CALL FOR PAPERS
Global Technology in Local Contexts: Lithography in Asia
A two-day international workshop at the University of Chicago Center in Delhi
16–17 March 2020
Workshop conveners
Prof. Ulrike Stark, Dept. of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
Prof. Thibaut d’Hubert, Dept. of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
Prof. Abhijit Gupta, Dept. of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
The year 2022 will mark the bicentenary of the arrival of lithography in India, a watershed moment in the history of printing in South Asia. In anticipation of this anniversary, the University of Chicago Center in Delhi will host a two-day workshop on 16–17 March 2020. We invite scholars working on various aspects of lithography in Asia to submit proposals for papers. We especially welcome proposals from scholars based in South Asia and from early career researchers.
The upcoming anniversary provides a timely moment to review the history of lithography in its technological, sociocultural, economic, and aesthetic dimensions, and from both local and transregional perspectives. Rather than focusing on India alone, the workshop aims to look at the rise of lithography across Asia, from Teheran to Shanghai, and to address the impact of a global technology that bridged traditional and modern practices of textual production from a variety of disciplinary lenses, languages, and local contexts. The workshop will bring together junior and senior scholars from the US, Europe, India and other Asian countries to discuss approaches to the study of lithography in light of recent interest in material cultures, entangled histories, and the circulation of knowledge and technologies. We will explore new lines of inquiry into the relationship between manuscript and print production and the competition between lithography and typography. Possible topics of discussion may include: the social history of lithography; lithography’s trajectory from the sphere of artistic book production to commercial mass printing, lithography as a religious technology, lithography as an art form, the democratizing effect of lithography, lithography and community formation, lithography and the rise of vernacular journalism, global flows of technology and expertise, missionary uses of lithography, lithography in graphic design and advertising.
The workshop will be free and open to invited guest participants. We are unable to cover travel costs for international presenting participants from outside South Asia, but will cover two nights of accommodation in Delhi as well as refreshments and meals for the duration of the workshop. For speakers based in South Asia, we will cover two nights of accommodation and travel expenses (domestic economy round-trip travel).
Proposals
We invite proposals for papers of 30-minute duration. Proposals should be submitted no later than 15 August 2019 and must include:
- An abstract of no more than 350 words outlining your research presentation
- A current CV
- A completed contact information form.
Please email these materials to Shruti Brar at shrutibrar@uchicago.edu
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