Programme

Alan JOHNSTON (UCL)—Straight, Crooked and Joined-Up Writing: An early Mediterranean view
Stephen KIDD (NYU)—Written Greek but Drawn Egyptian: Script changes in a bilingual dream papyrus
Alexander NAGEL (Michigan)—Everlasting Blues: Colour and the epigraphic habit in Achaemenid Persia, c. 520-330 BCE

12:15-13:30 LUNCH

13:30–14:45 Practical demonstration & discussion: Egyptian Scripts

Paul ANTONIO (Calligrapher)

14:45–15:00 BREAK

15:00–16:00 Scribal Practice & Technological Choice II

Discussant: Dot PORTER (Royal Irish Academy)

Helena TOMAS (Zagreb)—Saving on Clay: The Linear B practice of cutting tablets
Jacob DAHL (Oxford)—The Marks of Early Writing

16:00–16:30 TEA BREAK

16:30–17:30 Defining ‘Writing’ I

Discussant: Cornelia KLEINITZ (Humboldt)

Leslie VAN GELDER (Walden U, Minneapolis)—Paleolithic Finger Flutings and the Question of Writing
Frank SALOMON (Wisconsin-Madison)—The Twisting Paths of Recall: Khipu (Andean cord notation) as artefact

18:00–19:30 WINE RECEPTION

SATURDAY 16 MAY (Room 612)

10:00–11:00 Defining ‘Writing’ II

Discussant: Ruth WHITEHOUSE (UCL)

Elisa PEREGO (UCL)—The Other Writing: Iconic literacy and situla art in Pre-Roman Veneto (Italy)
Sarah JACKSON (Cincinnati)—Writing as Material Technology: Transforming socio-political landscapes in Classic Maya contexts

11:00–11:30 COFFEE BREAK

11:30–12:45 Methods: From the physical to the digital

Discussant: John TAIT (UCL)

Liz PYE (UCL)—Writing Conservation: The impact of text on conservation decisions and practice
Stephen QUIRKE (UCL)—The Pigment on the Paper: Computer-aided palaeography as insight into Middle Bronze Age social history on the lower Nile
Robin HUNT (UCL)—Betwixt Europe: A case study of digital subsidence

12:45–14:00 LUNCH

14:00–15:15 Inscribed Object Worlds & Social Constructions

Discussant: Sarah FINLAYSON (Sheffield)

Helène WHITTAKER (Tromsø)—The Function and Meaning of Writing in the Prehistoric Aegean: Some reflections on the social and symbolic significance of writing
Rachael SPARKS (UCL)—Re-Writing the Script: Decoding the textual experience in the Bronze Age Levant (c. 2000-1150 BC)
Craig CESSFORD (Cambridge)—Different Times, Different Materials and Different Purposes: Writing on objects at the Grand Arcade site in Cambridge

15:15–16:15 Workshops: Egyptian Scripts & Cuneiform in Practice

Paul ANTONIO (Calligrapher) and Jonathan TAYLOR (British Museum)

16:15–16:45 TEA BREAK

16:45–18:00 Material Transformations, Display & Perception

Discussant: Ruth WHITEHOUSE (UCL)

Kathryn E. PIQUETTE (UCL & TCD)—“It is Written”?: Making, remaking and unmaking early ‘writing’ in the lower Nile Valley
Georgia FLOUDA (Herakleion Museum)—Materiality of Minoan Writing: Modes of display and perception
Stephanie M. LANGIN-HOOPER (UC Berkeley)—Aesthetics and Cuneiform: Text as art on the Old Babylonian Law Code Stele of Hammurabi

SUNDAY 17 MAY (Room 612)

10:00–11:20 Writing as Embodied Practice & Performance I

Discussant: Kathryn E. PIQUETTE (UCL & TCD)

Michael Franklin LANE (Maryland)—Reading / Writing as Situated Speech Act and Material Practice: Examples from Mycenaean Linear B
Ruth WHITEHOUSE (UCL)—'Tombstones' in the North Italian Iron Age: Material, form and function
Brett L. WISNIEWSKI (NYU)—Curse Tablets and the Performance of Text
Rick HAUSER (Minnesota)—Gudea's Inscribed Statues: Performativity · Liminal Surface · Enculturation

11:20–11:45 COFFEE BREAK

11:45–13:00 Writing as Embodied Practice & Performance II

Discussant: John MORELAND (Sheffield)

Eyal POLEG (Edinburgh)—Memory, Performance and Change: The Psalms’ layout in English Bibles 1200-1600
Lesley ACTON (UCL)—The New Cook: Culinary skills, literacy and the transfer of knowledge
Samantha EDWARDS-VANDENHOEK (Western Sydney)—Behind Closed Doors: An analysis of contemporary graffiti writings in situ from Sydney’s recent urban past

13:00–13:30 CLOSING REMARKS

John BENNET (Sheffield)

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