[KS] Fwd: CFP: Traditions of East Asian Typography Conference

[Graeme Reynolds]

Would it be possible to circulate the following call for papers?


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From: Graeme Reynolds <graemere at usc.edu>
Date: Fri, Sep 26, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Subject: CFP: Traditions of East Asian Typography Conference
To: Graeme Reynolds <beetrootfox at gmail.com>



The Conference on Traditions of East Asian Typography seeks to investigate
the autochthonous traditions of movable type in East Asia before the
arrival of Western letterpress and lithography in the late nineteenth
century. Woodblock was the dominant and preferred method of printing in
East Asia up until the nineteenth century. By contrast, East Asia’s
home-grown typographic traditions often seem like an afterthought, an
eccentricity, or an abandoned experiment that failed to match the Gutenberg
revolution. Yet, typography was never entirely discontinued, and diverse
actors utilized movable type at particular times, in specific places, or
for certain objectives, often in direct competition with xylography. The
aim of this conference is to interrogate these traditions as distinct
technological systems, explore their possible mutual interactions, and to
push the English language scholarship on East Asian typography, and East
Asian book history more broadly, in new directions. We welcome proposals
from scholars of any academic rank or geographical location. All proposals
must engage substantially with East Asian contexts and typography prior to
the twentieth century, although comparative chronological or geographic
investigations are welcome.



Deadline for submissions is November 15, 2025. The conference will be held
March 6, 2026, at the University of Southern California.



Please see the CFP on H-Net:
https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20126472/traditions-east-asian-typography
or the conference website: https://dornsife.usc.edu/east-asian-typography/
for further information.



Best,



Graeme R. Reynolds

Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures



Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Taper Hall of Humanities
3501 Trousdale Parkway
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0357


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Graeme Reynolds
beetrootfox at gmail.com
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