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, December 14, 2023, 5–7 pm PST |
| 2022 | Danielle Aubert | The Power and Promise of a Union: Labor, Printing, and Graphic Design | Wayne State University via Zoom, December 5, 2022 at 7 pm EST |
| 2021 | Derrick Spires | The landscape of black bibliographic digital resources and new information about abolitionist printer William Howard Day | Cornell University via Zoom Thursday, December 2, 2021 at 7 pm EST |
| 2020 | Jennifer Farrell | The City Is My Religion: A Typographic Memoir | Rochester Institute of Technology |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 1994 | G. Thomas Tanselle | Printing History and Other History | University of Virginia |
| 1993 | Robert Bringhurst | The Painted Book | University of California at 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 |