April 6 and 7, 10:30am - 5:30pm
Center for British and Irish Studies, Norlin Library
This conference brings together scholars working on a variety of textual cultures across the Asian continent, ranging from Japan to the Middle East, to consider a wide range of material and sociological aspects of the production and use of written texts: Who wrote? How did they write, using what materials and for what purpose? How does the materiality of writings relate to their function? How were texts assembled and bound to form something we might call a book?
Co-Sponsored by the Center for Asian Studies and Asian Languages and Civilizations.