27.2952, Calls: Writing Systems/Georgia

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Subject: 27.2952, Calls: Writing Systems/Georgia

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Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 14:05:49
From: Tsira Baramidze [caucasiology at gmail.com]
Subject: IV International Congress of the Caucasiologists

 
Full Title: IV International Congress of the Caucasiologists 
Short Title: ICC-SC 

Date: 01-Dec-2016 - 03-Dec-2016
Location: Tbilisi, Georgia 
Contact Person: Tsira Baramidze
Meeting Email: congresscom2016 at gmail.com
Web Site: http://caucasiology.tsu.ge/congress/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Writing Systems 

Subject Language(s): Aghwan (xag)
                     Armenian (hye)
                     Georgian (kat)

Call Deadline: 21-Sep-2016 

Meeting Description:

IV International Congress of the Caucasiologists
 
Tbilisi, Georgia
1-3 December, 2016

The Institute of Caucasiology of  Faculty of Humanities  of  Iv. Javakhishvili
 Tbilisi  State University and Arn. Chikobava Institute of  Linguistics invite
you to participate in the IV International Congress of the Caucasiologists,
which will be held on 1-3 December, 2016 at Tbilisi State University. 

Congress main topic:  ''Scripts in the Caucasus''.

Congress working languages: Georgian, English, Russian

Congress webpage: http://caucasiology.tsu.ge/congress/

Chairperson of  International Congress,
Head of the Institute of Caucasiology, Professor
Tsira  Baramidze
24. 05. 2016


Call for Papers:

The goal of the Congress is the interdisciplinary study of the problems
related to scripts, and the scientific analysis of these issues.  

These issues are:

- Historical types of  alphabets (Georgian, Albanian, Armenian)  of the
Caucasus and development of these scripts
- Theories about the origin of the Caucasian scripts
- Caucasian script from comparative perspective
- Epigraphy in the Caucasus and beyond it
- Using of the scripts of the Oriental languages for the Caucasian languages
- Writing systems of Pagan era
- Alphabets of new literary languages
- United international transcription system
- Script - as a policy tool
- Semantic-etymological issues of the vocabulary related to writing culture
- Cryptographic systems of script
- Old systems of count and calendar related to alphabet
And so forth.

Application and the materials will be accepted until 21 September, 2016,
email: congresscom2016 at gmail.com.  

A Georgian reporter should accept reports proceedings in three languages
(Georgian, English, Russian); a non-Georgian one, in two languages (English,
Russian). The proceedings will be published in three languages (Georgian,
English, Russian).

You’ll be informed about the inclusion of a paper in a program by 10 October,
2016.




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