The Place of Bindings
The Place of bindings
in book history and bibliography: resources and research
in book history and bibliography: resources and research
Royal Geographical Society
1 Kensington Gore
London, SW7 2AR
United Kingdom
2nd November 2017
10.00-17.30
The conference will present different perspectives on the context of 1920s Egypt in relation to Boissonnas’s work and explore wider debates around photography and cultural geography.
The conference will be followed by a private view of the exhibition from 17.30-19.30.
Friday 2 June 2017, Room 349, Senate House
A gathering of family, friends, colleagues and all who have learnt from him to celebrate the life and work of Christopher Clarkson.
Please book here: https://is.gd/Christopher_Clarkson
Lunch and refreshments will be available from 12.00 noon. In the afternoon, for those who would like to see them, there will be a showing in an adjoining room of two films which show Chris at work.
The event will draw to a close at around 16.45.
Tuesday 9 February 2016
6-9PM
The Red Room
Chelsea College of Arts
16 John Islip St
London SW1P 4JU
The Ligatus Research Centre is delighted to announce a public lecture by Professor Petros Koufopoulos on the history and development of the Parthenon Restoration Project.
Professor Koufopoulos spent 10 years working on the conservation and restoration of the famous UNESCO World Heritage Site at the Acropolis in Athens, Greece. He will speak about his experiences and the challenges and achievements of this ambitious project.
Ligatus has recently organised a workshop on the value of free/libre software in education within the context of UAL. The official event booking page is here:
http://ual.force.com/apex/EventFormPage?id=a0RD0000008msBFMAY&book=true
Watch an interview with Maria Louisa Vidriero talking about the exhibition (in Spanish) here:
Read more about the exhibition here:
http://ccaa.elpais.com/ccaa/2012/04/19/madrid/1334829285_695151.html
This Saturday, you are invited to two events that coincide with the final weekend of the exhibition 'John Latham: Anarchive' at the Whitechapel Gallery organised by the Ligatus Research Centre and supported by AHRC and PRS Foundation.
Saturday 4 September at 2pm
FLAT TIME/sounding
A composition and performance by composer/author David Toop based on John Latham's ideas of Flat Time.
Performers:
David Toop: laptops, flutes, strings, amplified processes, omnipresent score.
John Butcher: saxophones, etc...
Phil Durrant: Maschine, etc...
READING BINDINGS
Bindings as evidence of the culture and business of books
A series of three lectures by Nicholas Pickwoad
This series of lectures looks at different aspects of bookbinding to show how bindings can be interpreted and how physical evidence can offer a key not only to the history of individual books and bookbinding workshops, but also to a wider understanding of the function and value of books.
At 18.15 in the Conference Centre, British Library, Euston Road.
Lecture 1
Wednesday 26 November 2008