3rd Symposium on the History of Printing and Publishing in the Languages and Countries of the Middle East- prog

Programme

Please note that this is a draft, not the final programme.
Major changes will be notified to participants.
For minor changes, please continue to visit this website.

All sessions of the Symposium will take place in the lecture hall of Leipzig University Library, Beethovenstrasse 6 and are held in cooperation with the Oriental Institute (Prof. Dr. V. Klemm).

The Library is also hosting a special exhibition of Middle Eastern manuscripts and printed books throughout the Symposium See Here

Wednesday 24 September 2008

`15:00 - 17:00`	Visit to the Deutsches Buch- und Schriftmuseum (German Book and Writing Museum)
	Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Deutscher Platz 1
`16:00 - 18:45`	Registration to the Symposium
	Leipzig University Library, Beethovenstrasse, 6
`19:00 - 20:30`	Opening ceremony, West Wing, University Library
	Keynote address: From manuscripts to printed texts in Arab and Muslim societies Geoffrey Roper

Thursday 25 September 2008

`08:45 - 09:30`	Registration to the Symposium, Leipzig University Library
`09:30 - 11:00`	SESSION 1 A Historiographical Puzzle: Medieval Arabic Block Printing Karl R. Schaefer The Contribution of Hebrew Printing Houses in the Middle East to the Development of Vernacular Literature Rachel Simon Armenian types in European printing : 15th to 17th centuries Meliné Pehlivanian
`11:30 - 14:00`	Reception and lunch for all participants, New City Hall & Panorama Tower
`14:30 - 15:30`	SESSION 2 Early oriental printing in Leipzig: 16th to 18th centuries Boris Liebrenz Armeno-Turkish printing as a social expression, 1727-1840 Aylin Beşiryan
`15:30 - 16:00`	Break
`16:00 - 17:30`	SESSION 3 In Search of Lost Time in Waiting for Godot: How "Late" was the Introduction of Ottoman Printing? Orlin Sabev The intellectual landscape of the founder of the first Ottoman-Turkish press: Ibrahim Müteferrika (1670-1747) Vefa Erginbaş Printed books of the Volga Tatars Nuria Garaeva

Friday 26 September 2008

`09:00 - 10:30`	SESSION 4 Printing and the abuse of texts in al-Jabarti's History of Egypt Sarah Mirza Publications of the Bulaq Press : a perspective and analytical study Khaled Mohamed Azab The Bulaq Press Museum at Bibliotheca Alexandrina Ahmed Mansour
`10:30 - 11:00`	Break
`11:00 - 12:00`	SESSION 5 Judeo-Arabic Printing in North Africa, 1850-1950. Yosef Tobi Arabic and bilingual newspapers and magazines in Latin America and the Caribbean Philipp Bruckmayr
`12:00 - 16:00`	Lunch and visit to Druckkunst-Museum (Museum of the Printing Art), Nonnenstrass 38
`16:00 - 17:30`	SESSION 6 The Ottoman provincial press in Baghdad and the Zewra newspaper (1830-1872) Ebubekir Ceylan Center and periphery in Middle Eastern Arab publishing, 1850-1914 Ami Ayalon Arabic educational publications of the Nahda: modernity through printing Dagmar Glass

Saturday 27 September 2008

`09:00 - 10:30`	SESSION 7 The 1285/1868 Teheran edition of Damiri's "Hayat al-hayawan" and its position in Persian illustrated lithographed books Ulrich Marzolph The illustrations of Tabbāra and Manfalūtī's edition of Kalīla wa Dimna and of the Maktabat Subayh edition of Alf Layla wa Layla Julia Bray La révolution typographique ottomane : l'imprimerie Ebüzziya (1881-1900) Özgür Türesay
`10:30 - 11:00`	Break
`11:00 - 12:30`	SESSION 8 Different scripts, same language : the Ottoman Empire in print in the 19th century Günil Ayaydın Cebe Sufis as publishers : the Tariqat sponsored serial publications in the late Ottoman Empire Slobodan Ilic Die Gründung der Druckerei des alt-syrisch orthodoxen Patriarchats Ahmet Taşğın - Robert Langer
`12:30 - 13:30`	Lunch
`13:30 - 15:00`	SESSION 9 Provincial printing houses in the 19th and early 20th centuries: the Isparta provincial printing house as an example Muammer Göçmen - Filiz Duman - Fatma Banu Meral A champion of printing quality in the Ottoman Turkish press of the Second Constitutional era: the journal Şehbal Bora Ataman - Cem Pekman Technical and managerial qualifications, target group and reader profile of the first Turkish nationalist journals published in Thessaloniki (1910-1912) Arda Odabaşı
`15:00 - 16:00`	Guided tour of the exhibition Ein Garten im Ärmel
`16:00 - 16:30`	Break
`16:30 - 18:00`	SESSION 10 The Beginnings of Printing in Afghanistan, a Brief History Peter Magierski A short history of Kurdish publishing and prospects for the future Blair Kuntz Building cultural bridges : Arabic typography's role in contemporary visual culture of the Middle East Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès
`18:00 - 18:30`	Concluding discussion
`20:00 - ...`	Farewell dinner (UEAI Congress), Panorama Tower [NB: for pre-booked diners only]

Any queries concerning the Symposium programme should be addressed to the conveners:

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

The programme of the UEAI Congress is available Here
Any queries concerning it should be addressed to the Congress Secretariat at:
ueai24@uni-leipzig.de