World Scripts News III: Lectures and all the Work in the Background
- Michael Allen and Bodhisatva Kar after their discussion on Concepts of Writing and the Materiality of Language
- Shamil Jeppie’s Lecture on”Notes on the Location of Philology in Africa”
- Vanessa Vehling in her office in Cape Town
- Islam Dayeh
- Nir Shafir before his presentation this morning
- Islam Dayeh during a discussion
- Stefan Leder (German Orient Institute Beirut) before his lecture on “Arabic Philology and the Conquest of Foreign Languages: Script, Language and Cognition (11th – 12th centuries)”
- From left to right: Abdur Rahoof Ottathingal, Meikal Mumin, Nir Shafir, Naveen Kanalu, Olly Akkerman, Australian Git, Shamil Jeppie, Judith Bihr, Susana Mollins Lliteras, Lena Salaymeh, Arun Rasiah.
The public program for the last three days of our Winter Academy:
Friday, September 11
11.30-1pm: Panel Discussion 5
History, Archive and Language Politics in Africa
Chair: Shamil Jeppie (UCT)
Carolyn Hamilton (UCT) “Reading the James Stuart Archive of Recorded Oral Evidence and its Textual Offspring”
Mathias Brenzinger (UCT) “Language Archives: Prospects and Limitations in the Documentation of Oral Languages”
2-3.30pm: Lecture
Abdulkader Tayob (UCT), “Between Text and Culture in the Teaching of Religion in South Africa”
Chair: Georges Khalil (Forum Transregionale Studien)
Saturday, September 12
11.30-1am: Panel Discussion 6
The European Discovery of Writing
Chair: Pascale Rabault-Feuerhahn (CNRS Paris)
Adrien Delmas(Institut Français d’Afrique du Sud), “Portuguese Encounters with African Written Cultures in the 16th century”
Elisabetta Benigni (University of Turin), “‘Engraved Marble and Lost Scripts’”: Discussing Arabic Epigraphs in 18th and 19th century Italy”
Federico Navarrete Linares (Universidad Autónoma de México), “‘There Are Many Ways to Read a Drawing’: the European Interpretation of Pictographical Writing”
2-3.30pm Film and Lecture
Michael Allan (University of Oregon), “Picturing Philology: Early Cinema and Worldly Scripts”
Sunday, September 13
9.30-11am: Panel Discussion 7
Script Reform and Invention from a Global Comparative Perspective
Chair: Shamil Jeppie (UCT)
Erdem Aydin (Boğaziçi University, Istanbul), “Script Reform in Turkey”
Thomas Mullaney (Stanford University), “Beyond “Romanization”: The Case of the Chinese Transalphabet”
Piers Kelly (Australian National University), “Why Some New Scripts Fail and Others Succeed”