Arrival: 19 May 2025
5:00 – 7:00pm
Open House at Skeuomorph Press/CU Community FabLab (1301 S. Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801)
Day 1: 20 May 2025
8:30 – 9:00
Coffee & light pastries – Rare Book & Manuscript Library
9:00 – 9:45
Session 1 – Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Welcome + Agenda Setting
9:45-10:00
BREAK: Coffee + Conversation
10:00-12:00
Workshop Block 1
| Topic | Workshop Leader | Location |
| Improvisational Letterpress: Collaborative Broadside | Amelia Fontanel Rochester Institute of Technology | Skeuomorph Press |
| Printing in Difficult Times | Matthew Kirschenbaum, Kari Kraus, and/or UMD BookLab team University of Maryland | FabLab Classroom |
| Low-Fi Screenprinting x Concrete poetry | Éireann Lorsung University College Dublin | FabLab Wet Lab |
| Planning Programmatic Outreach or Strategic Goals | Colleen Barrett University of Kentucky | Fab Front/Computer Room |
| Needlework as a Means of Documenting Literacy | Jennifer Burek Pierce University of Iowa | RBML Reading Room |
| Rare Book Petting Zoo | RBML Seminar Room |
12:00-1:30
LUNCH
1:30-3:00
Session 2 – Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Roundtable: Contextualizing & Making the Case for BookLabs
- Chair: Lori Humphrey Newcomb
- University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
- Cait Coker
- University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
- Lynda Yankaskas
- Muhlenberg College
- Madeline Keyser
- Texas A&M University
- Melissa Adams-Campbell
- Northern Illinois University
3:30 – 5:30
Workshop Block 2
| Topic | Workshop Leader | Location |
| Improvisational Letterpress: Collaborative Broadside | Amelia Fontanel Rochester Institute of Technology | Skeuomorph Press |
| Printing in Difficult Times | Matthew Kirschenbaum, Kari Kraus, and/or UMD BookLab team University of Maryland | FabLab Classroom |
| Low-Fi Screenprinting x Concrete poetry | Éireann Lorsung University College Dublin | FabLab Wet Lab |
| Planning Programmatic Outreach or Strategic Goals | Colleen Barrett University of Kentucky | FabLab Front Room/Computer Room |
| Illuminated Initials | Dot Porter University of Pennsylvania | RBML Reading Room |
| Rare Book Petting Zoo | RBML Seminar Room |
6:00 – 7:30
Drinks + Lightning Talks
@ a secret speakeasy!
Lightning Talks
Teaching in BookLabs
- Kirstyn Leuner
- Santa Clara University
- Luca Messarra
- Stanford University
- Levi Sherman
- University of Wisconsin—Madison
- Todd Samuelson
- University of Utah
- Nora Cornell
- Wellesley
- Arielle VanderSchans
- Marguerite Carrithers
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- George Shuffleton
- Carleton College
8:00pm-??
Local Dine-around
Day 2: 21 May 2025
8:30 – 9:00
Coffee & light pastries – Rare Book & Manuscript Library
9:00 – 10:45
Workshop Block 3
| Topic | Workshop Leader | Location |
| Teaching Printing with the BookBeetle | Josef Beery | Fab Front/Computer Room |
| How & Why to Incorporate Letterpress into Classes | Katherine M. Ruffin Wellesley College | FabLab Classroom |
| Papermaking on a Budget | Kit MacNeil University of Toronto | FabLab Wet Lab |
| Teaching with Typewriters | Isabella Viega Goldsmiths University of London | Skeuomorph Press |
| Zines x Values: writing collab charters-as-minizines for your booklab | Amanda Visconti University of Virginia | RBML Reading Room |
| Rare Book Petting Zoo | RBML Seminar Room |
10:45-11:00
BREAK: Coffee + Conversation
11:00-12:30
Session 5 – Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Roundtable: How to Think & Talk about Research in Book Labs
- Chair: Ayesha Ramachandran
- Yale University
- Carson Koepke
- University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
- Kit MacNeil
- University of Toronto
- Kadin Henningsen
- University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
- Jonathan Koch
- Pepperdine University
- Jonathan Senchyne
- University of Wisconsin Madison
12:30-2:00
2:00-3:45
| Topic | Workshop Leader | Location |
| Teaching Printing with the BookBeetle | Josef Beery | Fab Front/Computer Room |
| How & Why to Incorporate Letterpress into Classes | Katherine M. Ruffin Wellesley College | FabLab Classroom |
| Papermaking on a Budget | Kit MacNeil University of Toronto | FabLab Wet Lab |
| Teaching with Typewriters | Isabella Viega Goldsmiths University of London | Skeuomorph Press |
| Zines x Values: writing collab charters-as-minizines for your booklab | Amanda Visconti University of Virginia | RBML Reading Room |
| Rare Book Petting Zoo | RBML Seminar Room |
3:45-4:00
BREAK: Coffee + Conversation
4:00-5:30
Session 7 – Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Roundtable: BookLab Sustainability & Funding
- Chair: Ryan Cordell
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Mary Tasillo
- Wells College
- Melanie Leung
- Folger Shakespeare Library
- Patti Harper
- Carleton University
5:30-6:00
Wrap Up & Future Agenda Setting