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Lectures from 1994 to 2004 are transcribed in the form of PDFs and can be downloaded for free. See the link under the respective title.

Lectures from 2009 to 2016 have been filmed. The subtitling of the films is in process and they will be published as soon as they are finished.

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Mary Jay - African publishing in a globalised world

Adam Helms Lecture 2016

 

 

 

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Elena Evgrafova - Three phenomena of book publishing — today and tomorrow

Adam Helms Lecture 2015

 

 

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Claire Squires - The Red Pen, the Publisher and the University

Adam Helms Lecture 2014

 

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Mark Coker - The future of book publishing

Adam Helms Lecture 2013

 

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Anneli Høier - Den litterära agenten då och nu

Adam Helms Lecture 2012

 

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John B. Thompson - Merchants of Culture - The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century

Adam Helms Lecture 2011

 

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Thomas Steinfeld - De griniga, de gråtfärdiga och de glada - Om kritiken i ett samhälle där alla är kritiska

Adam Helms Lecture 2010

 

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Alberto Manguel - The End of Reading

Adam Helms Lecture 2009

 

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Emilia Lodigiani - The importance of being earnest and the tricky privilege of publishing Scandinavian literature in Italy

Adam Helms Lecture 2008

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A. S. Byatt - Ghosts and Documents - The relation between history, biography and fiction

Adam Helms Lecture 2007

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Martha Woodmansee - Publishers, Privateers, Pirates. 18th Century German Book Piracy Revisited

Adam Helms Lecture 2006

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Jamie Byng - Nonconformity: How to Survive as an Independent Publisher

Adam Helms Lecture 2005

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Michael Krüger - Giants and Dwarfs. Notes at the End of Reading

Adam Helms Lecture 2004

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Eva Bonnier - Börs och Katedral - sex generationer Bonniers

Adam Helms Lecture 2003

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Suzanne Brøgger - Forfatter-forlægger

Adam Helms Lecture 2002

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Michael Joyce - A web of caring: The book as it was to us

Adam Helms Lecture 2001

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Tim Waterstone - Bookselling and the Digital World

Adam Helms Lecture 2000

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John Sutherland - Puzzles, Enigmas and Mysteries in the English Novel. Real Approaches to Fictional Universes

Adam Helms Lecture 1999

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Peter Mayer - Traditional Values in the Age of the Marketplace Triumphant. Publishing Today in a Global World

Adam Helms Lecture 1998

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P. D. James - Murder and Mystery. The Craft of the Detective Story

Adam Helms Lecture 1997

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Janice Radway - Books and Reading in the Age of Mass Production

Adam Helms Lecture 1996

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Hans Hertel - 500.000 £ er priesen: Bogen i mediesymbiosens tid

Adam Helms Lecture 1995

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Robert Darnton - Censorship in Comparative Perspective: France, 1789 - Germany, 1989

Adam Helms Lecture 1994

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