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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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- 2016 - Mary Jay
- 2015 - Elena Evgrafova
- 2014 - Claire Squires
- 2013 - Mark Coker
- 2012 - Anneli Høier
- 2011 - John B. Thompson
- 2010 - Thomas Steinfeld
- 2009 - Alberto Manguel
- 2008 - Emilia Lodigiani
- 2007 - A.S. Byatt
- 2006 - Martha Woodmansee
- 2005 - Jamie Byng
- 2004 - Michael Krüger
- 2003 - Eva Bonnier
- 2002 - Suzanne Brøgger
- 2001 - Michael Joyce
- 2000 - Tim Waterstone
- 1999 - John Sutherland
- 1998 - Peter Mayer
- 1997 - P.D. James
- 1996 - Janice Radway
- 1995 - Hans Hertel
- 1994 - Robert Darnton
Mary Jay - African publishing in a globalised world
Adam Helms Lecture 2016
Elena Evgrafova - Three phenomena of book publishing — today and tomorrow
Adam Helms Lecture 2015
Claire Squires - The Red Pen, the Publisher and the University
Adam Helms Lecture 2014
Mark Coker - The future of book publishing
Adam Helms Lecture 2013
Anneli Høier - Den litterära agenten då och nu
Adam Helms Lecture 2012
John B. Thompson - Merchants of Culture - The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century
Adam Helms Lecture 2011
Thomas Steinfeld - De griniga, de gråtfärdiga och de glada - Om kritiken i ett samhälle där alla är kritiska
Adam Helms Lecture 2010
Alberto Manguel - The End of Reading
Adam Helms Lecture 2009
Emilia Lodigiani - The importance of being earnest and the tricky privilege of publishing Scandinavian literature in Italy
Adam Helms Lecture 2008
The lecture was not filmed.
A. S. Byatt - Ghosts and Documents - The relation between history, biography and fiction
Adam Helms Lecture 2007
The lecture was not filmed.
Martha Woodmansee - Publishers, Privateers, Pirates. 18th Century German Book Piracy Revisited
Adam Helms Lecture 2006
The lecture was not filmed.
Jamie Byng - Nonconformity: How to Survive as an Independent Publisher
Adam Helms Lecture 2005
The lecture was not filmed.
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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