Anchoring the Invention of Writing in Ancient Societies. A Global Comparative Approach - Conference Day 1

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Preliminary program

Thursday 15th of December

14:00 - 14:15 Opening by Willemijn Waal

14:15 - 15:15 Paper session 1: Writing and Orality I

14:15 - 14:45 Peter Bisschop - From Orality to Writing. The Palimpsest of the Purāṇas
14:45 - 15:15 Bernardo Ballesteros Petrella - The resilience of orality in cuneiform and the alphabet: Greek and Babylonian epic

15:15 - 15:35 Break

15:35 - 16:35 Paper session 2: Writing & Orality II

15:35 - 16:05 André Lardinois - Sappho's silent children: When and why were Sappho's songs first being read?
16:05 - 16:35 Nienke Vos - (Il)literacy in early Christian monasticism: Ambiguous anchoring

16:35 - 19:30 Drinks and dinner

19:30 Keynote by Silvia Ferrara - Writing, in the deep

Are you interested in following (part of) this conference and/or attending the evening keynote lecture of Silvia Ferrara at the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden on December 15th?
Please register before 12 December 2022 by sending an email to:
Dante Aramideh (d.s.aramideh@hum.leidenuniv.nl)

Date	15 December 2022
Time	14:00 - 21:30
Location	Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (RMO)
Organizer(s)	Ineke Sluiter Willemijn Waal