MIDDLE EAST PRINTING & PUBLISHING HISTORY (fwd)

["N. Heer" <heer at u dot washington dot edu>]

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					Nicholas

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Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 17:55:43 +0000
From: Geoffrey Roper <gjr at ULA dot CAM dot AC dot UK>
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Subject: MIDDLE EAST PRINTING & PUBLISHING HISTORY

A reminder and final call for papers:-

HISTORY OF PRINTING AND PUBLISHING IN THE LANGUAGES AND COUNTRIES OF THE
MIDDLE EAST

SYMPOSIUM: 9-12 September 2002

EXHIBITION: September-October 2002

GUTENBERG MUSEUM, MAINZ, Germany

The Symposium forms part of the First World Congress of Middle Eastern
Studies (WoCMES): details of registration and other Congress particulars
can be found on the website at http://www.wocmes.de ; alternatively they
may be requested from the Secretariat at wocmes at geo dot uni-mainz dot de

  So far some 36 papers have been proposed and accepted, on subjects
ranging from mediaeval Arabic block-prints to the development of digital
type-styles in the 21st century. Printing in Arabic, Armenian, Greek,
Hebrew, Kurdish, Persian, Syriac, Tatar and Turkish will feature, and
locations include Britain, Egypt, France, Germany, Iraq, Italy,
Kurdistan, Lebanon, Malta, Morocco, Palestine, Sudan, Syria, Tatarstan,
Turkey, Turkistan, USA and Zanzibar.

  Further offers of papers are still welcome: the deadline has been
extended to 15 February 2002.

  The Exhibition will be a major showing of rare, significant and
historically important printed materials gathered from major
collections, with sections for Armenian, Arabic, Coptic, Hebrew,
Persian, Turkish, and a special display of early newspapers. There will
also be a room allocated to demonstrations of the latest programmes and
applications of digitised "typography" in Middle Eastern languages.

   Further particulars are available from the convenors:-

Dr Dagmar Glass
Institut für Ausssereuropäische Sprachen und Kulturen
Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Bismarckstr. 1
D-91054 Erlangen
Deutschland

Tel.: +49 9131 8522446
Fax:  +49 9131 8526022
E-mail: drglass at phil dot uni-erlangen dot de   or   glass at rz dot uni-leipzig dot de

Dr Geoffrey Roper
Islamic Bibliography Unit
Cambridge University Library
West Road
Cambridge
CB3 9DR
U.K.
Tel: +44 1223 333057
Fax: +44 1223 333160
E-mail: gjr2 at cam dot ac dot uk

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