[Bilimsel Haber] CfP: The History of Printing and Publishing in the Languages and Countries of the Middle East (Leipzig, 25-27 September 2008)

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THIRD SYMPOSIUM ON THE HISTORY OF PRINTING AND PUBLISHING IN THE
LANGUAGES AND COUNTRIES OF THE MIDDLE EAST: LEIPZIG, 25-27 SEPTEMBER
2008
CALL FOR PAPERS

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.

Some of the specific themes which may be discussed and developed in the
conference papers are the following (but other suggestions are most
welcome):

- Middle Eastern printing before Gutenberg
- The origins and developments of European typography in Middle Eastern
scripts
- The arrival and development of typography in the Middle East
- The aesthetic and practical dimensions of Middle Eastern typography
(design, cognitive effects, etc.)
- Lithography in the Middle East
- The printing, publishing and readership of newspapers and magazines
[but not their journalistic, intellectual or literary content]
- Aspects of descriptive and analytical bibliography of early and rare
Middle Eastern printed material
- The history of Middle Eastern publishing, and its social, economic,
and literary consequences
- The history of publishing in Middle Eastern languages outside the
Middle East
- The art and techniques of illustrations in printed books and
periodicals

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 December 2007, using the UEAI Congress
Registration Form available at http://www.hpplcme.ovh.org . As well as
sending it to the Congress organisers, please copy it to the three
Symposium conveners below.

Information about the Congress, registration fees, accommodation,
travel, etc. can be found in the UEAI Congress circular at
http://www.hpplcme.ovh.org
Ulrich Marzolph (Göttingen) umarzol at gwdg.de
Geoffrey Roper (London) gjr2 at cam.ac.uk
Sara Yontan (Paris) sara.yontan at bnf.fr