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.

Program

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