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 Global Print ConferencePrinting Globalized 1776-1941November 6, 2009, 9-4pm
Location: Intellectual Commons, Doheny Memorial Library, USCThis is the third workshop in a series of international seminars examining the Global Rise of Print
Daniel Howe, UCLA Chirstopher A. Reed, Ohio State University Benedict Anderson, Cornell University
Ulrike Stark, University of Chicago Adam Shear, University of Pittsburgh Nile Green, UCLA Click on each presenter's name for details and access to pre-circulated papers. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Integrative and Contemporary Perspectives
April 30, 2010 (Tentative date)
This will be the fourth and final workshop in a series of international seminars examining the Global Rise of Print Intellectual Commons, Doheny Memorial Library, USC Recommended core reading: Elizabeth Eisenstein, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change (1979) More details to come soon. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Workshop on Print in a Global Context
April 24, 2009: Before Gutenberg: Varieties of Text Culture
 During the 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 academic years, the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute will host a series of international seminars examining the global rise of print. Lunch will be provided. Précis or full versions of papers and information on past and future events can be found at www.usc.edu/emsi. Suggested reading for the second workshop: T.H. Barrett, The Woman Who Discovered Printing (Yale U. Press, 2008); Jonathan M. Bloom, Paper Before Print: The History and Impact of Paper in the Islamic World (Yale U. Press, 2001); M. T. Clanchy, “Parchment and Paper: Manuscript Culture 1000-1500” and Lotte Hellinga, “The Gutenberg Revolution”, in Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose, A Companion to the History of the Book (Blackwell, 2007). The essays in this volume on “The Book Beyond the West” are of varying quality but at least are useful for bibliography. 9:30am – 12noon: Text and Islam
Jonathan Bloom, Boston College, “Paper in the Medieval Mediterranean World”, done for another conference and in limited circulation; “The background behind ‘Paper in the Medieval Mediterranean World”. Author, Paper Before Print; see above. 1:30-4:30: The Rest.Karl R. Schaefer, Drake University, “What was the true extent of medieval Arabic block printing?” Author, Enigmatic Charms: Medieval Arabic Block Printed Amulets in American and European Libraries and Museums (Brill, 2006). Click here for the paper Schaeferpaper.docJohan Elverskog, Southern Methodist University, “The Rise and Fall of Islamic Blockprinting” Click here for paper Elverskogpaper Joseph Dane, University of Southern California, “PC Mythology and Some Fifteenth-Century Printing Types”.Author, The Myth of Print Culture: Essays on Evidence, Textuality, and Bibliographical Method (Toronto, 2003). James McHugh, University of Southern California, “Producing a Book in Medieval Bengal According to Ballalasena’s Ocean of Giving” Charlotte Furth, Joan Piggott, Jack Wills, Kyung Moon Hwang, and Arnold Olds, all University of Southern California, Round table on T.H. Barrett, The Woman Who Discovered Printing, the Japanese case of the “Million Pagodas” and other aspects of East Asian origins. For Charlotte Furth's comments on the conference, please click here FurthComments.doc The Institute thanks USC College, the Huntington Library, the Mellon Foundation and East Asian Studies Center for support of this program. For more detailed information on this workshop or on the series please click here: Global_Print_Seminar.doc ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ This is the first workshop in a series of international seminars examining the Global Rise of Print
Japan and the WorldOctober 24, 2008Suggested reading for the first workshop: Mary Elizabeth Berry, Japan in Print: Information and Nation in the Early Modern Period (U. California Pr., 2007); Cynthia Brokaw, “Book History in Premodern China: The State of the Discipline I,” Book History, 10 (2007), 253-290. 9:30am – 12noon: Comparing Japan, China, and EuropeKai Wing Chow, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Publicity, Publics, and Print: Steles and Law in Qing China”. Click here for the Paper Kai_Wing_Chow.pdfLynn Struve, Indiana University-Bloomington, “Print, Manuscript, and News of Disaster” Sean Roberts, USC, “Map, Image, Manuscript, Print in the Early Modern Mediterranean”. Click here for the Paper Lynn_Struve_Paper.pdf Sean Roberts, USC, "Map, Image, Manuscript, Print in the Early Modern Mediterranean". Click here for the Paper Sean_Roberts.pdf Kyung Moon Hwang, USC, “Print in Korea: An Introduction” Jack Wills, USC, “Print and Polycentrism: Chinese Perspectives on Early Modern Europe and Japan”. Click here for the Paper John_E._Wills.pdf Peter Mancall, USC, “How Hakluyt Knew” 1:30-4:30: Reflections and DeparturesMary Elizabeth Berry, UC Berkeley, “Japan in Print in Global Contexts” David Zaret, Indiana University-Bloomington, “Print and the Creation of an Active Public”. Click here for Paper David_Zaret.pdf Charlotte Furth, USC, “Print Before Print Culture: Reflections on the Early History of Texts and Their Duplication” Nile Green, UCLA, “Islam and South Asia” (introduction to later seminars) ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ |