Dear members of the list,

(sorry for cross-posting)

A conference of possible interest going on at the University of Pennsylvania in a couple of weeks:

4th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age

Writing the East: History and New Technologies in the Study of Asian Manuscript Traditions

October 21-22, 2011


See the link here:
http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/lectures/ljs_symposium4.html


There is early registration and registration at the door.


Here is the list of participants and their areas of specialization:
    Adam Gacek, McGill University, Institute of Islamic Studies
    David Germano, University of Virginia, The Tibetan and Himalayan Library
    Justin McDaniel, University of Pennsylvania, Thai Digital Monastery
    Yael Rice, The Philadelphia Museum of Art
    Peter Scharf, The Sanskrit Library
    Min Bahadur Shakya, Nagarjuna Institute of Exact Methods
    Kazuko Tanabe, The Eastern Institute
    Hiram Woodward, The Walters Art Museum
    Susan Whitfield, The British Library, The International Dunhuang Project


Best,
BF


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Benjamin Fleming, Visiting Scholar,
Dept. of Religious Studies,
University of Pennsylvania 249 S. 36th Street,
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Philadelphia, PA 19104 U.S.A.
Telephone - 215-900-5744
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~bfleming