This conference brings together scholars working on a variety of textual cultures across the Asian continent, ranging from Japan to the Middle East, to consider a wide range of material and sociological aspects of the production and use of written texts. Twenty speakers coming from institutions in North America, Europe, and China will present papers that ask: Who wrote? How did they write, using what materials and for what purpose? How does the materiality of writings relate to their function? How were texts assembled and bound to form something we might call a book？What cultural practices were involved in reading, copying, transmitting, and collecting books? How do these practices overlap or differ over time and across cultures?

Conference website: https://www.colorado.edu/alc/ebcc

This conference brings together scholars working on a variety of textual cultures across the Asian continent, ranging from Japan to the Middle East, to consider a wide range of material and sociological aspects of the production and use of written texts. Twenty speakers coming from institutions in North America, Europe, and China will present papers that ask: Who wrote? How did they write, using what materials and for what purpose? How does the materiality of writings relate to their function? How were texts assembled and bound to form something we might call a book？What cultural practices were involved in reading, copying, transmitting, and collecting books? How do these practices overlap or differ over time and across cultures?

Conference website: https://www.colorado.edu/alc/ebcc