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The Annual Conference
Since 1976, the American Printing History Association has organized an annual conference on a selected theme in printing history. In the early years the annual conference was invariably held in New York City, but since the mid 1980s the organization has sought venues further afield. Conferences typically consist of a day or two of formal papers, presentations, and panels combined with tours of local collections, studios and other spots of interest to historians of printing. There are also plenty of opportunities for socializing and fellowship.
Information on the upcoming 2013 Conference
Conference papers are usually summarized in the APHA Newsletter; indeed, many of them have been published in APHA's semi-annual journal, Printing History.
Past conferences
The following is a complete list of APHA conferences
(held in New York City unless otherwise noted).
2012
At the Crossroads: Living Letterform Tradtions at Columbia College Chicago
2011
Printing at the Edge: 36th Annual Conference at UC San Diego
2010
Learning to Print, Teaching to Print at the
Corcoran College of Art + Design, Washington, DC
2009
The Book Beautiful at the Redwood Library, Newport Public Library, and Newport Art Museum, Rhode Island
2008
Saving the History of Printing at the Grolier Club and Columbia University, New York
2007
Transformations: The Persistence of Aldus Manutius at the University of California Library, Los Angeles
2006
The Atlantic World of Print in the Age of Franklin at the University of Pennsylvania and the Library Company of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
2005
[r]Evolution in Print: New Work in Printing History & Practice at Mills College, Oakland, CA
2004
Picture This: The Art and Technique of Illustration at the University of Delaware, Newark, DE
2003
New Work in Printing History at the Grolier Club, New York
2002
A New England Wayzgoose at the Museum of Printing History, North Andover, MA [Not a formal conference]
2001
Transatlantic Type: Anglo-American Printing in the Nineteenth Century at Washington University, St. Louis, MO
2000
On the Digital Brink at Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
1999
Fine Book Design in the Twentieth Century at the Grolier Club, New York
1998
Chicago Printing History at the Newberry Library, Chicago
1997
Twentieth-Century Book Design at the University of Texas, Austin
1996
Twentieth-Century Traditions of Fine Printing in California at the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA
1995
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Printing: The Book in Jefferson's Virginia and the Early Republic at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville
1994
APHA at Twenty: Celebrating the Past, Looking to the Future at the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York
1993
The Humanist Printer in Providence, RI
1992
Printing and Publishing History at Princeton: Materials and Methodologies at Princeton University, Princeton
1991
A Washington Wayzgoose at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC
1990
The Printing of American Newspapers from 1690 Into the Future at Columbia University, New York
1989
Colonial New England Printing at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
1988
The Book Arts in Philadelphia, 1785-1840 in Philadelphia
1987
Government Printing in the Western Hemisphere: Technology, Design, Politics
1986
The Printing Surface
1985
Printing Without Type
1984
Eighteenth-Century Anglo-American Printing and Publishing
1983
Twentieth-Century American Typography and Typographers
1982
Nineteenth-Century America: Book Trade Technology and Social History
1981
The Mark of the Printer: Fine Commercial Printing in the Machine Age
1980
The Permanence of Ephemera
1979
The Renaissance Book
1978
The Decorated Book/The Crystal Goblet: A Reconsideration
1977
Printing Revolutions: The First Two and What They Can Teach the Third
1976
Typographic America: A Bicentennial Perspective
David Pankow to deliver the 2013 Lieberman Lecture. Details.
The APHA board has agreed to move forward with a redesign of the APHA website. The front page will feature articles, news and a calendar, and will replace the pdf newsletter. While a Summer launch is expected, the editor is now seeking short articles of 200-400 words in length, plus images. Please write to website@printinghistory.org.
The 2013 Winter Newsletter, featuring a summary of the Annual Meeting in New York is now available. Download or read online.
Individual and Institutional Awards for distinguished achievement in printing history were presented at our Annual membership Saturday, January 26.
Details.
Back issues of Printing History are now on sale at a deep discount at Rochester Institute of Technology Press
The complete listing of Printing History's contents have been put back online. See the contents (and a few select articles) from the Original Series, or a complete listing of the New Series. See something you like? Order Directly from RIT Press.