Programme announcement for the conference
Beyond the printing press: alternative means of production in the global history of print
An international conference to be held at the Royal Asiatic Society, London
26 June 2019
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Keynote speakers:
ANINDITA GHOSH (University of Manchester)
Print? What print? The many ways of reading, listening, singing, and (re)producing printed text in an age of print
YAIR WALLACH (SOAS, University of London)
Metal, ceramic, stone: a textual landscape in crisis in Ottoman and British-ruled Jerusalem
All speakers:
MARK BALMFORTH (Columbia University)
Palm-leaf methods at the inception of Print: Tamil reading practices at the American Ceylon Mission
PAUL BEVAN (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford | SOAS, London)
The cloth banknote of the Sichuan-Shaanxi Soviet Government Workers and Farmers Bank
CHARLOTTE BISZEWSKI (Eugeniusz Geppert Academy, Wrocław)
Mechanics of change: resistance, printed ephemera, and ‘alternative futures’
(TBC) RICARDA BROSCH (Victoria & Albert Museum, London)
The ‘Typographia Sinica’: a key to the Berlin Clavis?
(TBC) RIGZIN CHODON (Ladakh Arts and Media Organization, Leh)
Early twentieth century missionary newspapers in Ladakh and Kyelang
JAMES A. FLATH (Western University, Canada)
The New Year woodblock print as an alternative to lithography in modern China
CAMILLO FORMIGATTI (Bodleian Library, Oxford)
Sanskrit manuscripts, lithographs, and incunabula: notes on print terminology and layout
(TBC) ZAHRA SHAH (Government College University, Lahore)
Typography in a world of lithography: print industries in nineteenth- century north India
DEBORAH SOLOMON (Otterbein University, Westerville, Ohio)
Gariban print technology in colonial Korea
VAIBHAV SINGH (University of Reading)
The elusive writing machine: typewriters in India and the new age of manuscript production
MEI XIN WANG (British Museum, London)
Tracing the origins of Chinese printing
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For the full list of speakers and abstracts of the talks, please see: https://www.contextualternate.com/conference02
To attend the conference, registration (£20) in advance is required. Refreshments will be served during the conference.
PLEASE REGISTER BY 22 JUNE 2019
(Registration link: https://www.contextualternate.com/conference02#cf02-02)