The next session of Reading Allowed will take place on Wednesday, 6 July, with Assoc. Prof. Paul Tankard reading from Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Lorraine Johnston reading from Jane Mander’s Story of a NZ River. Pop in from 5.30pm and rediscover the joy of being read to.

The library of the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (https://theconnection.ece.org/PacificIslsLegalInf/516/r0).

The call for papers is now active for this year’s research symposium.  Topics might include:

• Trade and production of print in each nation;
  Literacy among peoples indigenous and colonial;
  Print and control;
  Print and indigenous art;
  Books imported, donated, discarded;
  How books and print shape, define or disrupt our sense of place;
  Role of books and print in shaping, defining or sustaining diaspora communities;
  Books and print and evangelism in the Pacific;
  Books and print and food in the Pacific;
  Books and print and scientific exchange in the Pacific;
  Impacts of literacy, intentional or unintentional

Please submit abstracts of 250–300 words to the Centre for the Book (books@otago.ac.nz) by 1 September. Feel free to contact either of the organisers, Shef Rogers (shef.rogers@otago.ac.nz) or Donald Kerr (donald.kerr@otago.ac.nz), if you have any questions. We aim to send out notifications about acceptances and a draft programme by mid-September.