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

CALL FOR PAPERS

This Symposium will cover the history of printing and publishing in all Middle Eastern languages and scripts: Arabic, Armenian, Berber, Coptic, Georgian, Hebrew, Kurdish, Persian, Syriac, Turkish, etc., anywhere in the world, as well printing in other languages in Middle Eastern countries.

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 January 2008, using the Registration Form for the UEAI Congress (of which this Symposium is part), 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.

Ulrich Marzolph (Göttingen) umarzol@gwdg.de
Geoffrey Roper (London) gjr2@cam.ac.uk
Sara Yontan (Paris) sara.yontan@bnf.fr