News

Due to last minute cancellations 4 extra places are available for the second week's course in Venice. Although the applications can no longer be accepted online, you can still email Ewelina Warner (e.warner@camberwell.arts.ac.uk) expressing your interest. The deadline for these applications is the 15th of August.

Please visit: http://www.ligatus.org.uk/summerschool/

On Thursday 3rd February 2011 at 6:00 p.m. in the Rootstein Hopkins East Space, London College of Fashion, John Princes Street,
Professor Nicholas Pickwoad will give a lecture “Finding Words- The Ligatus Glossary Project” as a part of the UAL Professorial Platform.

The Study Day will be concentrated around Saint Catherine’s Monastery at Mount Sinai, its manuscripts and their conservation and will take place at Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, University of Oxford on Saturday, 27 November.

Please join us to celebrate the launch of 'The Portable John Latham'.

A collection of unpublished or rarely seen documents from the John Latham Archive Edited by Antony Hudek and Athanasios Velios

Thursday 15 July 2010, 6­9pm

Whitechapel Gallery
77­ 82 Whitechapel High Street
London E1 7QX

Published by Occasional Papers in association with Whitechapel Gallery, London, on the occasion of the exhibition John Latham: Anarchive, 2 April­ - 5 September 2010

Funded by Ligatus/Camberwell College of Arts With the support of AHRC, Cassochrome and the John Latham Foundation.

The International Institute of Book & paper Conservators has invited Professor Nicholas Pickwoad to talk about Book Boxes: A New Design in Stainless Steel during the symposium "Out of sight - Out of mind?"

The symposium, which is taking place in National Museum in Prague from 27-28 May will be dedicated to the broad theme of collection management of paper-related cultural heritage. Presentations should focus on issues such as storage, storage environment, enclosures, digitization, risk management and related subjects.

Opening reception: 6th January 2010, 6pm
The Incidental Person

1 object explored for 7 days, 24 hours a day, by a rolling team of researchers from the arts and sciences.

Object Retrieval is a project by artist Joshua Sofaer and is curated by Simon Gould in association with UCL Museums & Collections. The website for the project has been created by the Ligatus Research Unit. Object Retrieval has a simple premise - to uncover as much information as possible about one object from UCL’s Museums & Collections in the space of 7 days.

The Trustees of the John Latham Foundation announced the opening of Flat Time House (FTHo), the home of the late artist, to the public on 2 October 2008.

As of yesterday, 15 September, Antony Hudek is the new Research Fellow who has joined Ligatus to work on the John Latham Archive. Antony brings strong art historian and archiving experience to the project alongside excellent academic skills. He will be based in both the Flat-Time-House and the Ligatus office and his primary role will be to implement a classification system for the JLA documents based on John Latham's cosmological ideas.

A reception was held at the Great Hall of Lambeth Palace on 13 May 2008
to celebrate the official launch of the Ligatus Research Unit. Over 130
guests attended, representing a diverse range of interests, both
academic, practical and commercial.

[inline:LigatusLaunch11.JPG=Lambeth Palace Photo Naomi Hodgkin]

Professor Nicholas Pickwoad, Director of Ligatus, made a short speech in
which he gave an overview of the plans and goals of Ligatus. He stated
that bookbinding constitutes a substantial and hugely under-exploited