of its publication, BOOKNESS talks to book conservator and PhD candidate Justine Provino about her research into the self-destructing book 'Agrippa'. |
Alice Evans, Jo Maddocks, Justine Provino |
9 December, 2022 |
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| S1 Ep4: BOOKNESS with Stephen Emmerson |
BOOKNESS talks to poet and artist Stephen Emmerson about his book 'Translation of Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge', a paperback novel 'translated' into mushrooms. |
Alice Evans, Jo Maddocks, Stephen Emmerson |
21 November, 2022 |
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| S1 Ep3: BOOKNESS with Yiota Demetriou |
BOOKNESS talks to multi-media artist Yiota Demetriou about her book 'To You', a book made with thermal ink that requires the intimacy and heat of the reader's hands to reveal its text. |
Alice Evans, Jo Maddocks, Yiota Demetriou |
15 November, 2022 |
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| S1 Ep2: BOOKNESS with Ben Denzer |
In the first episode in this series, BOOKNESS talks to book designer and artist Ben Denzer, about a book he has created from 20 slices of Kraft American cheese. |
Alice Evans, Jo Maddocks, Ben Denzer |
8 November, 2022 |
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| S1 Ep1: Welcome to BOOKNESS |
Welcome to BOOKNESS, a podcast from the Centre for the Study of the Book at the Bodleian Libraries exploring artists' books made of unusual materials… |
Alice Evans, Jo Maddocks, Chris Fletcher, Emma Smith, Adam Smyth |
8 November, 2022 |
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| Talk 6: Tying up loose threads: the Textiles in Libraries project so far |
Join the Bodleian Conservation and Collection Care team to find out more about what the Textiles in Libraries project has involved so far. |
Alice Evans, Nicole Gilroy, Henrike Lähnemann, Katica Laza |
19 July, 2022 |
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| Talk 5: Textiles and text: A collaborative approach to conserving textile-covered manuscripts |
Conservators Jane Eagan and Maria Hayward describe their work treating seven manuscripts re-covered in velvet for Henry VIII, part of a small corpus of royal books still in their textile bindings in the Queens College Library |
Jane Eagan, Maria Hayworth, Alice Evans |
5 April, 2022 |
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| Talk 4: Textiles from East to West: case studies from the Leiden collections |
Building on earlier talks in the series that explored the uses of textiles in library collections, this talk focuses on examples of textiles in manuscript bindings in the Oriental collections of Leiden University Library. |
Karin Scheper, Alice Evans |
24 January, 2022 |
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| Talk 3: Stitches, leaves and smelly old books: in conversation with textile artist Alice Fox |
Textile based artwork is well aligned with stitched or folded book structures. Giving book-related examples from her practice, artist Alice Fox describes how an experimental approach to materials can lead to a variety of creative outcomes. |
Alice Fox, Alice Evans, Andrew Honey |
9 December, 2021 |
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| Talk 2: Beyond the velvet cover: textiles and craft in Byzantine bookbinding |
Georgios Boudalis explores the subject of textiles and craft in Byzantine bookbinding, sharing techniques little known not only in the context of Byzantine bookbinding but also more generally in the context of Byzantine material culture. |
Georgios Boudalis, Alice Evans |
6 December, 2021 |
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| Talk 1: Textiles in Libraries: glimpses from the Bodleian |
The first talk in the Textiles in Libraries: Context and Conservation series brings together three colleagues from across the Bodleian Library to explore the wide variety and sometimes surprising uses of textiles found in our collections. |
Jo Maddocks, Andrew Honey, Martin Kauffmann, Alice Evans |
11 November, 2021 |
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| Folktales' for an Elite Audience |
Discussing the text and images of MS. Ouseley Add. 1 |
Nasrin Askari |
29 July, 2021 |
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| Making Manuscripts for a Prince of the Black Sheep |
Overview of Bahari Fellowship examining the codicology and context of the Bodleian Library’s collection of manuscripts made for the 15th century Turkman patron Prince Pir Budaq |
Anita Chowdry |
29 July, 2021 |
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| Books, Bags and Boxes |
Islamic manuscripts were often kept in protective bags and other enclosures, which are an integrated, though understudied part of their physical and historic appearance. |
Karin Scheper |
29 July, 2021 |
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| Poetry (and Prose) in Motion: Illuminated Manuscripts from Late Fourteenth-Century Shiraz |
A short talk about illuminated manuscripts produced in late fourteenth-century Shiraz, including several in the Bodleian Collections and elsewhere |
Cailah Jackson |
29 July, 2021 |
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| The Future of the Past: poetry, portraiture, and the reception of antiquity in a Timurid Shahnama |
This talk focuses on fifteenth-century paintings and poetry inserted into the Shahnama of Ibrahim Sultan (Bodleian Library MS. Ouseley Add. 176) in order to explore the correlation between portraiture and historical self-awareness |
Peyvand Firouzeh |
29 July, 2021 |
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| Studying the Pādshāhnāmas (Books of the Emperor) Manuscripts in the Special Collection of the Bodleian Library |
The talk presents overviews of the three Persian Manuscripts of the Padshahnama MS Elliot 368, MS Caps ORD 1-3 & MS Fraser 138, preserved in the Special Collections of the Bodleian Library ,Oxford |
Gulfishan Khan |
29 July, 2021 |
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| The Bodleian’s Akhbār-i Barmakiyān: Tales on Super Heroes from Afghanistan and Iraq |
A short talk given at the Persian Art of the Book conference |
Arezou Azad |
29 July, 2021 |
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| Illustrated Manuscript of Persian Translation of One Thousand and One Nights |
A discussion of the Persian translations of the Thousand and One Nights in the World, focusing on the illustrated version kept in the Golestān Palace (Tehran) and the image-less version kept in the Bodleian Library (Oxford). |
Ali Boozari |
29 July, 2021 |
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| Lost and found in the map library: changes in early map librarianship |
Georgia Brown, UW-Milwaukee Libraries, WI, USA, gives the third talk in session 3B of the seminar. |
Georgia Brown |
12 May, 2021 |
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| Beyond “clerical cartography”: gender and the production of Sanborn fire insurance maps in the 1920s |
Jack Swab, University of Kentucky, USA, gives the second talk in session 3B in the seminar. |
Jack Swab |
12 May, 2021 |
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| Where are all the women? The case of the Halls |
Debbie Hall, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, gives the first talk in session 3B in the seminar. |
Debbie Hall |
12 May, 2021 |
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| The political cartographies of Marthe Rajchman |
Mike Heffernan and Benjamin Thorpe, University of Nottingham, give the first talk of session 3A in the seminar. |
Mike Heffernan, Benjamin Thorpe |
12 May, 2021 |
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| From body as territory to feminicides mapping: discourses and mapping languages by Latin American feminist cartographies |
Manuela Silveira, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, gives the third talk in the second session of the seminar. |
Manuela Silveira |
12 May, 2021 |
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| Mapping toward equitable solutions in public transit planning |
Suzie Birdsell, Nelson\Nygaard Consulting, Boston, USA, gives the second presentation, in the second session of the seminar. |
Suzie Birdsell |
12 May, 2021 |
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| ‘Octavia always enjoyed a map’: Octavia Hill, maps, and Victorian social reform |
Elizabeth Baigent, University of Oxford, gives the first talk in the second session of the seminar. |
Elizabeth Baigent |
12 May, 2021 |
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| Women and children first: gender, flood and victimhood in Dutch eighteenth-century maps of dike-breaks |
Anne-Rieke van Schaik, University of Amsterdam, gives the third in the first session of the seminar. |
Anne-Rieke van Schaik |
12 May, 2021 |
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| The rise, persistence and surprising end of female personifications of the continents on maps |
Chet Van Duzer, University of Rochester, NY, USA, gives the second presentation in the first session of the seminar. |
Chet Van Duzer |
12 May, 2021 |
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| Where are the women on sixteenth-century French World maps? |
Camille Serchuk, Southern Connecticut State University, USA, gives the first talk in the first session of the seminar. |
Camille Serchuk |
12 May, 2021 |
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| Welcome and Introduction |
Catríona Cannon, Deputy Librarian, Bodleian Libraries, introduces the seminar. |
Catriona Cannon |
12 May, 2021 |
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| Learning since our mothers day |
Oxford's registrar gives a personal account of her mother's journey through education and early career, and the expectations for women at the time, and how that has shaped her own career. |
Gill Aitken |
2 March, 2021 |
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| The architecture of women’s higher education in England, 1869–1914 |
How University architecture reflects the presence of women and their perceived needs, and the generosity of female benefactors |
Geoffrey Tyack |
2 March, 2021 |
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| Diversifying portraiture: women’s place in a project to change the representation of Oxford success |
Alice Prochaska discusses the Diversifying Portraiture project designed by the Equality and Diversity Unit at Oxford University |
Alice Prochaska |
2 March, 2021 |
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| A subject ‘for Honours men’: women in the early School of Geography |
A look at early women geography students at Oxford |
Elizabeth Baigent |
2 March, 2021 |
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| Women of the Bodleian: personal stories behind progressive steps |
A look at the early women librarians of the Bodleian Library |
Anne Lawrence |
2 March, 2021 |
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| The domestic work of women at Oxford colleges |
A look at the history of the women service sector workers at Oxford Colleges and upon whom the comfortable academic life depended |
Kathryne Crossley |
2 March, 2021 |
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| Women college principals and their views on degrees, 1879–1920 |
Anne Keene explores the views of the 10 women principals of the 5 women's colleges estabished between 1879-1920 |
Anne Keen |
2 March, 2021 |
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| The most woman-studentish? Somerville College and student life |
A look at early women students at Somerville College Oxford |
Mo Moulton |
2 March, 2021 |
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| 'The Lady Collationers': women and the study of medieval manuscripts in the Bodleian Libraries |
A look at the careers of the Parker sisters known as the Lady Collationers |
Hope Williard |
2 March, 2021 |
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| All but absent from history? Women in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |
Womens roles in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |
Jane Garnett |
2 March, 2021 |
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| ‘Must it be a man?’: the women who helped to make the Oxford English Dictionary |
Peter Gilliver discusses the contribution women made to the Oxford English Dictionary |
Peter Gilliver |
2 March, 2021 |
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| Women workers at OUP |
A look back at women who worked at the Oxford University Press. Delivered by Peter Gilliver on behalf of Martin Maw |
Martin Maw, Peter Gilliver |
2 March, 2021 |
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| Women in the Oxford English Dictionary |
A fascinating insight into the role of women in the Oxford English Dictionary |
Charlotte Brewer |
2 March, 2021 |
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| Introduction |
Richard Ovenden, head of the Bodleian Library, gives a short introduction to the event |
Richard Ovenden |
2 March, 2021 |
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| Fitting it in, filling it out: from Christopher Saxton's survey to Ralph Sheldon's tapestry maps |
This talk was given as part of the Sheldon Tapestry Maps Symposium |
Hilary Turner |
2 December, 2019 |
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| The Catholic Gentry in Ralph Sheldon’s Midlands |
This talk was given as part of the Sheldon Tapestry Maps Symposium |
Katie McKeogh |
2 December, 2019 |
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| Power, Propaganda, Magnificence: the cartographic background to the Sheldon tapestry maps |
This talk was given as part of the Sheldon Tapestry Maps Symposium |
Peter Barber |
2 December, 2019 |
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| One stitch at the time: Returning the Sheldon Tapestry Maps to life |
This talk was given as part of the Sheldon Tapestry Maps Symposium |
Nick Millea, Virginia llado-Buisan |
2 December, 2019 |
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