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It will consider lithography\u2019s circulation across borders and oceans, its adaptation to diverse linguistic, artistic, and commercial contexts, and its embeddedness in cultural and political life from the nineteenth century onward.<\/p>\n<p>The symposium includes invited papers, demonstrations on a reconstructed Senefelder Pole Press and sessions featuring material from University of Reading and private collections. It will be in hybrid format for the papers, and we will be able to support 20 in-person places for the workshop and collections sessions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For now, please hold the date. We will be posting more information soon about how you can book your place.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Speakers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Borna Izadpanah<\/strong>, University of Reading<br \/>\nScript, stone, and type: visual continuities in Iran\u2019s earliest printed Qur\u02bcans<\/p>\n<p><strong>Erin Pi\u00f1on<\/strong>, Kunsthistorisches Institut<br \/>\n\u2018In the lithographic studio of Hovhannes Muyhendisyan\u2019: Ottoman-Armenian encounters with the lithographic press<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hannah Rose Blakeley<\/strong>, Princeton University<br \/>\nBelgian lithography and book illustration ca. 1900<\/p>\n<p><strong>Helena de Barros<\/strong>, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro<br \/>\nMaterial logics of printed colour in European and Brazilian chromolithography<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wei Jin Darryl Lim<\/strong><br \/>\nLithography at Riau\u2019s \u2018Gateway to Mecca\u2019: print and scribal labour in Penyengat island, 1856\u201379 <\/p>\n<p><strong>Asiel 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