Saturday 28 June 2014
9.45 Registration
10.00 Introduction and Welcome: Gill Partington and Maryanne Dever
10.15–11.30 Panel 1: Perverted Pages
Wim Van Mierlo (School of Advanced Study, University of London)
Writing Tools: The Manuscript as Every-Day Object
Katherine Inglis (University of Edinburgh)
Marian Earle, Book artist.
Andrew Janes (The National Archives, UK)
Mutilation or recreation? Customised cartography in central government recordkeeping
Coffee
11.50- 1.00 Panel 2: Obsessive Collectors
Vicky Mills (University of Cambridge)
Erotics of Late Nineteenth-Century Book Collecting
Jo Croft (Liverpool John Moores University)
‘Unpacking My Hoard’: A Talk About Literary Hoarding (or ‘Too Many Feelings About Too Many Books…)
Maryanne Dever (University of Newcastle, Australia)
Eve Langley’s Manuscript Cupboard
Lunch (Own Arrangements)
2-3.25 Panel 3: Sensing the Book
Katherine Curran (The Bartlett, University College London)
Does the British Library need a Nose?
Gill Partington (Birkbeck, University of London)
Reading, Eating and Perverting Paper: The Indigestible Book in Art
Karen Sandhu (Book Artist, London)
Irritate
Jane Wildgoose (Kingston)
A Visit to the Archives
Coffee
3.45-5.00 Panel 4: Paper and the Body
Christopher Holliday (King’s College London)
Manuscript anatomies and bookish bodies: Inside the Quay Brothers’ The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer(1984)
Sophie Ratcliffe (University of Oxford)
Curl Papers and Papillotes
Jane Partner (University of Cambridge)
Books as Bodies: Dissection and Interiority in Books and Book Sculpture
Wine Reception
Performance: The Poem Factory (Tommy Peeps, Daniel Eltringham, Ollie Evans, Fabian MacPherson and Camilla Nelson)
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Perversions of Paper 
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