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Title	Description	People	Date
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
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
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
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
Early descriptions of the process of photography	Michael Pritchard: Early descriptions of the process of photography.	Michael Pritchard	20 August, 2023
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
John Herschel’s earliest photographic trials in 1839	Olena Chervonik: John Herschel’s earliest photographic trials in 1839.	Olena Chervonik	20 August, 2023
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Folktales' for an Elite Audience	Discussing the text and images of MS. Ouseley Add. 1	Nasrin Askari	29 July, 2021
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
‘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
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
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
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
Welcome and Introduction	Catríona Cannon, Deputy Librarian, Bodleian Libraries, introduces the seminar.	Catriona Cannon	12 May, 2021
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The most woman-studentish? Somerville College and student life	A look at early women students at Somerville College Oxford	Mo Moulton	2 March, 2021
'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
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
‘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
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
Women in the Oxford English Dictionary	A fascinating insight into the role of women in the Oxford English Dictionary	Charlotte Brewer	2 March, 2021
Introduction	Richard Ovenden, head of the Bodleian Library, gives a short introduction to the event	Richard Ovenden	2 March, 2021
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
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
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
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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A New Power: Photography, 1800-1850

BOOKNESS at the Bodleian Library

Textiles in Libraries: Context & Conservation series

Persian arts of the book conference 13-14 July 2021

The Oxford Seminars in Cartography: Women and Maps

'Must it be a Man?' Women's contribution to the University of Oxford

Sheldon Tapestry Maps

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