Manuscript Cultures Across Africa & Asia

To open the upcoming exhibition, “From Mauritania to Japan: Multi- materiality and Physicality of Non-Western Manuscripts in the Robertson Davies Library,” the Library has organized an academic forum focusing on research related to non-Western manuscripts occurring across the University of Toronto’s three campuses. The symposium will highlight and celebrate the work being conducted on manuscript cultures outside of Europe and non-Indigenous North America by professors, postdoctoral fellows, and PhD students at the University. With presentations ranging temporally from the ancient world to the early modern world, and thematically from manuscript production methods to ritualistic use, the symposium aims to setup an interdisciplinary stage for faculty and the student community regarding the diverse materiality and physicality, along with its multi-modal and multi-purposeful nature, of the manuscript book throughout time and space.