Proposals are due by March 15, 2012. For further details see our Other events and announcements page

Rob Banham, Lost in film: design and production in the twentieth century; Vince Connare, ‘We are the 99%’; Priscila Farias, Tropical types: São Paulo city 19th century typographers: Antero Ferreira, Design catalogue for the Archive of the University of Coimbra (2005–11): ortho-microtypography in scientific texts; Jessica Glaser, The graphic sandwich; Barbara Henry, Reading Walt Whitman's faces; Thomas Milo, Arabic versus Eurabic; Julián Moncada, Diverse voices: perspectives on gender diversity and the development of type design history: Robert Sharl, David Osbaldestin, The new print; Aspasia Papadima, Thomas Photiadis, Evripides Zantides, The use of eye-tracker technology to evaluate gender perception differences/biases on typeface design and characteristics; Alice Savoie, International cross-currents in typeface design: France, Britain and the US in the phototypesetting era, 1949–75; Juliet Shen, The several roles of a bespoke Native American font; Vaibhav Singh, Typography proper: lessons from the Hamiltonian system of interlinear translations in the digital era of multi-script typography; Elena Veguillas, La Tipografía: witness of the changes within the Spanish printing trade; Hazel Wilkinson, Ornamental type and the identification of unknown printers in the hand press period.

Further details can be found on the Typographic Hub website.

Closing date for call for papers: 31 January 2012

4–5 September 2012, Birmingham School of Art, Margaret Street, Birmingham B3 3BX

Between the Hall of Memory and Baskerville House in Birmingham stands a sculptural tribute to John Baskerville. On the columns of Portland Stone are reversed bronze letters spelling ‘Virgil’, the Roman poet whose works were printed by Baskerville in 1757 in the famous typeface that bears his name. A poem in praise of the printer appeared in the Aris’s Gazette in 1751, entitled ‘Industry and Genius’ from which the sculpture takes its name.

The contribution made by printers, processes and products to their industry and the wider political and cultural world will be examined in this two day conference organised jointly by the Printing Historical Society and the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design.

Call for Papers

Papers are invited on any aspect of the ‘industry and genius’ of printing, including trade networks, structure of businesses, relationships with booksellers, publishers and authors, political and cultural significance and technical innovations. Chronologically, papers will be welcomed covering any period. Papers about Birmingham and Midlands printing will be especially encouraged.

Papers should be of up to 30 minutes duration. An abstract (of c.300 words) of the offered paper should be submitted by 31 January 2012, preferably by email, to Francis Cave, Hon. Secretary, Printing Historical Society at secretary@printinghistoricalsociety.org.uk or the following address:

Hon. Secretary, Printing Historical Society, St. Bride Library, St. Bride Institute, Bride Lane, Fleet Street, London, EC4Y 8EE.

Our new Publications Officer is Richard Lawrence. Richard is a long-standing member of the Society and a current Committee member, and is also known to many who have attended letterpress printing courses that he presents at St Brides.

Enquiries about purchasing copies of the Society's publications should in future be addressed to publications@printinghistoricalsociety.org.uk.