Seminar Programme
Autumn Term
Week |
Seminar Topic |
1 | No seminar |
2 | Introduction: What is the History of Books? |
3 | Indian Ink |
4 | Reading the Bible in Colonial India |
5 |
Mapping an Empire |
6 | Reading Week |
7 | India’s Information Panic |
8 | Printing the People of India |
9 | Nationalism and Vernacular Print Culture |
10 | Gandhi’s Printing Press |
Spring Term
Week |
Seminar Topic |
1 | Early African Print Cultures |
2 | The Portable Bunyan |
3 | African Cartography |
4 | Abolition and the Popular Press |
5 | Useful Knowledge in the West Indies |
6 | Reading Week |
7 | Printing the Pacific |
8 | Imagined Communities in the Antipodes |
9 | Gutenberg in Shanghai |
10 | Mapping the Middle Kingdom |
Summer Term
Week |
Seminar Topic |
1 |
No seminars in Term 3, but please do make use of my office hours, and speak to me about your final essay as to get feedback on your ideas. |