“APHA @ 50: Printing History Past, Present and Future”

October 17–19, 2024 (All times U.S. Eastern Daylight Time/UTC-04:00 unless otherwise noted)

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17

4:00-6:00 p.m. Registration (The Grolier Club, New York City)

4:00-5:15 p.m.  Workshop (The Grolier Club, In-Person)

• Paul Shaw, “The History of Type in Twelve Type Specimens”

6:00–7:15 p.m. Opening Keynote (The Grolier Club, In-Person and Live-Streamed)

• Lisa Gitelman, “Typographic Hallucination, Or, A Conversation Imagined Between Artificial Intelligence and the Printing Trades”

7:15–8:30 p.m. Opening Reception (The Grolier Club, In-Person)

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18

9:45–10:00 a.m. Welcome (Virtual)

10:00-11:15 a.m. Papers Session 1 (Virtual)

• Julie Mellby, “Fit to Print: The Museum of the History of the Recorded Word”
• Berta Ferrer, “The Unconventional Novel in the Twenty-First Century: Printed Narratives Influenced by Digital Media”
• Robyn Phillips-Pendleton, “The Role of Printing History, Archives, and Research in the Imprinted: Illustrating Race Exhibition”

11:15-11:30 a.m. Break

11:30 a.m.–12:45 p.m. Papers Session 2 (Virtual)

• Xena Becker, “Honing Her Craft: Women in the Arts and Crafts Printing Movement”
• Anne Ricculli, “‘Mimeographed and Securely Bound’: The Printing History of Unwritten History of Slavery (1945)”
• Sandra Wilson & Robert Jackson, “Correspondences Between Damascening and Mezzotint”

12:45–1:45 p.m. Lunch Break

1:45–3:00 p.m. Papers Session 3 (Virtual)

• Josef Beery, “Ben Lieberman and the 2016 Bookbeetle Press”
• Helena de Lemos & Jocelyn Pedersen, “The History of Printing Inspires a New Generation at an Undergraduate Liberal Arts College”
• Katherine M. Ruffin, “The Bibliographical Press Movement: A Twenty-First Century Perspective”

3:30–5:00 p.m. Tour (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, In-Person)

• Jared Ash (Florence and Herbert Irving Museum Librarian), “Innovative Printing in The Met’s Thomas J. Watson Library”

9:00–10:00 p.m. EDT/6:00–7:00 p.m. PDT Keynote Panel (The CODEX Foundation, Berkeley, In-Person and Live-Streamed)

• Macy Chadwick & Felicia Rice, “Vibrant Women in Print and Their Influences: In Conversation with Macy Chadwick and Felicia Rice”

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19

10:00-11:15 a.m. Papers Session 4 (Virtual)

• Joost Depuydt, “Wonderful Woodblocks and Curious Copper Plates: The Hidden Gems Behind Printed Maps”
• Maggie Erwin, “Studying Sloped Feet: A Pulled Sort in Wynkyn De Worde’s 1495 edition of De Proprietatibus Rerum”

11:15-11:30 a.m. Break

11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Papers Session 5 (Virtual)

• Kitty Maryatt, “Slow Printing: Pochoir and Collotype in France, Katagami and Silkscreen in Japan”
• Lisa Rosowsky, “Sauf Conduit: The Art and Craft of Document Forgery in World War II France”

12:30–1:30 p.m. Lunch Break

1:30–2:30 p.m. Papers Session 6 (Virtual)

• Ryan Cordell &  Isabella Viega, “The Past Is Ever Present: The Resurgence of Letterpress Printing in Higher-Education Institutions”
• Mark J. Noonan, “The Forgotten William Bradford, New York’s First Printer”

2:30–3:00 p.m. Announcements and Closing Remarks (Virtual)

4:00–5:00 p.m.  Exhibition Tour (Center for Book Arts, New York City, In-Person)

• Robbin Ami Silverberg, “Vico’s Spiral: Half Century of Artists’ Books”

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