September 5, 12:00-1:30 p.m.
"Persian Printing in Comparative Context: The Place of Iran in Three Technological Diffusion Zones"
Nile Green, Ibn Khaldun Endowed Chair in World History, UCLA
October 3, 12:00-1:30 p.m.
The Development of the Military and the Public in the Shadow of Lithography
Majid Jalise, Independent Scholar, Tehran
November 7, 12:00-1:30 p.m.
The Character of Print: Early Perso-Arabic Printing Technologies in India
Zahra Shah, University of Bristol
December 5, 12:00-1:30 p.m.
Picturing Readers and Writers: an iconography of book culture in Indian lithographic illustration, 1840s to 1900
Ulrike Stark, University of Chicago
Organized by Mahdi Ganjavi, Shabnam Golkhandan, Mohamad Tavakoli