This lecture series aims at discussing texts describing the origins and use of scripts and alphabets and their functions as metaphors in various cultures, from the Near and Middle East to China.
24.4.2018 | |
18:00 - 20:00 | The Judeo-Arabic commentary tradition on the Sefer Yetzirah Adrian Pirtea |
8.5.2018 | |
18:00 - 20:00 | Considering the Sealand Tablets for the birth of alphabet David Hamidovic |
15.5.2018 | |
18:00 - 20:00 | The Economy of Translating Arabo-Persian texts into Chinese Dror Weil |
22.5.2018 | |
18:00 - 20:00 | Book Launch: Multinlingualism, Lingua Franca, Lingua Sacra, ed. J. E. Braarvig and M. J. Geller Jens Braarvig |
29.5.2018 | |
18:00 - 20:00 | Demarcating Science in Heavenly Writing Francesca Rochberg |
5.6.2018 | |
18:00 - 18:15 | Anfänge und Funktion der luwischen Hieroglyphenschrift Jörg Klinger |
18:15 - 18:30 | Logogramme im Hethitischen Joost Hazenbos |
18:30 - 18:45 | Die hurritischen Emar-Texte: Ein Korpus, zwei Syllabare und auffällige Zeichenvarianten Sebastian Fischer |
12.6.2018 | |
18:00 - 20:00 | Writing Sumerian in Chaldean Babylonia: Reflections on the Linguistic Geography of Babylonia in the Early First Millennium BC Christian Hess |
19.6.2018 | |
18:00 - 20:00 | Scripts and Codes in Coptic alchemical papyri Tonio Sebastian Richter |
26.6.2018 | |
18:00 - 20:00 | Coptic Pharmacological Texts - Cryptographic Drug Names in P. Méd. Copt. IFAO Anne Grons |
3.7.2018 | |
18:00 - 20:00 | Script and hierarchy in non-normative Islamic traditions: the example of the Alevis David Shankland |
10.7.2018 | |
18:00 - 20:00 | Scripts, languages, sciences in Islamicate societies Sonja Brentjes |