Bookish 24

The first Bookish symposium was held on November 29th 2024.

To view avaliable abstracts please click on the presentors name.

Kirsty Dunn & Emily Lazare – Tā - publishing histories of Waitaha and Te Waipounamu

ngā pukapuka pekapeka – A new micropress publishing collective

Terri Elder - ‘Specimens of typography - ancient and modern’: the significance of classical typographical artworks in the Canterbury Art Exhibition of 1870.

Emma Johnson - Holding the mirror to archive: French reading cultures and colonialism in Canterbury Waitaha

Peter Vangioni - Canterbury’s private presses

David Gregory – Sudden Valley Press

Chelsea Houghton - Literary Journals as part of the Waitaha and Aotearoa Literature Ecosystem

Mike Grimshaw - (Don’t stop) thinking about Tomorrow…

Laura Borrowdale – Aotearotica

Luke Wood - The National Grid 2.0: Rebooting an In-Print Publishing Platform for Critical Writing about Graphic Design in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Gwynneth Porter – The book as technology of care.

Barbara Garrie – Artists-led publishing in post-quake Ōtautahi Christchurch.

ngā pukapuka pekapeka – Reading performance.