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<P>EXTENSION OF DEADLINE: NOW 31 JANUARY 2008</P>
<P>THIRD SYMPOSIUM ON THE HISTORY OF PRINTING IN THE LANGUAGES AND COUNTRIES OF
THE MIDDLE EAST<BR>LEIPZIG, 25-27 SEPTEMBER 2008<BR>CALL FOR PAPERS</P>
<P>Following two successful international symposia on The History of Printing
and Publishing in the Languages and Countries of the Middle East, held at the
Gutenberg Museum in Mainz (2002) and at the Bibliothèque nationale de France in
Paris (2005), we are now convening the third meeting on the same themes. This
will take place in Leipzig, 25-27 September 2008, and it will form part of the
24th Congress of the Union européenne des arabisants et islamisants (UEAI). This
Symposium, however, will not be confined to printing in Arabic and Muslim
languages, but will, as before, cover all Middle Eastern languages and scripts:
Arabic, Armenian, Berber, Coptic, Georgian, Hebrew, Kurdish, Persian, Syriac,
Turkish, etc.</P>
<P>Some of the specific themes which may be discussed and developed in the
conference papers are the following (but other suggestions are most
welcome):</P>
<P># Middle Eastern printing before Gutenberg<BR># The origins and developments
of European typography in Middle Eastern scripts <BR># The arrival and
development of typography in the Middle East <BR># The aesthetic and practical
dimensions of Middle Eastern typography (design, cognitive effects, etc.) <BR>#
Lithography in the Middle East <BR># The printing, publishing and readership of
newspapers and magazines [but not their journalistic, intellectual or literary
content] <BR># Aspects of descriptive and analytical bibliography of early and
rare Middle Eastern printed material <BR># The history of Middle Eastern
publishing, and its social, economic, and literary consequences <BR># The
history of publishing in Middle Eastern languages outside the Middle East <BR>#
The art and techniques of illustrations in printed books and periodicals</P>
<P>The working languages of the Symposium are English, French and German. Papers
should not exceed 20 minutes. Please send proposals, as soon as possible, and
not later than 31 January 2008, using the UEAI Congress Registration Form
available at </FONT><A href="http://www.hpplcme.ovh.org/"><U><FONT color=#0000ff
size=4>http://www.hpplcme.ovh.org</U></FONT></A><FONT size=4> . As well as
sending it to the Congress organisers, please copy it to the three Symposium
conveners below.</P>
<P>Information about the Congress, registration fees, accommodation, travel,
etc. can be found in the UEAI Congress circular at </FONT><A
href="http://www.hpplcme.ovh.org/"><U><FONT color=#0000ff
size=4>http://www.hpplcme.ovh.org</U></FONT></A></P><FONT size=4>
<P>Ulrich Marzolph (Göttingen) <A
href="mailto:umarzol@gwdg.de">umarzol@gwdg.de</A><BR>Geoffrey Roper (London) <A
href="mailto:gjr2@cam.ac.uk">gjr2@cam.ac.uk</A><BR>Sara Yontan (Paris)
sara.yontan@bnf.fr</P></FONT></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>