Friday, March 6, 2026
Doheny Memorial Library (DML240), University of Southern California
9:30–9:45
Opening Remarks
9:45–11:30
Panel 1: Concepts and Narratives
Moderator: Graeme R. Reynolds (USC)
Discussant: Virginia Moon (Korean American Muse [KAM])
Presenters:
Martin Heijdra (Princeton)
The Concepts of Movable Type and Typography: Are They Historically Useful?
Seung-cheol Lee (From Jikji to Gutenberg)
“Jungdogaja” and Jikji: The Metal Movable Type Printing Technology of Goryeo
Sarah Bramao-Ramos (Bates College)
Movable Type, Immovable Syllabary: Manchu and Language Learning in Qing China
Xiaoyu Xia (Princeton)
Typographic Reframing? Toward a Transnational History of East Asian Page Borders
11:30–12:30
Lunch
12:30–14:15
Panel 2: Texts and Technology
Moderator: Mengxiao Wang (USC)
Discussant: Cynthia Brokaw (Brown University)
Presenters:
Nikita Kuzmin (Elling Eide)
Beyond the Tangut Realm: Circulation and Reuse of Tangut Buddhist Prints in Turfan
Xiaojun Huang (Bowling Green)
How Song-Dynasty Paper Money and Early Movable Type Shaped Currency Design in Eastern and Western Cultures
Young-jung Ok (Academy of Korean Studies)
Innovation of Movable Metal Type Printing in Early Chosŏn—Experiments with Kyemi, Kyŏngja and Kabin Fonts
Shuo Liang (UChicago)
Clay Block Printing and Popular Historiography: An Eighteenth-Century Typographical Experiment
14:15–14:45
Break
14:45–16:15
Panel 3: Transmission and History
Moderator: Sunyoung Park (USC)
Discussant: Yuming He (UC Davis)
Presenters:
Graeme R. Reynolds (USC)
“Just Like the Cast Type of Our Country”?: The Selective Adaptation of the Juzhenban in Chosŏn Korea
Devin Fitzgerald (UCLA)
Movable Type and Tokugawa Internationalism: The Case of Yoshida Kōton
Lars Kim (Korean Type)
Moveable Mysteries: Mapping Korean Type Collections Across North America
17:00
Dinner (invited guests only)