<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt">Dear colleagues,</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></span><br></div><div style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt"><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:medium;margin:0px"><div style="font-size:11pt;margin:0px"><p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin:0px"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px"> </span></span></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px">We invite you to join us for the virtual seminar on <b>Communication, Technology, and Environment in the Indian Ocean World</b> sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellow in Critical Bibliography (SoFCB) that will feature a presentation by Dr. Wei Jin Darryl Lim (University of London).</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin:0px"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px"> </span></span></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin:0px"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px"> </span></span></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px">Date and time: <b>Thursday, November 2, 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM</b></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin:0px"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px"><b> </b></span></span></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin:0px"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px"> </span></span></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px">Title: <b>Origins, origination, and production: Lithographic printing, its materials, and production processes in a nineteenth-century Malay world, 1826–1900</b></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin:0px"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px"><b> </b></span></span></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin:0px"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px"> </span></span></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px">Abstract: The eastward diffusion of lithographic technology in the nineteenth century—specifically on a hand press—was not a clean, linear historical process. In Batavia, for instance, the earliest known lithographic hand press was initially imported by Dutch missionaries in 1826. However, technological acclimatization of lithography to indigenous Muslim sensibilities in the Malay world was a drawn-out parallel process; influenced less by literature that Protestant missionaries printed (which emulated the visual idiom of Malay manuscripts) and more by the waves of print-technological change happening in Ottoman domains, the Arabian Peninsula, and the commercial bazaars of the Indian subcontinent. This presentation aims to highlight localized innovations developed in the unique cultural environs of the Malay world, and will specifically examine methods, technical processes, and materials used in Malay lithography. Importantly, it aims to shed light on the actions of anonymous individuals that labored in the production of these printed objects; and the moments where Islamicate, Muslim-Malay, and Western traditions of bookmaking and printing dovetailed and co-existed.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin:0px"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px"> </span></span></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"> </span><br></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px">To attend the seminar, please use this </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="https: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