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Conference Report: Transformations in Letterpress Printing, HU Berlin, 9-10 June 2016
Guest post by Katharina Walter, Cluster of Excellence “Image Knowledge Gestaltung. An Interdisciplinary Laboratory”, Humboldt-Universität Berlin The history of analogue printing and the question of its significance in an age of digital media are issues that, more than ever, exercise minds in both cultural and scientific fields of research as well as typographic practice. At […]
Conference: Transformations in Letterpress Printing, 9-10 June 2016, Berlin
Next week, “Image Knowledge Gestaltung. An Interdisciplinary Laboratory”, a union of the humanities, natural and technological sciences, medicine and – for the first time in basic research – the disciplines of design and architecture as well, is hosting a two-day conference on “Transformations in Letterpress Printing” in English and German. Speakers include Erik Spiekermann, James […]
Event: Shakespeare in the SBB-PK. An evening in three acts, 26 April, Berlin
We would like to inform our followers and readers about an upcoming event at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin which will be held in cooperation with the event series Die Materialität von Schriftlichkeit – Bibliothek und Forschung im Dialog. In order to commemorate the 400th year of Shakespeare’s death, the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin invites the public […]
Call for Papers for Workshop “Junges Forum für Sammlungs- und Objektforschung”, Berlin, 29 September-1 October 2016
The “Junges Forum für Sammlungs- und Objektforschung” (roughly: “Young Forum for Collection and Material Object Research”) invites PhD candidates of any discipline to submit papers for a workshop to be held in Berlin from 29 September to 1 October 2016. The organizer is the “Koordinierungsstelle für wissenschaftliche Universitätssammlungen in Deutschland”, in cooperation with the “Gesellschaft […]
CfP: Consumerism and Prestige: The Materiality of Literature in the Postindustrial Age, FU Berlin, June 30 – July 1
Our associated scholar Bernhard Metz is co-organizing an international workshop on the materiality of the book and issues of consumerism to be held at Freie Universität Berlin. We’re glad to share the CfP for this event below. Please note that the submission deadline for abstracts is April 1. CfP: Consumerism and Prestige: The Materiality […]
Event: Art and politics in broadsheets, 7 March 2016, Berlin
We would like to inform our followers and readers about and upcoming event at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin withtin the framework of the event series Die Materialität von Schriftlichkeit – Bibliothek und Forschung im Dialog. Christiane Caemmerer (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin) will will give a historical overview of the history of broadsheets from the Reformation to […]
Conference: Drawing Borders, Crossing Boundaries (Grenzen ziehen, Grenzen überschreiten) (9th Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft für Comicforschung, Berlin, 25-28 September 2014)
The conference programme for ComFor‘s (German Society for Comics Studies) 9th Annual Conference on the topic ‘Drawing Borders, Crossing Boundaries’ (Grenzen ziehen, Grenzen überschreiten) from 25th to 28th September 2014 in Berlin is online (for further details see our earlier post on the CfP). Conference languages are German and English. The conference programme is available […]
Call for Papers: Drawing Borders, Crossing Boundaries (Grenzen ziehen, Grenzen überschreiten) (9th Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft für Comicforschung, Berlin, 25-28 September 2014)
ComFor (German Society for Comics Studies) will hold its 9th Annual Conference on the topic ‘Drawing Borders, Crossing Boundaries’ (Grenzen ziehen, Grenzen überschreiten) from 25th to 28th September 2014 in Berlin. From the CfP: Be they between West and East, Upper, Middle and Working Class, Man and Woman, High and Low Art, Reality and Fiction: […]
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