Anchoring the Invention of Writing in Ancient Societies. A Global Comparative Approach - Conference Day 2

Friday the 16th of December

9:15 - 10:25 Paper session 3: Reflections on the invention of writing, ancient and modern

• 9:15 - 9:45 Richard Sproat - A Computational Model of the Invention of Writing. How a New Technology Evolved without a Change of Medium or Institutional Context
• 9:45 - 10:15 Henric Jansen - Who invented writing? Ancient Greek narratives on the invention of the alphabet
• 10:15 - 10:25 Fresco Sam-Sin - Introduction to Pseudoscript

11:00 - 12:00 Paper session 4: Co-existence of writing systems

• 11:00 - 11:30 Remco Breuker - The Unexpected Attractions of a Clerical Script in Korean Antiquity: Hyangga in the Samguk Yusa
• 11:30 - 12:00 Marco Fattori - Old Persian in Aramic script. Scribal expertise and official authority in the Late Achaemenid Period

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 14:30 Paper session 5: Anchoring writing systems I

• 13:30 - 14:00 Elon Heymans - The early alphabetic practice in the southern Levant and the Greek world: context and function
• 14:00 - 14:30 Willemijn Waal - Tying the new to the old. Hittite sealing practices and the introduction of the cuneiform script in Anatolia

14:30 - 15:30 Paper session 6: Anchoring writing systems II

• 14:30 - 15:00 Ben Haring - Anchoring the alphabet in the early second millennium BCE
• 15:00 - 15:30 Guolong Lai - Anchoring Pictograph. The "Positive" and "Negative" Anchoring of Pictograph in the History of Chinese Writing
  

15:30-16:00 Break

16:00 - 17:00 Keynote by Rosalind Thomas - Continuity and innovation, variety and experiment in early Greek writing. Can we apply the concept of anchoring innovation?