A half-day symposium offering an in-depth look into five of the more unique items from around the world that can be found in the Princeton University Library collections and that are on display in the “Forms and Functions: Splendors of Global Book Making” exhibition opening on September 10, 2025 in the Ellen and Leonard Milberg Gallery.

Exhibition tours are available at 12:15pm and 4:45pm. Please sign up for these tours separately.

Presentations by:

- Devin Fitzgerald, UCLA Library Special Collections: “Printing Antiquities in Early Modern China: The Xi'an Nestorian Stele and Its Global Circulation”
- Xiaoliang Li, Southwest University (Chongqing, China): “Dongba Script – A Living Pictographic Writing System”
- Trent Walker, University of Michigan: “Southeast Asian Buddhist Manuscripts: History, Materiality, and Digitization”
- Roberta Zollo, University of Hamburg: “Straightening the magic: The accordion-style manuscripts produced by the Batak people of North Sumatra”
- Louward Allen Zubiri, Yale University: “The Philippine Paleographs”

Sponsored by: Princeton University Library Special Collections, Tang Center for East Asian Art, Center for Collaborative History, East Asian Studies Program, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Glorisun Global Buddhist Network, and Center for Culture, Society, and Religion