Typography in the Service of Scholarship Symposium
When | Nov 09, 2012 from 02:00 PM to 04:00 PM |
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Where | NL |
Programme
2:00 PM Reception
2:15 PM Welcome by Dr Perry Moree, Executive VP, BRILL
Chair: Prof. Gerry Leonidas (Course Director, MA Typeface Design, University of Reading)
Lectures by:
2:20 PM Prof. Gerry Leonidas
2:40 PM Dr Jo De Baerdemaeker (Antwerp and Reading; non-Latin type designer: Tibetan and Mongolian)
3:00–3:10 PM Break
3:10 PM Thomas Milo (DecoType, Amsterdam; linguist and creator of computer solutions for modelling the Islamic scripts)
3:30 PM John Hudson (Tiro Typeworks, BC, Canada; designer of the ‘Brill’ typeface)
4:00 PM End of the symposium. Opportunity to visit the festive opening of the exhibition Geletterd & Geleerd. Brill: 330 jaar typografie voor de wetenschap (Literate & Learned. Brill: 330 years of typography in the service of scholarship)
This symposium is held at the Museum Boerhaave, Lange St. Agnietenstraat 10, 2312 WC Leiden, The Netherlands (phone: +31-(0)71-5124 224).
Seats are limited and can be booked by contacting Esther Smit at smit@brill.com
The exhibition runs until 19 May 2013 and is open Tuesdays to Sundays from 10am (Sunday 12am) until 5pm
http://www.museumboerhaave.nl/tentoonstellingen/verwacht/geletterd-geleerd/