Pressing the Past: Materials, Markets, and Meaning (opens in new tab)

The African and Middle Eastern division is hosting a two-day workshop for May 4 and 5, which convenes specialists in book history, bibliography, conservation, and cultural history to examine the emergence and development of printing in African, Hebraic, and Middle Eastern languages during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Drawing on textual and material evidence, participants will investigate the full range of the printed book's life cycle - from the physical properties of ink, paper, ...