2025 Winter/Spring Schedule
Please note all sessions will run from noon to 1:30pm
January 9
The Persian Incunables: The Convergence of Lithographic, Typographic, and Woodblock Printing
Ali Boozari, Associate Professor, Tehran University of Art
Registration for January 9 seminar
February 6
From Calligraphy to Litho: From the Art of Book Making to Book Publishing
Chander Shekhar, Senior Professor, formerly Head, Dept. of Persian &Center for Central Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Delhi
March 6
An Examination of the Historical Evolution of Persian Lithographic Book Publishing during the First Pahlavi Era in the Cities of Tehran and Shiraz
Torfeh Abtahi, Independent Scholar
April 10
The Character of Print: Early Perso-Arabic Printing Technologies in India
Zahra Shah, Lecturer in Early Modern History, University of Bristol
May 8
Attitudes towards Lithography in 19th-Century India: The East India Company and Christian Missionaries
Graham Shaw, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London
June 5
A Comparative Study of the Printing of Persian
Mystical Prose Texts in Lithographic Printing Factories ofIranandtheSubcontinent
Maryam Hosseini, Professor at Alzahra University, Tehran