12.30-4.30pm, 19 June, The John Rylands Library

Please join us from 12.30 pm for a symposium on visual elements in letters at the John Rylands Library on Deansgate. The introduction and collection encounter will start at 1.30 pm. Speakers include Bruce Wilkinson (Research Associate, John Rylands Research Institute), Dr Sophie Baldock (Early Career Research Fellow, John Rylands Research Institute and Teaching Fellow, Harlaxton College), and Dr Luke Skrebowski (Lecturer in Contemporary Art, University of Manchester). For more information (including abstracts), see the Eventbrite link below.

Programme outline

12.30–1.30 – lunch
1.30–1.45 – introduction
1.45–2.30 – collection encounter with Jessica Smith, Creative Arts Archivist
2.30–3 – paper + Q&A: Bruce Wilkinson, ‘Global Tapestry: Postal Images of Poetry & Counterculture’
3–3.20 – break
3.20–4.20 – papers + Q&A: Sophie Baldock, ‘Miniature Portraits in the Letters of Elizabeth Bishop of Robert Lowell’; Luke Skrebowski, ‘Reading Martha Rosler’s Postcard Novels’
4.20–4.30 – closing remarks

The event is free but places are limited, so please remember to book your place via our Eventbrite page.

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