Printed Matters, Publishing and Urban Culture

11th - 13th September 1997, Newcastle upon Tyne

Publishing and the Urban Environment

The role of the printing and booktrades in the development of Lyon from the 15th to the 19th centure: Dominique Varry , University of Lyno
Readers, Browsers, Strangers, Spectators: Narrative forms and Metropolitan Encounters in the turn-of-the-century metropolis: Peter Fritzsche , University of Illinois
Money, Politics, Art and the press in the Radical Republic in Paris c.1900-1914: Fay Brauer, University of New South Wales

Cultural Networks and the dissemination of knowledge

The authorship and the readership of early modern alchemical texts: Brian Gibbons, University of Northumbria
Gender and the Business of Books: the Role of Women in Scotland's Early modern Book Trade: Alastair Mann, University of Stirling
'The Cultured City': networks, strategies and representation in the art press of Berlin and Paris between the wars: Malcolm Gee, University of Northumbria
Thomas Mann and 'The German Republic': Jonathan Glynne, Camberwell College of Art

Image and Place

The Image of the City in Posters of War and Peace c.1890-1918: Linas Eriksonas, Charles University Prague
The contribution of France and Germany to the world wide picture postcard craze of the early 1900s: George Webber, St. Peter Port

The illicit

Neutrality under threat: freedon, Use and @Abuse@ o fthe press in Switzerland: Debbie Lewer, Manchester Metropolitan University
Text and Image in the construction of an urban readership: Allied propaganda in France during World War II: Valerie Holman, University of Westminster
Official and unofficial publishing in Czechoslovakia in the 1970s and 1980s: Jirina Smejkalova, Centre for Gender Studies Prague