1. Sebastian Carter (Independent practitioner), 'The Tools of the Trade'
2. Victoria Mills (Birkbeck College, University of London), 'The Letter Forms of a Victorian 'Art-Workman"
3. Lida Lopes Cardozo Kindersley and Roxanne Kindersley (The Cardozo Kindersley Workshop), 'Lettercutting: A Legacy'

Lunch and registration (English Faculty foyer)

Panel 2: Materialities

Chair: Jason Scott-Warren (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge)

1. Tom Frith-Powell (The Paper Foundation)
2. Matteo Seita (St Johns College, Cambridge), 'The Form and Structure of Metals: Divorced in Scale, Married in History'
3. Farah Hadi (Anglia Ruskin University), 'Modern History of Arabic Type: The Reforming Projects of the Arabic Script'

Coffee / Tea Break (English Faculty foyer)

Panel 3: Scribal Forms

Chair: Suzanne Paul (University Library)

1. Marc Michaels (University of Cambridge), 'Sefer Tagin: Olde Face, Semi-ligatures and Slab-serifs, Ancient Allographs of Letter Forms, Preserved in the Dead Sea Scrolls'
2. Patricia Lovett (Independent practitioner), 'Quills, Ink, Vellum, Letterforms'

Wine reception and canapés

Robert Cripps Gallery, New Library, Magdalene College (a Stirling Prize-winning building, with Cardozo Kindersley Workshop inscriptions in the foyer: see map at end programme for directions)

[N.B. the Gallery is currently hosting an exhibition of small sculptures by Rachel Whiteread. It is a condition of the loan that no food is consumed in the Gallery and that no photographs are taken of the sculptures. We hope you enjoy the exhibition.]

Registration and Coffee / Tea (English Faculty foyer)

10.00-11.30

Chair: Alessandro Bianchi (University Library)

1. Elaine Treharne (Stanford University), 'Some Medieval Sources for the Lettering of David Jones'
2. Audrey Gao (Stanford University), 'Stanford SILICON and Digitally Disadvantaged Languages'
3. Joshua Fitzgerald (University of Edinburgh), 'Aztec Capital Amplifications: Illuminated Embellishments and New Lettering in the Earliest Christian Scriptures of the Americas'

Panel 5: Literature and the Letter

Chair: Jessica Berenbeim (Jesus College, Cambridge)

1. Nicholas Dunn-McAfee (University of York), 'Painted Words: Letters In, On, For and About the Inaugural Pre-Raphaelite Artwork'
2. India Oswin (University of Cambridge), 'Gesture, Affect, Line: Alison Bielski's Monogrammatic Letter Forms'
3. Marcus Waithe (Magdalene College, Cambridge), 'Modelling Character: Stone Inscriptions in the Page World of the Victorian Novel'

Lunch (English Faculty foyer)

Panel 6: Beyond Pen and Type

Chair: Orietta Da Rold (St John's College, Cambridge)

1. Susan Hufton (Independent Scholar), 'Weaving Letters'
2. Craig Eliason (University of St. Thomas), 'Embroidered Samplers Then, Graffiti Throwups Now: The Forces Shaping Lettering Beyond Pen and Type'
3. Jane Partner (Trinity Hall, Cambridge), 'Embodying Letters: Research and Practice'

Coffee / Tea (English Faculty foyer)

Panel 7: Modernities

Chair: Ruth Abbott (St John's College, Cambridge)

1. John Neilson (Independent Practitioner), 'Can't You Carve Straight?'
2. Paul Stirton (Independent Scholar), 'Rudolf Koch and Jan Tschichold: Modern Letterforms in Weimar Germany'
3. Humphrey Stone (Independent Practitioner), 'Father and Son: Letterer and Typographer'

Conference Dinner, Magdalene College, Hall

Registration (English Faculty foyer)

Note the earlier start and end time, to allow for the walk to the University Library.

Object Display with Visit to Historical Printing Room

Meeting in the English Faculty by 8.45 at the latest to walk to the location promptly.

Panel 8: Research Projects

Chair: Tessa Webber (Trinity College, Cambridge)

1. Maciej M. Pawlikowski (University Library), Marcos Martinón-Torres (University of Cambridge), and Emily Watt (University of Cambridge), 'Crafting Typographic Punches in 18th-Century England: The Small Performances Project'
2. Riccardo Olocco (Independent practitioner), 'John Baskerville's Type Design and Its Digital Revival'
3. Catherine Sutherland (Pepys Library, Magdalene College), 'Pepys's Collection of Handwriting and the Fragmentarium Project'

Lunch (English Faculty foyer)

Panel 9: From Calligraphy to Inscription

Chair: Aaron Koller (University of Cambridge)

1. Ellis Tinios (Independent Scholar), 'Calligraphy in Print in Early Modern Japan'
2. Noam Schechter (Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem), 'Two Critical Flaws in Hebrew Italic Design: Reassessing Direction and Form'
3. Jessica Berenbeim (Jesus College, Cambridge), 'Prophetic Letters'

Coffee / Tea (English Faculty foyer)

16.00-16.30