09:00-10:00
Registration
10:00-10:30
Institutional Greetings from the Head of Department, Nicola Grandi (University of Bologna)
Welcome and Introduction, Silvia Ferrara (University of Bologna)
The Evolution of Writing
Chair: Silvia Ferrara
10:30-11:00
Marco Mancini (University of Rome "La Sapienza")
The Sociology of Writing and the Evolution of Scripts
11:00-11:30
Carlo Severi (Collège de France)
Reading Images: Scripts and Icons in Native American Graphic Systems
Coffee break at Sala Boschereccia, ground floor (11:30-12:00)
12:00-12:30
Alex de Voogt (Drew University)
Writing System Practice
12:30-13:00
Mariagrazia Portera (University of Florence)
The Enchantment of Beauty: a Possible Role for Aesthetics in the Origin of Writing
Lunch break at Sala Boschereccia, ground floor (13:00-14:00)
The Invention of Writing
Chair: Kathryn Erin Kelley
14:00-14:30
John Baines (University of Oxford)
Who Benefited from the Gradual Introduction and Development of Writing, and How?
14:30-15:00
Roger Matthews, Barbara Helwing, Amy Richardson, Heike Dohmann, and Helen Gries (University of Reading and Vorderasiatisches Museum)
States of Clay, 3700-2500 BCE: Investigating the Earliest Bureaucracies of the Middle East through Integrated Analysis of Clay Objects
Coffee break at Sala Boschereccia, ground floor (15:00-15:30)
15:30-16:00
Sarah Scott (Wagner College)
Thinking Outside the Box: Uruk Glyptic as Pictorial Organization
16:00-16:30
Andréas Stauder (École Pratique des Hautes Études)
TBC
16:30-17:00
Felipe Rojas Silva with Stephen Houston (Brown University)
In Vitro Scriptogenesis: Inventing Writing in a Classroom
18:00 Aperitivo at Camera con Vista (invited guests only)
