The conference INSCRIBE at the Roots of Writing aims to contribute to the ongoing study on this topic by gathering a group of distinguished scholars and experts on the evolution of writing, early script invention, decipherment prospects, digital humanities & AI research applied to ancient scripts. It will take place over three days, each with a different theme: The Evolution and Invention of Writing The Decipherment of Ancient Scripts: State-of-the-Art Digital Humanities and AI applied to Ancient Scripts.
Here below the list of invited speakers and provisional programme:
Institutional Greetings from the Director
Nicola Grandi (University of Bologna)
Marco Mancini (University of Rome "La Sapienza")
Carlo Severi (Collège de France)
Alex de Voogt (Drew University)
Mariagrazia Portera (University of Florence)
Andréas Stauder (École Pratique des Hautes Études)
John Baines (University of Oxford)
Roger Matthews & Amy Richardson (University of Reading)
Sarah Scott (Wagner College)
Paola Demattè (Rhode Island School of Design)
Stephen Houston (Brown University)
Barbara Montecchi (University of Florence)
Miguel Valério (Autonomous University of Barcelona)
John Bennet (University of Sheffield)
Jacob Dahl (University of Oxford)
Zev Handel (University of Washington)
Nisha Yadav (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)
Mattia Crespi, Roberta Ravanelli & Lorenzo Lastilla (Sapienza, University of Rome)
Fabio Tamburini (University of Bologna)
Michele Corazza (University of Bologna)
Anna Foka (Uppsala University)
Clélia Paladre (Musée du Louvre, Paris)
Svenja Bonmann (University of Cologne)
Lucrezia Milillo (University of St Andrews)
Logan Born (Simon Fraser University)
Andrew Robinson