The Asian Division also occasionally hosts webinars, which provide in-depth conversations about and examinations of the Library’s Asian collections. The collection of recorded webinars provides assistance to learn more about the Library's Asian-language resources.
Webinars
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Film, VideoWeston Bland on Coptic Orthodox Christians in Egypt Dr. Weston Bland discusses his current research on communal representation and church politics among Coptic Orthodox Christians in Egypt for the period between 1927-1961. Bland is an assistant professor of philosophy and religion at Mississippi State University.- Contributor: Bland, Weston
- Date: 2024-06-26
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Film, VideoMangyan Scripts, Literary Heritage, and Collections "Mangyan" is a term often used to refer to several Indigenous communities on the island of Mindoro in the Philippines. This virtual panel event focuses on Mangyan scripts and literary heritage, which have persisted through the centuries despite the experiences of Spanish, and then American rule. It also highlights Mangyan collections at the Library of Congress, the Mangyan Heritage Center, Newberry Library, and Yale…- Date: 2023-09-20
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Film, VideoPrinting the Urdu Public: Madinah Newspaper and Lithography as a Muslim Technology Watch a discussion on how a small-town newspaper used lithographic technology to cast a significant slice of Urdu journalism conversation as distinctively Muslim. Discussing a chapter of her recently published book, "Print and the Urdu Public: Muslims, Newspapers, and Urban Life in Colonial India", Megan Robb discusses the development of the newspaper Madinah as an extension of networks of correspondence and kinship in North…- Contributor: Giles, Charlotte - Robb, Megan
- Date: 2021-09-03
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Film, VideoSoutheast Asian Scripts: From the Centers to the Margins This lecture focuses on two distinct but related writing traditions in Southeast Asia: those at centers of power and those at the margins. Looking at centers, the lecture examines religious manuscript production such as Indonesian texts. For the margins, the focus will be on Zomia -- a geographically and culturally peripheral area corresponding to the uplands of mainland Southeast Asia -- where writing and…- Contributor: Brookes, Tim - Kueh, Joshua - Wolfson-Ford, Ryan
- Date: 2021-04-21
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Film, VideoScript Invention and Revitalization in Eastern and Northeastern India Since 1950 The recent history of two areas of India, the eastern and northeastern regions, have seen vibrant movements to create or recreate writing systems for languages like Santali and Sora. These efforts by communities who speak these languages provide alternatives to external pressures to render languages in dominant scripts like Devanagari and the roman alphabet.- Contributor: Loar, Jonathan - Brookes, Tim
- Date: 2021-04-14
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Film, VideoIntroduction to the Southeast Asian Collection This webinar introduces the extensive southeast Asian collections available in the Asian Reading Room and other research centers at the Library of Congress. Learn about the unique collection of items the Library contains with over 370,000 titles consisting of southeast Asian books, newspapers, periodicals, films and more.- Contributor: Kueh, Joshua - Wolfson-Ford, Ryan
- Date: 2021-03-30
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Film, VideoThe Preservation and Presence of Textiles in Library and Museum Collections This panel discussion on the preservation and presence of textiles in library and museum collections was moderated by Charlotte Giles and Jonathan Loar and featured presentations by Dan Paterson, Eiichi Ito, Kathy Woodrell, Maria Fusco and Yasmeen Khan.- Contributor: Khan, Yasmeen - Ito, Eiichi - Giles, Charlotte - Woodrell, Kathy - Loar, Jonathan - Peterson, Dan - Fusco, Maria
- Date: 2020-10-29
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Film, VideoIntroduction to the South Asian Collection An introduction to the Library of Congress South Asian collection available through its Asian Reading Room. South Asian librarians Charlotte Giles and Jonathan Loar delve into South Asian materials in the Asian Division's general collections, rare book collection, web archives, electronic database collections and more. This is also an opportunity to share often overlooked, new and newly digitized items that may be of use…- Contributor: Giles, Charlotte - Loar, Jonathan
- Date: 2019-11-21