Print, Publishing and Cultural Production in South Africa
Book History Seminars
13 May 2013
Graduate Centre, University of Pretoria
International Seminar co-hosted by the University of Pretoria and Oxford Brookes University
Supported by the British Academy’s International Partnership and Mobility Scheme
Provisional Programme:
9:00-10:30 – Session 1: Situating Book History in (South) Africa
- Archie L. Dick, Dept of Information Science, University of Pretoria
Book history in South Africa: Recent developments and prospects - Shamil Jeppie, Timbuktu Project, University of Cape Town
The intersection of manuscript and print in Timbuktu
10:30-12:00 – Session 2: Cultural production and visual culture
- Sally Hughes, Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies
Contemporary print culture from collections - Lize Kriel, Dept of Visual Arts, University of Pretoria:
Images of readers - Ria van der Merwe, Department of Historical and Heritage Studies, University of Pretoria
Embroidered stories, remembered lives: The MCADF story book project
12:45-2:45 – Session 3: Print and publishing history case studies
- Caroline Davis, Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies
The OUP publication of Oswald Mtshali’s Sounds of a Cowhide Drum - Gerald Groenewald, Dept of History, University of Johannesburg:
Building a Nation with Books? The Reception and Promotion of Afrikaans Books in Die Huisgenoot, 1916-1939 - Isabella Venter, Dept of Visual Arts, University of Pretoria
From “Home” to home: The South African Lady’s Pictorial and Home Journal as a subtle agent of change for British South African women’s view of race relations in Southern Africa - Irma du Plessis, Dept of Sociology, University of Pretoria
The history of childhood from Afrikaans books for children
3:00-4:30 – Session 4: Discussion session on Publishers and their archives
- Beth le Roux, Dept of Information Science, University of Pretoria
Publishers and their archives - Discussion: Caroline Davis, Archie L. Dick