Bookselling Research Network Events 2023

The Bookselling Research Network operates as a partnership between the Stephen Colclough Centre at Bangor University and The Centre for Publishing at UCL. It is an international network of researchers, booksellers, publishers, and people and associations from around the world who share a common interest in the history, practice, and culture of bookselling.

17 November 2023 — Conversation with Re-Imagining Bookstores
Praveen Madan, Peggy Holman, and Amanda Hall — the Re-Imagining Bookstores movement
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27 October 2023 — The Art of Libromancy: On Selling Books and Reading Books in the Twenty-first Century
Josh Cook, bookseller and co-owner of Porter Square Books
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26 May 2023 — Booksellers and Bookstores in Mainland China: the Age of Common Prosperity
Simon Mahony, Professor of Digital Humanities at Beijing Normal University and Emeritus Professor at University College, London.
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31 March 2023 — The Spaces of Bookselling with Kristen Highland
Kristen Highland, Assistant Professor of English, American University of Sharjah, UAE
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24 February 2023 — Feminist & Queer Bookshops – Community and Censure
Dr Kathy Liddle (Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto Scarborough) and Dr Sarah Pyke (MHRA Postdoctoral Research Associate at Anglia Ruskin University)
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