books

Dear colleagues, 

The new FutureLearn course Global Codex: Hidden Stories of Books Across Cultures invites participants to explore books as historical artefacts, examining the clues hidden in their bindings, paper, illustrations, fibres, annotations, and other physical features. 

Travelling across Japan, Dunhuang, Europe, the Greek and Islamicate worlds, and Southeast Asia, the course reveals how books were created, circulated, and cherished across cultures and centuries. 

Dear EAJRS friends,

Dr. Freya TERRYN, researcher and curator of the Japanese Donation Books Collection at the Université catholique de Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium), is pleased to announce an international symposium in July 2027 on a topic that may interest many of you : Making knowledge, Books, Prints, and Manuscripts in Japan.