The objective of this international congress is to explore traditions and innovations in book design and typography from the manuscript era to the age of the electronic book. The congress explicitly wants to focus on these elements of book design that have faded out, have survived or that evolved over a long period of time. Secondly, the objective is to trace local and international uses and mutual influences in the field of book production. Furthermore, traditions and evolutions are compared with progressive ones, and influences between text genres are dealt with. All these elements should lead to a better understanding of the outer appearance of books being pre-eminant carriers of knowledge, information and ideas.
The programme includes a keynote lecture by Professor David McKitterick and seven sessions on :
The programme includes a keynote lecture by Professor David McKitterick and seven sessions on :
– The design of manuscripts in the 11th and 12th centuries,
– Layout and the reader
– Type
– Book design in the Southern Low Countries
– Physical appearance of the book
– Design in the Modern Period
– Future design.
Programme :
Wednesday 28 September 2011 – Venue: Nottebohm Hall, Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience
18h00 : Yuri Cowan (Ghent University) – The Mirror of Everyday Life: Morris’s Book Collecting and the Kelmscott Press
Thursday 29 September 2011 – Venue: Hof van Liere, University of Antwerp
9h30 : Registration
10h30 : Hubert Meeus (University of Antwerp) – Opening Speech
10h45 : David McKitterick (Trinity College Cambridge) – Design in the Eleventh & Twelfth Centuries
11h45 : Erik Kwakkel (Leiden University) – ‘These Books are Tall and not Wide Enough’: Anomalous Page Dimensions in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
12h15 : Jenny Weston (Leiden University) – The Great Divide: Paragraphs and Paragraph Marks in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
12h45 : Lunch
14h30 : Juulia Ahvensalmi (University of Glasgow) – Layout and Structural Organisation of Medieval and Early Modern English Gynecological Manuscripts and Books
15h00 : Niki Sioki & Dr Mary Dyson (University of Reading) – Serving the Reader: Typography and Text Layout in Greek Alphabet Books
15h30 : Christoph Reske (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz) – The Effect of Technical Tools for Visualisation on the Appearance of Characters
16h00 : Coffee & Tea
16h30 : Gerard Unger (Leiden University) – Jenson’s Model of Type and its Development from the 1470s until Today
17h00 : Claire Bolton – The Influence of Type and Spacing on the Design of the Printed Page
17h30 : Goran Proot (University of Antwerp) – There are the Romans! Changing Faces in the Book Production of the Southern Netherlands, 15th-18th Centuries
18h00 : Reception
Friday 30 September 2011
09h00 : Kristof Selleslach (Museum Plantin Moretus) – Using Ornamental Initials in 16th-Century Antwerp. Trends and Traditions
09h30 : Karen L. Bowen – Designing the New Tridentine Missal: A Case of Melding Guidelines from the Vatican, Personal Preferences of Spanish Theologians, and Practical Considerations of the Printer in Charge, Christopher Plantin
10h00 : Diederik Lanoye (vzw Vlaamse Erfgoedbibliotheek – STCV) – Building Flemish Facades. Title Pages of Books Printed in the Southern Netherlands (17th-18th Century)
10h30 : Coffee & Tea
11h00 : Erik Geleijns (Koninklijke Bibliotheek Den Haag) – Eighteenth Century Paperbacks
11h30 : Nicholas Pickwoad (University of the Arts, London) – The Origins and Development of Adhesive Case Bindings
12h00 : Bharain Mac an Bhreithiún (Middlesex University, London) – Graphic Design and the Expansion of the Public Sphere – The Paperback Book in France since 1968
12h30 : Lunch
14h00 : Carine Dujardin (KADOC Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) – Gothic Revival and Book Design (1820-1950): Between Tradition and Modernity
14h30 : Paul van Capelleveen (Koninklijke Bibliotheek Den Haag) – Reprinting Private Press Books
15h00 : Markus Polzer (University of Antwerp) – A Footnote on Mormon. How Cross-referencing Helped to Shape Mormonism’s Canon
15h30 : Coffee & Tea
16h00 : Paul Dijstelberge (Universiteit van Amsterdam) – Sea-changes: How New Techniques Influence Page-Design
16h30 : Geoffrey Brusatto (University College of PHL) – The Shape of the Paper Book to Come
17h00 : Simon Rosenberg (University of Münster – Institute for the History of the Book; D) From Fascicles to Screen. Presenting Knowledge in the OED in the 19th and 21st Centuries
17h30 : Margaret M. Smith (University of Reading) – The Evolution of Colour in Texts: Will Colour Return to the Texts in Our Books?
18h00 : Closing Remarks
19h00 : Congress Diner
Saturday 1 October 2011
Guided Tour at Museum Plantin-Moretus
Informations pratiques :
The congress proper is preceeded by the 12th Miræus Lecture on Wednesday 28 September 2011, 6 p.m., at the Nottebohm Hall of the Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience, Antwerp. With a congress diner on Friday 30 September, 7 p.m., and a guided tour at Museum Plantin Moretus on Saturday 1 October (free of charge). Registration: €60 | €20 (students), coffee and reception included. For registration and more information, see http://www.bookdesign.be
The congress proper is preceeded by the 12th Miræus Lecture on Wednesday 28 September 2011, 6 p.m., at the Nottebohm Hall of the Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience, Antwerp. With a congress diner on Friday 30 September, 7 p.m., and a guided tour at Museum Plantin Moretus on Saturday 1 October (free of charge). Registration: €60 | €20 (students), coffee and reception included. For registration and more information, see http://www.bookdesign.be
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