The Centre is pleased to welcome Andrew Carpenter, Emeritus Professor of Literature at University College Dublin.  Prof. Carpenter will present a seminar on “Verse Chapbooks in the Irish Provinces, 1770-1800: Textual Transmission, Printing and Circulation,” a subject on which he has worked extensively as part of his work in editing Verse in English from Eighteenth Century Ireland (Cork University Press, 1998) and other projects.  The seminar will take place on Tuesday, 18 March at 4 pm in Central Library Seminar Room 3 on the first floor.  Drinks and nibbles will accompany his talk.

The Irish Studies Centre is delighted to welcome Andrew Carpenter, Emeritus Professor of University College Dublin, for a talk entitled, “Fighting for Readers: Swift’s Dublin Publishers in the 1750s.”  The talk will take place at 5:30 pm, in Burns 4, on Monday, 17 March.  Professor Carpenter will also give a Centre for the Book talk the following day.

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The Centre for the Book at Otago Symposium 2014

Call for Papers

 ‘Against the Odds: the Editing, Design and Production of Books’

 The Centre for the Book at the University of Otago is now calling for papers for their annual symposium, which will be held in conjunction with the Dunedin School of Art ‘Art and Book’ Symposium on Friday 17 and Saturday 18 October 2014.

Books are created by the combined efforts of authors, editors, production managers, designers, and sales managers. Illustrators are often included, greatly enhancing the desired result, which is to ‘transmit the message in the best possible way.’

 We will consider papers of 20 minute duration on the following:

•  Book Editing – the preparation of the content of the book (working with the author; the manuscript; concept design and production)
• Book Design – conception planning and specifying the physical and visual attributes of the book (illustrations? typography? What type and how many pages? Who is the market?)
• Book Production – execution, scheduling, co-ordinating processes

A panel discussion is also planned.  

As has become a Centre for the Book at Otago tradition, a free public lecture will be given in the Dunningham Room, 4^th floor, Dunedin Public Library, on Thursday 16 October 2014. The speaker will be confirmed later, as will details on the times and venue.   

 For further information, please contact: Donald Kerr, Special Collections Librarian,Donald.kerr@otago.ac.nz ; Noel Waite, Applied Sciences, Otago noel.waite@otago.ac.nz; Shef Rogers, English and Linguistics Department, Otago shef.rogers@otago.ac.nz. 

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There are real synergies between the Dunedin School of Art ‘ART AND BOOK’ Symposium and the Centre for the Book at Otago. We not only look forward to improving networks and collaboration, but also formulating an exciting programme for all. The artists are not forgotten. Those interested in taking part in the exhibition at the Dunedin School of Art Gallery, which runs from 13-24 October, or giving papers specifically for the ‘Art and Book’ symposium at the Dunedin School of Art on Friday 17 October, please contact Peter Stupples peter.stupples@op.ac.nz These two events support the Dunedin City Council’s bid to establish Dunedin as a UNESCO City of Literature.