Workshop INVENTION OF WRITING






Production of Images and Language Notation is the first INSCRIBE Workshop. It will be a four-session event, spread across four consecutive days (12 - 15 January 2021) on Zoom. The Workshop will be open to everyone who is interested, free of charge.


To access the Workshop, you will need to REGISTER HERE.

Registering once will enable you to access any of the 4 sessions.


Session 1 - 12 January 2021 - Is Iconography a Springboard for Writing?

Session 2 - 13 January 2021 - The Dawn of Writing

Session 3 - 14 January 2021 - More Recent Inventions

Session 4 - 15 January 2021 - Iconic vs non-Iconic Signs


Invited Speakers


Session 1 - Is Iconography a Springboard for Writing?


Derek
Hodgson

The Deep Foundations of Writing Systems: Neuroarchaeology, Neurorecycling, and Pattern Perception

Olivier
Morin

Solving the Puzzle of Ideography

Gwenola
Graff

Egyptian Predynastic Iconography and Early Hieroglyphic Writing: What Kind of Relationship?

Jennifer C.
Ross

On the Periphery: Communicative Practices and Signs at the Dawn of Writing in Mesopotamia


Session 2 - The Dawn of Writing


Dennys
Frenez

Crafting a Writing System: Insights on the Invention and Development of the Indus Script

Andréas
Stauder

Iconicity and Early Phoneticization in Egyptian Writing, c. 3100 BCE

Françoise
Bottéro

The Beginnings of the Chinese Writing

Christian
Prager

Maya Writing between Tradition and Innovation


Session 3 - More Recent Inventions


Piers
Kelly

The Dynamics of Iconicity in Emergent Scripts

Davide
Domenici

Texts as Images: Observations on Teotihuacan ‘Emblematic Writing’ and its Reception in the Maya Area

Gordon
Whittaker

The Controversial Relationship between Aztec Iconography and Writing

Konstantin
Pozdniakov

The Rongorongo Script

Miguel
Valério

Evidence for Language Notation in the Rongorongo Script


Session 4 - Iconic vs non-Iconic Signs


Barbara
Montecchi

To What Extent is Linear A ‘Linear’?

Sabine
Hyland

Iconic Signs in a Non-Iconic Writing System: Khipus with Potatoes, Feathers, Figurines and Other Objects

Alex
de Voogt

Optional and Ephemeral Iconicity in the History of Writing Systems

Mark
Changizi

The Nature of Language and Music


Chairing


Silvia
Ferrara

Principal Investigator INSCRIBE