10.251, Confs: Origins of Writing/Image,Symbol,Script

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Subject: 10.251, Confs: Origins of Writing/Image,Symbol,Script

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Date:  Mon, 15 Feb 1999 22:46:07 -0500
From:  "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim at worldnet.att.net>
Subject:  Origins of Writing Symposium

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Date:  Mon, 15 Feb 1999 22:46:07 -0500
From:  "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim at worldnet.att.net>
Subject:  Origins of Writing Symposium




The Center for Ancient Studies at the University of Pennsylvania  is
pleased to announce our Second Annual Symposium, made possible in part
by a grant from the Helen Clay Frick Foundation:

"The Multiple Origins of Writing: Image, Symbol, and Script"

March 26th and 27th, 1999

Rainey Auditorium
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
33rd and Spruce Streets

The invention of writing was fundamental to the evolutionary course of
human culture.  Even shortly after its invention, its importance was
remarked on in the myths of Sumer and Egypt. In the past two decades
substantial new evidence has lead to a more complex understanding of
this
achievement. This conference brings together experts in the earliest
writing systems.  For two days they will present and discuss their
findings
comparing systems as well as the symbolic and social environments in
which
they evolved.

PROGRAM:

Friday, March 26, 1999

Coffee

9:00-9:30: Welcome and Introductory Remarks
vHolly Pittman, Associate Professor, Department of the History of Art,
University of Pennsylvania
Director, Center for Ancient Studies

9:30-10:15: General Introduction to Theories of Origins of Writing
Peter Damerow, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin

10:15-10:30: The Iconicity of Writing
Anne-Marie Christin, Professor, University of Paris 7, Director, Centre
d'etude de l'ecriture

Break

Egypt

10:45-11:30:  Early Egyptian writing and its social context
John Baines, Professor of Egyptology,  Oxford University

11:30-12:15: The Origins of Writing in Ancient Egypt
Pascal Vernus, Director of Studes, L'Ecole practique des hautes etudes.
4th
section.

12:15-1:00:  The Icon in the Role of the Classifier: On the Semiotics of
the Egyptian Determinative System.
Orly Goldwasser, Head of the Department of Ancient Near Eastern
Languages
and Cultures.  The Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

Lunch  1-2:30:

Box lunches will be available for those who reserve one in advance.

In Lower Egyptian Gallery

The Near East

2:30-3:15: The Role of Art in the Origins of Writing: Sumer
Holly Pittman

3:15-4:00: The Origins of Proto-Cuneiform
Hans Nissen: Professor, Freie Universitat, Berlin

4:00-4:45: The Origins of Proto-Elamite Script
Robert Englund, Associate Professor, Department of Near Eastern
Languages
and Literatures,  University of California at Los Angeles

Reception

5:30-8:00: Museum Cafe

Saturday, March 27th 1999

Coffee

Indus Valley

9:15-10:00: Origins of the Indus Script
Gregory L. Possehl, Professor, Dept of Anthropology, University of
Pennsylvania

China

10:00-10:45: The Archaeological Background of Writing in Early China
Louisa Huber, Harvard University

10:45-11:30: Comments on the Origin of Writing in China
William G. Boltz , Professor, University of Washington (Seattle)

11:30-12:15: Another Story of the Origin of Writing in China
Victor Mair, Professor, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies,
University of Pennsylvania

12:15-1:00: Script, Image and Literacy in the Old World and Asia
Piotr Michalowski, George G. Cameron Professor of Ancient Near Eastern
Civilizations, Dept. of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan,
Ann
Arbor.

Lunch 1:-2:30

Box lunches will be available for those who reserve them in advance.

In Lower Egyptian Gallery

2:30-3:15: The Early Scripts of Mesoamerica
John Justeson, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
University of New York at Albany

3:15-4:00: Alphabetology
Barry B. Powell,  Bascom-Halls Professor of Classics at the University
of
Wisconsin-Madison

4:00-4:45:  A Study of Origins
Peter T. Daniels, Independent Scholar, University of Chicago and New
York City.

This symposium is free and open to the public.

For more information, or to reserve a box lunch, please contact Sarah
Kupperberg at ancient at sas.upenn.edu.  Box lunches will cost $11, and
reservations must be received by Friday, March 18th.


Holly Pittman <hpittman at sas.upenn.edu>
Associate Professor, History of Art
     Jaffe Bldg (215-898-3251)
Director, Center for Ancient Studies
     University of Pennsylvania Museum (215-573-6099)
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Peter T. Daniels		grammatim at worldnet.att.net

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