[Linganth] Invitation to Communication, Technology, and Environment in the Indian Ocean World Semina

[Sonia Das]

Dear colleagues,



We invite you to join us for the virtual seminar on *Communication,
Technology, and Environment in the Indian Ocean World* 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).



Date and time: *Thursday, November 2, 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM*



Title: *Origins, origination, and production: Lithographic printing, its
materials, and production processes in a nineteenth-century Malay world,
1826–1900*



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.



To attend the seminar, please use this link
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__nyu.zoom.us_webinar_register_WN-5FkP131KzXSqmadlVynuBmAg-23_registration&d=DwMF-g&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=eaQLuY5Rv5l1NzgFln7QTdrNpNzlUa763-mVxj2HI34&m=61VH7o3KJXM3WDBKlnS6reZdDr1h0XhcKoLOGx9RFCxn2NxfIZgopPn0qMQI8gnr&s=tSDLytNCeQReJOpSF04vHAABuvUTTAFIm3Kwl3puj14&e=>
to
register. This event is jointly organized by SoFCB junior fellows, Rianne
Subijanto (Communication Studies, Baruch College, CUNY) and Sonia Das
(Anthropology, NYU). Send us any questions you have at the email addresses
below.

Best wishes,
Rianne Subijanto (Rianne.subijanto at baruch.cuny.edu)
Sonia Das (sonia.das at nyu.edu)


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Sonia N. Das, Ph.D. (she/her/hers)
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
New York University
sd99 at nyu.edu <sonia.das at nyu.edu>
212-992-7476
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