The Production and Circulation of Printed Books in the Occident and Orient from the Accession of the Tang Dynasty (c.618) to the First Industrial Revolution

14 - 15 February 2013
The British Academy
10-11 Carlton House Terrace
London SW1Y 5AH

This conference aims to open the conversation between economic historians and historians of the book and stimulate publications and research in a truly global history of knowledge formation from the Tang dynasty to the Industrial Revolution. It will provide a timely opportunity and forum for reviewing the debate on economic divergence between occident and orient after more than twelve years of debate and feed suggestions into the now rapidly growing field of global history.

As an interdisciplinary conference linked to more than three decades of widespread research on the history of the book it should interest scholars in the fields of history, economics, law, sociology, religious and area studies, and education as well as scholars in libraries and museums concerned with the storage and preservation of knowledge in book form.

Speakers:
Professor Tim Barratt (SOAS), Professor Joerg Baten (Tübingen), Professor Laurence Brockliss (Oxford), Professor Peter Burke, (Cambridge), Professor Michela Bussotti (Ecole francaise d'Extreme-Orient), Dr Hilde De Weerdt (King’s College London), Professor Jean-Pierre Drège (EPHE), Professor Simon Eliot (SAS, University of London), Dr Aileen Fyfe (University of St Andrews), Professors Qi Han (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Professor Ian Inkster (Nottingham Trent), Professor Peter Kornicki (Cambridge), Professor Maarten Prak (Utrecht), Professor James Raven (Essex), Professor Joan-Pau Rubiés (LSE), Professor Dagmar Schaefer (Manchester), Professor Hans Ulrich Vogel (Tübingen), Professor Harriet Zurndorfer (Leiden), Professor Manel Ollé (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

Public Lecture and Panel Discussion:
Professor Ken Pomeranz (Chicago) ‘Knowledge Formation and Economic Divergence between China and the West’.

Respondents:
Professor Bill Bell (Edinburgh), Professor Mark Elvin (Oxford), and Professor Peer Vries (Vienna)

Conference Convenors:
Professor O'Brien (LSE) P.O' This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Dr Ting Xu (LSE) This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

This event is FREE but registration is required.

The conference programme can be downloaded from here:
http://www.britac.ac.uk/events/2013/the_production_and_circulation_of_printed_books.cfm