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