Beyond the Book: Transforming the Early Modern Archive

You are warmly invited to Beyond the Book: Transforming the Early Modern Archive, a free two-day symposium to be hosted by State Library Victoria, on 10-11 August, 2023.  

Join digital designers, specialist librarians and early modern scholars to explore how traditional archival scholarship and emerging digital technologies can combine to bring materials from the past to new audiences.

This event will celebrate the culmination of the ARC Linkage Grant project Transforming the Early Modern Archive: The John Emmerson Collection at State Library Victoria a four-year collaboration between SLV, The Australian National University, The University of Newcastle, and Victoria University, Wellington. It will feature the launch of the digital exhibition, Beyond the Book: A digital journey through the treasures of the Emmerson Collection.

ANU's Centre for Early Modern Studies is offering 10 bursaries of $500 AUD to enable HDR students to attend in person. Applications can be made here. 

Register to attend in person, watch via livestream, or access recordings afterwards.

10^th August events

• Beyond the Book: An Introduction to the Emmerson Collection
• Beyond the Book: Dive Deeper into Design, Data and Digitisation
• Public lecture: Portable Magic - Why books Matter, by Emma Smith 

11^th August events

• Beyond the Book: Full Day Symposium. 
• 2023 Foxcroft Lecture: Books in hand; but whose hands? by Christian Algar.