CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
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Keynote speakers:

Professor Robin Jeffrey (National University of Singapore)
Dr Lucie Ryzova (University of Birmingham)
Graham Shaw (University of London, ex-British Library)
Professor Ulrike Stark (University of Chicago)

DAY 1 • Thursday, 28 June 2018

1100–1140 Registration & refreshments
1145–1200 Introduction

1200–1230
Lucie Ryzova (University of Birmingham, UK)
Free floating words: the social landscapes of print in colonial Egypt

1230–1250
Niki Sioki (University of Nicosia, Cyprus)
Neighbours on paper: multilingual documents and multi-script printing in late 19th and early 20th century Cyprus

1300–1400 Lunch

1400–1420
Naïma Ben Ayed (Dalton Maag Ltd, UK)
Maghreban specificities, past and present: a closer look at typography and calligraphic heritage in the Maghreb

1430–1450
Gerry Leonidas (University of Reading, UK)
Themes in the globalisation of typeface design

1500–1515 Break

1515–1525
Arina Stonescu (Lund University, Sweden)
Communist typography in Romania 1948–1989: the education of typographers during the communist time and its legacy

1530–1540
Eliza Deac (Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania)
Shaping the visual identity of Modernist poetry: the role of typographical layout in French & Romanian Symbolist poems

1545–1555
Guglielmo Rossi (Royal College of Art, UK)
The collective production of radical politics in print, London in the 1970s

1615–1630 Break

1630–1650
Tobias Klein (Humboldt University, Germany)
Tones and characters: towards a comparative study of musical letter notation

1700–1720
Jesús Barrientos (University of Puebla, Mexico)
The Renaissance letters of Mesoamerican scribes in sixteenth century New Spain

1730–1800
Graham Shaw (University of London, UK)
The iconography of the Indian freedom movement: the Japanese dimension

1800–1815 Closing remarks

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DAY 2 • Friday, 29 June 2018

1030–1120 Registration & refreshments

1130–1200
Robin Jeffrey (National University of Singapore)
Printing in India: technology, commerce and turning points – puzzles and possibilities

1200–1220
Wafi Momin (Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK)
From manuscripts to printed texts: the evolution of Khojki script and literary production

1230–1250
Fiona Ross (University of Reading, UK)
The analysis of printed characters: reflections on typographic history and textual representation

1300–1400 Lunch

1400–1420
Vivien Chan (Nottingham Trent University, UK)
Colour and lights: the politics of traditional Chinese script in Hong Kong’s urban landscape

1430–1450
Ritika Prasad (University of North Carolina, USA)
Wheeler booksellers: railways and reading in colonial India

1500–1515 Break

1515–1525
Marta Dos Santos (LCC/School of Oriental & African Studies, UK)
Printing for salvation: the production of the morality book Yuli Chao Chuan Jingshi as a hell-avoiding strategy in late imperial China

1530–1540
Pouran Lashini (University of Dallas, USA)
Early Iranian printing through various writing systems and artefacts

1545–1555
Svenja Michel (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Changes in book art: images in Books of Hours between manuscript making and printing

1615–1630 Break

1630–1650
Zhenzhen Lu (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Thinking about orthography in early modern China

1700–1720
Juliette Cezzar (Parsons School of Design, USA)
Movable type, multiple scripts, changing alphabets: design, technology, and literacy in the late Ottoman Empire

1730–1800
Ulrike Stark (University of Chicago, USA)
Making tracts attractive: missionary print in nineteenth-century rural India

1800–1815
Closing remarks

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