Invention and Re-invention of Writing
Chair: Silvia Ferrara
10:00-10:30
Paola Demattè (Rhode Island School of Design)
Chinese Writing: Origin or Origins?
10:30-11:00
Stephen Houston (Brown University)
Origin Tales: The Beginnings of Maya Writing
Coffee break at Sala Boschereccia, ground floor (11:00-11:30)
11:30-12:00
Barbara Montecchi (University of Florence)
The Origins of Writing in Bronze Age Crete and the Conundrum of Documents in Perishable Materials
12:00-12:30
Miguel Valério (Autonomous University of Barcelona)
Evidence for Morphemic Glyphs in the Rongorongo of Rapa Nui
Lunch break at Sala Boschereccia, ground floor (12:30-14:00)
The Decipherment of Ancient Scripts
Chair: Ludovica Ottaviano
14:00-14:30
Jacob L. Dahl (University of Oxford)
The Decipherment of Very Ancient Scripts from Iraq and Iran
14:30-15:00
Zev Handel (University of Washington)
The “Contact Matrix” as a Model for Understanding Logographic Script Borrowing and a Tool for Decipherment
15:00-15:30
Nisha Yadav (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)
Enigma of the Script of the Indus Valley Civilization
Coffee break at Sala Boschereccia, ground floor (15:30-16:00)
16:00-16:30
John Bennet (University of Sheffield)
“A Frivolous Digression” – Did the Decipherment of Linear B Transform the Aegean Late Bronze Age?
16:30-17:00
Enrico Benelli (Roma Tre University)
The decipherment of the Etruscan alphabet. A tale of Enlightenment thinkers and neverending misconceptions
17:00-17:30
Anna Foka (Uppsala University)
Mapping Ancient Descriptions of Space and Place: The Digital Periegesis Project
19:30 for 20:00 Conference dinner at Vicolo Colombina (invited guests only)
