“World Scripts: Concepts and Practices of Writing from a Comparative Perspective” will be held from 4th to 14th September 2015 at the Institute for Humanities in Africa (HUMA), Cape Town, South Africa.
Tue 18 Aug 2015
This Winter Academy will explore, from a comparative and global perspective, the vocabularies and typologies of writing in various philological traditions and the role of script as a technology in the production, diffusion, archiving and exchange of knowledge. Hosted at the University of Cape Town, the Summer Academy will focus on the experience of writing and the technologies of script on the African continent, and will especially explore comparative cases and entangled histories that connect Africa to the Arabophone world, the Mediterranean region and through the Indian Ocean to South and Southeast Asia.
Organized by:
Zukunftsphilologie, Forum Transregionale Studien, Max Weber Stiftung - Geisteswissenschaftliche Institute im Ausland, Institute for Humanities in Africa (HUMA), University of Cape Town, French Institute South Africa
Convened by:
Members of the Zukunftsphilologie Collegium
You will find further information on academies blog.
