Medieval Text Technologies in China and Europe (September 11-13, 2014)

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Featuring:  Ronald Egan (moderator) - Professor, East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies at Stanford University

An international conference on manuscripts, reading, writing, book history, and the classification of knowledge in medieval China and Europe. Special attention to common problems and divergent paths taken with regard to manuscript production, copying and transcription, orality vs. the written circulation of texts, writing systems, and the social space of manuscripts. The conference brings together international specialists on the medieval manuscript tradition in Europe with those working on parallel topics in medieval Chinese history.

Schedule:

September 11, 2014 • 1:30pm–5pm

September 12, 2014 • 9am–5pm

September 13, 2014 • 9am–12pm