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THE AMERICAN PRINTING HISTORY ASSOCIATION is delighted to announce
that its Thirty-third conference will be held in New York City, at
the Grolier Club and Columbia University, is scheduled for
October 10-12, 2008. (Columbus Day weekend.)
This year’s conference, APHA's 33rd, will be held in New York City,
where it will be hosted by Columbia University’s Rare Book and
Manuscript Library, and The Grolier Club on October 10-12, 2008. We have
scheduled the conference for the weekend after Oak Knoll Fest, Columbus
Day weekend. Our working title is “Saving the History of Printing.” We
will begin with a keynote address on Friday evening October 10th at the
Grolier Club, and move on Saturday October 11th to Columbia University
for a full day conference and then to Columbia’s Rare Book and
Manuscript Library for a closing reception. Sunday will be an optional
day of tours.
The conference theme will be about the preservation of the “stuff” of
printing history, broadly conceived—such as artifacts like printed
materials or the equipment (and resources) used to make those products,
not to mention the archives produced in daily work. We do not want to
omit the skills used in printing and its allied crafts. As we know
all-too-well, many artifacts are in danger of being lost while the
skills of many craftspeople will be forgotten. I remind you that APHA
“encourages the preservation of printing artifacts and source materials
for printing history” and we define printing history broadly: “…printing
history and its related arts and skills, including calligraphy,
typefounding, typography, papermaking, bookbinding, illustration, and
publishing. APHA is especially, but by no means exclusively, interested in
American printing history.” Local planning and programs committees are
being organized. If you would like to help, please contact Jane Siegel,
Gerald Cloud, or Fernando Pena at
apha2008conference@gmail.com
A list of past conferences is here.
Additional information, including a membership form, may be found at
www.printinghistory.org.
Below please find expanded descriptions of recent conferences.
 
THE AMERICAN PRINTING HISTORY ASSOCIATION’S 32nd Annual Conference was
held October 11-13, 2007 at UCLA and at the Getty Research Institute in
Los Angeles, California. The theme was Transformations: The
Persistence of Aldus Manutius. Sixteen academic papers were
presented that focused on Aldus Manutius’ innovations and his continuing
influence on printing history, scholarship, typography, type design, and
modern fine printing. The papers were presented in pairs of concurrent
panels.
More information:
Acknowledgments: APHA would like to thank the following for
their generous support of the 2007 APHA annual conference:
- The UCLA Libraries and the Friends of the UCLA Libraries;
- The Getty Research Institute;
- The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation; and
- The Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America Southern
California Chapter
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Past Conferences

In 2006, to celebrate the tercentenary of the birth of Benjamin
Franklin, APHA joined the
Library Company of Philadelphia and the
McNeil
Center of the University of Pennsylvania for a conference called "The Atlantic World of Print in the Age of Franklin." The
conference was sponsored by the McNeil Center and Library
Company and was held in September 2006 at the University of
Pennsylvania.
Conference papers were pre-circulated and expected to be read by all
who planned to attend. Those who preregistered for the conference were
provided free web access to the papers beginning in late August 2006.
Additional
information, including program and lodging, as well as online
registration, is available online via the
McNeil Center website.
![[r]evolution in print logo](../../images/conference/2005compass_color.gif)
[r]Evolution in Print: New Work in Printing History
& Practice [2005]
September 22-23, 2005
Mills College
Oakland, CA
APHA's
2005 conference was held at
Mills College in the San Francisco Bay Area
from September 22nd and 23rd, 2005. The conference, entitled "[r]Evolution in Print: New Work in Printing History
& Practice," combined academic papers with hands-on
workshops and demonstrations that focus on the history, current status,
and future of print. Read more about the
2005 conference.
Picture This: The Art and Technique of Illustration [2004]
September 30-Octobert 1, 2004
University of Delaware Library
Newark, DE
The 2004 conference, “Picture
This: The Art and Technique of Illustration” was the 28th annual
conference of APHA, and was held in conjunction with an exhibition of
the work of renowned artist and wood engraver John DePol and with Oak
Knoll Fest, the largest gathering of fine press printers, collectors, and
hobbyist printers in North America.
New Work in Printing History [2003]
October 24-26, 2003
The Grolier Club www.grolierclub.org
47 East 60th Street
New York, NY
The American Printing History Association's
twenty-seventh annual conference was held in New York, 24-25 October
2003, focused on recent and innovative research in printing history and the
book arts. The
three-day series of lectures and visits was hosted by
The Grolier Club, America’s oldest
bibliophilic society.
A New England Wayzgoose [2002 "On the Road"
Event]
October 27, 2002
The Museum of Printing
www.museumofprinting.org
800 Massachusetts Avenue
North Andover, Massachusetts
SUNDAY OCTOBER 27, 1:00-3:00 PM. Two talks on preserving the pre-digital past,
from APHA's July panel at the
SHARP London conference, were re-presented. The Museum of Printing
hosted the event. Scheduled to
coincide with the Boston Antiquarian Book Fair, many members of APHA and
the Museum took the opportunity to have a bookish weekend in
Massachusetts.
The two talks presented here were part of an attempt
to answer the question (presented as part of the original panel): In the rush to digitization, what are we losing about
twentieth-century print culture? What technologies and information and stories
about printing production are disappearing? What is needed to save them for
historians of print? Which organizations are collecting and preserving
technologies and stories?
Talks were presented by APHA Members Alice Beckwith,
Professor of Art History, Providence College, and Coordinator, APHA Oral
History Project, "Voices from the Digital Edge: The APHA Oral History
Project," and Paul Romaine, former Curator and Executive Director, The
Gilder Lehrman Collection, and Vice-President for Membership, APHA,
"Preserving Printing Artifacts: Museums, Associations and Individuals."
See previous conference topics.
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