World Scripts: Concepts and Practices of Writing from a Comparative Perspective
4–14 September 2015, Cape Town
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS [click on the names to find more information]:
Name | Theme | |
1. | Ahmar, May (City University of NY/ Columbia U) | Contact and variation of Aramaic and Arabic scripts |
2. | Akkerman, Olly (Free University Berlin) | Bohra Manuscript Culture, Archive and Secrecy |
3. | Aydin, Erdem (Boğaziçi University, Istanbul) | Modernizing the Ottoman Script in the early 20th century: Revisiting the “Separated Letters” |
4. | Bihr, Judith (University of Cologne) | The Subversive Potential of Calligraphical Structures in Contemporary Egyptian Art within a transcultural Perspective |
5. | Brandt, Carmen (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg) | The Manifold Challenges and Functions of Script in Modern South Asia |
6. | Ivusic, Branka (Hamburg University) | Seven languages in one (manu)script |
7. | Kanalu Ramamurthy, Naveen (University of Strasbourg and Frankfurt) | The Script as Speaking the Word: Scribes, Inscriptions, and Sovereignty in the Early Kannada Literary Ecology (900–1200) |
8. | Kawo, Hassen Muhammed (University of Cape Town) | The Making of an Islamic Culture of Writing, Reading and Collecting in Ethiopia |
9. | Kelly, Piers (Australian National University) | The preconditions of grammatogeny: A contextual comparison of script invention in Africa and the Asia-Pacific |
10. | Kuzuoglu, Ulug (Columbia University) | Informed Minds: Communication, Cognition, and Script in China, 1892-1955 |
11. | Molins Lliteras, Susana (University of Cape Town) | Africa Starts in the Pyrenees”: The Fondo Kati, between al-Andalus and Timbuktu |
12. | Mullaney, Tom (Stanford University) | Hot Metal Empire: Script, Media, and Colonialism in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East |
13. | Mumin, Meikal (University of Cologne) | The Arabic Script in Africa |
14. | Navarrete Linares, Federico (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) | Writing and drawing in Colonial Mexico: between truth and historical memory |
15. | Nieber, Hanna (Free University Berlin) | Drinking the Written Qur’an: Scripture and Healing in Zanzibar Town |
16. | Ottathingal, Abdur Rahoof (Leiden University) | Translocal Mediations in Vernacular Islam: Arabi-Malayalam and Trans-Formations of Muslim Textual Culture in Malabar(16th -20th c.) |
17. | Pandey, Anshuman (University of California, Berkeley) | The Durability and Circulation of Global Graphemic Archetypes |
18. | Rasiah, Arun (University of California, Berkeley) | On the Shores of Learning: Scriptural Formations of Muslim Intellectual Culture in the Indian Ocean World |
19. | Shafir, Nir (University of California, Los Angeles) | Rethinking Islamic manuscript cultures through cheap manuscripts, public writing, and calligraphy in the Ottoman Empire |
20. | Trento, Margherita (University of Chicago) | Writing Christianity in the Tamil Country(16-18thcenturies) |
21. | Vu Duc, Liem (Hamburg University) | Beyond the Empires: Bureaucratic Manuscripts and PoliticalCulture in Early Nineteenth-Century Vietnam and China |