William turner of oxford biography podcast

Exploring Chaucer Here and Now. Loading Video Video Embed Code. Embed HELP. In this webinar, Professor Marion Turner introduces some of the themes of Chaucer Here and Now, the exhibition currently on view at the Weston Library. People: Marion Turner. Oxford Unit: Bodleian Libraries. Keywords: chaucer manuscript medieval. What opportunities might queer methods and approaches provide?

Organised by Oxford Bibliographical Society. Chaired by Adam Smyth Oxford University. In this lecture, Matthew Kirschenbaum considers textual stability, a concern of publishers and readers since before the advent of printing, in the post-digital era.

William turner of oxford biography podcast

Books are not dead as was once feared. But they are not the same either. With digital processes and workflows now thoroughly integrated into the art and industry of publishing and printing them, books are altered by the post-digital moment in which we have arrived. How stable are texts when the book is now manifest as a collection of digital assets, a network which only might, at times, assume the physical and tangible form of the familiar codex?

Social documentary photographer Jim Mortram and photographer and publisher Craig Atkinson ponder why should we care about photography? Why take photographs? Why preserve them. Why should we care about photography? Why preserve them? Social documentary photographer Jim Mortram and photographer and publisher Craig Atkinson ponder these questions and more, using their own work as guides towards a photography that is humane and politically-engaged.

Jim Mortram is an award-winning social documentary photographer and the creator of Small Town Inertia. Craig Atkinson is an award-winning publisher, artist and lecturer. Thomas Gravemaker explores the history of wood type printing as well as his own recent manufacture using digital design and a CNC router. Wood type has a history as long as printing itself.

Thomas Gravemaker, Printer in Residence at the Bodleian Bibliographical Press during Marchtells the story of the materials, manufacture and use of wood type since the nineteenth century and brings this up to date with an account of his own recent manufacture using digital design and a CNC router. Geoffrey Batchen explores the first fifty years of photography in Britain.

By identifying the key themes addressed in the exhibitions, Batchen shows how photography intersected with all aspects of a nascent modernity, helping to make Britain the society it is today. This relatively unexplored path to mapping and digitisation should in turn present fascinating new avenues of exploration and research, as it reveals aspects of the item hitherto unrealised or recorded.

This session demonstrates how the technology is used and the benefits it brings to researchers of manuscripts. Drawing on a detailed survey of shareholders of the Marconi in andthis lecture will trace an overall profile of the diverse categories of investors who dared to back this venture through it's experimental phase to becoming commercially viable.

Loading Video Audio Embed Code. Embed HELP. Series: Chaucer for Beginners. People: Marion Turner Karen Carey. More in this Series Chaucer for Beginners. Subscribe Apple Podcasts Audio.