THE CONCERTINA-FOLD BOOK ACROSS PRE-MODERN CULTURES

Wednesday 5 July 2023, 16.30 - 18.00
Session 1347
Parkinson Building - Room B.11

Organiser: Megan McNamee, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh
Moderator: Sarah Griffin, Lambeth Palace Library

A Folded Genealogy of Edward IV
Sonja Drimmer, Department of the History of Art & Architecture, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Going Up, Coming Down: Landscape, Verticality, and Time in the Mixtec Screen-Fold Manuscripts of Pre-Hispanic Mexico 
Jamie Forde, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh

Tibetan Buddhist Concertina-Fold Books in Qing-Era Beijing
Ben Nourse, Department of Religious Studies, University of Denver

Sponsored jointly by the International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) and the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography, Rare Book School.  

Virtual attendance of this event is free and open to the public; advance registration required: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-concertina-fold-book-across-premodern-cultures-tickets-608348575967