Debating the Book programme comes to Leeds this October
Various events, organised by the White Rose University Consortium and Ilkley Literature Festival, will aim to explore all aspects of matters bookish, past, present and future.
The programme will connect the large public in and around Leeds, Sheffield and York interested in these questions with the outstanding scholars and innovators best placed to shape informed, imaginative discussion.
Running from 3-27 October, there will be many events taking place here on campus and in the city:
4-5pm, Church House, Ilkley
(Part of the Ilkley Literature Festival)
6-8pm
Blackwell’s Bookshop, University of Leeds
Tuesday 6 October
Treasures of the Brotherton
6-7pm
Brotherton Library (Part of the Ilkley Literature Festival)
Thursday 8 October
The Future of the Book
Chaired by University Chancellor Melvyn Bragg
6-7:30pm
Great Hall
Books are my Bag
Party 8pm (after the debate)
Blackwell’s Bookshop
Saturday 10 October
The Historic Leeds Library: A Guided Tour with Becky Bowd
11am
The Leeds Library, 18 Commercial Street
Poetry Out Loud: Performance and Publication in the Digital Age with Dr Helen Mort & Dr Rachel Bower
7:30 for 8pm start
Chemic Tavern, Johnston Street
Monday 12 October
The Adventures of a Rare Book Dealer – in the Digital Age with Dr Christian White
6-7pm
School of English
Treasures of the Brotherton
6-7pm
Brotherton Library
(Part of the Ilkley Literature Festival)
Winning Friends and Influencing People: A History of the Self-Help Book with Professor Malcolm Chase
7:30-8:30pm
Ilkley Playhouse
(Part of the Ilkley Literature Festival)
The Book as Object: Workshop for Schools with Dr Jane Rickard and Ellie Johnson
4-5pm
Laidlaw Library
Thursday 15 October
Worrying: A Literary and Cultural History with Professor Francis O’Gorman
5:30-7pm
Blackwell’s Bookshop
4-5pm
School of English
(Part of the Ilkley Literature Festival)
The Historic Leeds Library: A Guided Tour with Becky Bowd
11am
The Leeds Library, 18 Commercial Street
Sunday 18 October
Editing Digitally: Ben Jonson for the 21st Century with Professor Martin Butler
6-7pm
Ilkley Playhouse
(Part of Ilkley Literature Festival)
Thursday 22 October
Life Lines: Writing Transcultural Adoption with Professor John McLeod
5:15-6:30pm
Blackwell’s Bookshop
Weeping Britannia: Portrait of a Nation in Tears
2015 C. L. Oakley Lecture in Medicine & the Arts with Dr Thomas Dixon (QMUL)
5:30-7 pm
Leeds University Business School
Tickets for The Future of the Book debate with Chancellor Melvyn Bragg on Thursday 8 October are available on eventbrite.
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