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Radical print in London archives

28 October 2022, 10:00 am–2:00 pm

A cardboard box viewed from above, full with different stacks of prints. The prints are A4 or smaller, have different colours, different fonts and display different patterns

This symposium follows on from the Crafting Subversion: DIY and Decolonial Print exhibition at the Brunei Gallery earlier this year.

This event is free.

Event Information

Open to

All

Availability

Yes

Cost

Free

Organiser

Pragya Dhital

Location

IAS Common Ground (G11)
G11, Ground Floor, South Wing, Wilkins Building
UCL, Gower Street, London
WC1E 6BT
United Kingdom

This symposium will bring together curators and archivists who contributed material to the exhibition at the Brunei Gallery, but will also involve curators from other London-based libraries with important collections of DIY and radical print.

The event will be an opportunity for students, librarians and researchers to learn about these collections, with a view to encouraging further research and fostering collaborations. It will also be an opportunity to sound out interest in a project on radical print in London - print that was both ‘radical’ in content (anti-slavery, anti-colonial, anti-capitalist, anti-racist), and also in the way it was produced and distributed (through DIY and low-tech print technology, by cooperatives, through public copyright, through the mail).

Schedule

10:00-10:30 INTRODUCTIONS

10:30-11:30 PANEL 1: PRINT TECHNOLOGY AND INSTRUMENTS OF PROSCRIPTION

Julie Melrose (Archivist, Haringey Archive and Museum Service)
The Gestetner Collection in Bruce Castle Museum

Graham Shaw (The School of Advanced Study and former Head of the Asia, Pacific & Africa Collections at the British Library)
The British Library’s collection of publications proscribed by the Government of India

11:30-12:30 PANEL 2: SAMIZDAT

Wojciech Janik (Area Librarian for Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Eurasia, SSEES)
Polish samizdat literature in the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) archives

Olga Topol (Curator, Slavonic and Eastern European Collections, the British Library)
Czech and Polish samizdat literature in the British Library

12:30-13:00 LUNCH

13:00-14:00 PANEL 3: ZINES AND PAMPHLETS

Laurence Byrne (Curator, Printed Heritage, British Library)
Zines and DIY print in the British Library

Leila Kassir (Librarian, Modern Collections, Senate House)
The Ron Heisler collection at Senate House

 

For more information and to sign-up to the event, please write to Pragya Dhital - p.dhital@ucl.ac.uk

Funded by the Centre for Critical Heritage Studies

Supported by UCL Department of History

exhibition poster from the Brunei Gallery displaying the title at the top: Crafting Subversion. DIY and Decolonial Print. Below is an image of an abstracted, ornamentated face, sword between teeth, wearing a scarf on head that is reminiscent of a turban.