Freitag, 21. September 2018, 09:30 - 18:00 iCal

Manuscript, Print and Publication Cultures

in South Asia. From the 19th Century to the Present

Seminarraum 1 des Instituts für Südasien-, Tibet- und Buddhismuskunde
Spitalgasse 2, Hof 2.7, 1090 Wien

Tagung, Konferenz, Kongress, Symposium


Weitere Termine

Donnerstag, 20. September 2018, 14:00 - 19:00

South Asia possesses a large number of literary traditions that represent a wide range of languages and genres. The texts of these traditions were produced and transmitted over the centuries. In the late 18th century, mechanical printing of texts spread in South Asia. The new technology was used to reproduce texts in many different languages, enhancing their circulation and enabling new genres and types of publications in modern South Asian languages to emerge.

The symposium will focus on the period in South Asia from the 19th century to the present. lt will explore two interrelated matters, namely the shift from a manuscript culture to a print culture, including more recent developments of digital culture, and, secondly, how systematic collections of texts formed in this period, such as collections of manuscripts or texts in digital format, and in places as diverse as Bengal, Nepal, Andhra Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu.

We will discuss aspects of continuity and transformation within the many intellectual and technical practices relevant to text and book production. This will include examining how changes in book production and the accessibility of texts have affected traditional scholarship as weil as the oral performance and transmission of texts. Other related questions involve the reception, preservation and transmission of both material culture and knowledge systems in connection with the standardization of modern South Asian languages such as Hindi, Nepali, Telugu and Tamil.

The symposium will bring together international scholars whose research is based on diverse methodologies and focuses on different regions and languages of South Asia. Their contributions will shed light on different aspects of the cultural history of South Asia and display not only the complexity of the latter, but also the challenges that it poses to its interpreters.

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Veranstalter

Institut für Südasien-, Tibet- und Buddhismuskunde & Institut für Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens


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Kontakt

Judith Starecek
Institut für Südasien-, Tibet- und Buddhismuskunde
4277 43502
judith.starecek@univie.ac.at