Lieberman Lecture

The annual Lieberman Lecture commemorates J. Ben Lieberman (1914–1984), founder and first president of the American Printing History Association. The lecture is a moveable feast, given at a different institution each year, by a figure distinguished in the history of printing or the book arts.

Year	Speaker	Topic	Hosting Institution
2023	Harry Reese	From Gutenberg to the Gallery: Five Decades of Print and Book Art From Turkey Press	The Letterform Archive, San Francisco (in-person and virtual)
2022	Danielle Aubert	The Power and Promise of a Union: Labor, Printing, and Graphic Design	Wayne State University (virtual)
2021	Derrick Spires	The Landscape of Black Bibliographic Digital Resources, and New Information about Abolitionist Printer William Howard Day	Cornell University (virtual)
2020	Jennifer Farrell	The City Is My Religion: A Typographic Memoir	Rochester Institute of Technology (virtual)
2019	Colette Gaiter	Outside In: Image and Words of Assimilation and Resistance in American Print History (Presented during the 2019 Conference)	University of Maryland, College Park
2018	Sarah Werner	Working Towards a Feminist History of Printing	Library of Congress
2017	Kathleen Walkup	History of Women Printers	University of Iowa Center for the Book
2016	Matthew Carter	Genuine Imitations: A Type Designer's View of Revivals	The Museum of Printing, Haverhill, MA
2015	Barbara Hodgson	The WunderCabinet* The Curious Worlds of Barbara Hodgson & Claudia Cohen	University of California, Los Angeles
2014	Herbert H. Johnson	Anatomy of a Type Design: Centaur by Bruce Rogers	Rochester Institute of Technology
2013	David Pankow	Reproductive Arts in America: Lithography Challenges Letterpress	San Francisco Public Library
2012	Russell Maret	Time Technology and the Shapes of Letters	Newberry Library
2011	John Bidwell	Early American Paper Mills	Huntington Library
2010	Betsy Davids	Palm Leaf to Book: A South Asia Quest	The Book Club of California
2009	John Kristensen	The Book [Broadside, Business Card & Birth Announcement] Beautiful	Wellesley College
2008	[no lecture]
2007	Sue Allen	A Doubly Fascinating Book: Hawthorne's Wonder Book Illustrated by Walter Crane	Grolier Club (delivered in 2008)
2006	Henry Morris	Paper: There wouldn't be any Printing History without It	Princeton University
2005	Richard-Gabriel Rummonds	Abandoned by a Married Man: the Long and Treacherous Path to the Iron Handpress	University of San Francisco
2004	John Downer	Trash or Fertilizer? The Uses (or Not) of History in Type Design	Newberry Library (delivered in 2005)
2003	Roderick Stinehour	In Conversation with Jerry Kelly	Wellesley College
2002	Jack Stauffacher	In Conversation with Matthew Carter	Getty Center
2001	Johanna Drucker	Iliazd: The Poet Publisher and the Art of the Book	Smithsonian Institution
2000	John Randle	Ink, Type and Serendipity	Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania
1999	Barry Moser	After the Bible: Dreams	Iowa Center for the Book
1998	Kenneth E. Carpenter	Printing Culture and Library Revolutions	Boston Public Library
1997	Robert H. Hirst	Mark Twain	Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley
1996	[no lecture]
1995	Claire Badaracco	The Memorable Text: The Printed Good in Library Design 1920–1940	University of Texas, Austin
1994	G. Thomas Tanselle	Printing History and Other History	University of Virginia
1993	Robert Bringhurst	The Painted Book	University of California, Los Angeles
1992	David Kaser	Printers of Frontier St. Louis, 1808–1850	St. Louis Mercantile Library
1991	Stephen O. Saxe	Printing on Trains, and Trains in Printing	Book Club of Texas
1990	[no lecture]
1989	Clive Griffin	Beginning of Printing and Publishing in the New World, ca 1539	John Carter Brown Library, Brown University
1988	James Gilreath	Colonial Printing	Colonial Williamsburg
1987	Paul Needham	Finding Books in Books	Lilly Library, Indiana University
1986	Claire van Vliet	30 Years as a Printer and Publisher at her Janus Press	Mills College

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