An Interdisciplinary Workshop on Working with Manuscripts

University of Toronto
Monday and Tuesday, May 7-8, 2007
Munk Centre North House, Room 108N
1 Devonshire Place, Toronto

This workshop brings together a group of medievalists, historians of the book, and specialists of religious manuscripts to discuss a broad range of issues related but not restricted to the production, use, circulation, alteration, and interpretation of religious manuscripts. The workshop will attempt to address these issues by focusing on the role that the material form of the manuscript, its site and means of production, established traditions of reading and writing, specialists and their clients, the rise of alternative technologies and forms of knowledge, and institutions such as church and state respectively play in shaping religious truth, history, meaning, power, and veracity.

This event is sponsored by the University of Toronto Humanities Centre, with additional support from the Centre for the Study of Religion and the Asian Institute.

The event has been organized by Frances Garrett, Juhn Ahn, and Amanda Goodman, Assistant Professors of Buddhist Studies, Centre for the Study of Religion and Department of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto.