Typographic Orient Printing «Oriental» languages, between Europe(s) and the East(s) | 16th-19th centuries

International conference organized by Fabien Simon, Université Paris Cité, with the support of ANR IndesLing (coord. F. simon), EFEO (Michela Bussotti) and the Paris Institute for Advanced Study,

4-day conference (December 12-15), including one day at the Paris Institute for Advanced Study (December 13).
Full PDF program available at the bottom of this page.
Registration for December 13: see form at bottom of page
Information and registration for the other days: fabien.simon@u-paris.fr

General presentation

This international conference aims to bring together researchers — historians, typographers and graphic designers, linguists, … — whose works focus on the way “Oriental” languages were printed, in various places, between 16th and 19th century, and on the technical, social, political or cultural issues of such practices.

Program / December 13 / Paris Institute for Advanced Study

09:00
Welcome

Paris, typographic capital (1)
Chair : Stéphane Van Damme (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Ulm, Paris)

09:30
Michela Bussotti (Ecole Française d’Extrême Orient, Paris, CCJ (UMR 8173))
Dictionnaires et caractères chinois : quelques notes à propos d’Étienne Fourmont 1683-1745

10:10
Fabien Simon (Université Paris Cité, ICT-Les Europes dans le monde)
Scholars in the workshop. The Inspectors of the Oriental Typography of Paris’s Imprimerie nationale, end of the 18th-mid-19th Century

10:50 Break

Paris, typographic capital (2)
Chair : Liliane Hilaire-Pérez (Université Paris Cité, ICT-Les Europes dans le monde)

11:10
Juliette Milleron (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, IDHE.S (UMR 8533))
Les ouvriers de l’imprimerie nationale et la typographie orientale : transformation des pratiques, identité et culture de métier au tournant du XIXe siècle

11:50
Elena Papassissa (Senior Type Designer, Lecturer in Graphic Design at Oxford Brookes University, UK)
Armenian types in Paris: a tale of two key moments

12:30
General Discussion

13:00 - Lunch break

Politics of typography
Chair : Pierre-Emmanuel Roux (Université Paris Cité, CCJ (UMR 8173))

14:20
Nile Green (UCLA)
Asia’s Communications Revolution: The Technologies of Inter-Asian Transmission

15:00
Michael Kim (Yonsei University, Seoul)
The Printing Bureau and the Development of Korean Typography in Colonial Korea

15:40
Thomas S. Mullaney (Stanford University)
From ‘Oriental Type’ to ‘Non-Latin’: Type Design, Media, and Empire in Asia

16:20 Break

Port cities and printing workshops
Chair : Olivier Bouquet (Université Paris Cité, CESSMA, IUF)

16:40
Sebouh Aslanian (UCLA)
Early Modernity and Mobility: Port Cities and Printers Across the Armenian Diaspora, 1512-1800

17:20
Han Qi (Zhejiang University, Hangzhou)
Printing Chinese: The Circulation of Western typographical technology in mid-nineteenth century China port cities

18:00  General discussion