Symposium: Hidden in Plain Sight: East Asian Rare Books in American Libraries & Museums

Description

This interdisciplinary symposium marks the 30th anniversary of teaching East Asian languages on the Johns Hopkins University's Homewood campus.

The goal of the symposium is to bring together Johns Hopkins faculty, staff, students, and invited experts to explore East Asian print culture in all its contexts: material, historical, cultural, religious, scientific, and aesthetic. It will focus on hands-on learning from early modern Chinese, Japanese, and Korean rare books and manuscripts from Sheridan Libraries Special Collections, as well as visiting allied collections in Washington, D.C., and address larger issues that surround knowledge and access to early modern East Asian books in American research libraries.

The symposium is co-organized by history professor (Tobie Meyer-Fong)[https://history.jhu.edu/directory/tobie-meyer-fong/] and (Earle Havens)[https://www.library.jhu.edu/staff/earle-havens/], director of the Sheridan Libraries' Virginia Fox Stern Center for the History of the Book, and co-sponsored by the Program in East Asian Studies.