Colloque international : Sign & Symbol in Comparative Perspective : 10th edition
Programme
23 mai
- Morning session : chair: DÁNIEL TAKÁCS
- 10h : Opening
- 10h20 :
Numeral function and form / KARENLEIGH A. OVERMANN, University of Colorado
“How do I loathe thee? Let me count the ways”: On the latest misconceptions about Aztec writing / GORDON WHITTAKER, University of Göttingen
- 11h40 : break
- 12h :
Where are the gods’ names in pre-Hispanic codices from central Mesoamerica / KATARZYNA MIKULSKA, University of Warsaw
Embedded glottograms in the images of the gods in Nahuatl Codices from Central Mexico / DANIÈLE DEHOUVE, CNRS-Université Paris Nanterre
- 13h30 : lunch break
- Afternoon session : chair: ANGELA MCDONALD
- 15h30 :
Sematography and layout in Linear A and B / PIPPA STEELE, University of Cambridge
Socializing function of vase inscriptions from Late Archaic Athens / MAŁGORZATA ZADKA, University of Wrocław
- 16h50 : break
- 17h10 :
Visual Wordplay and Writing Systems: A Comparative Study of Rebus Practices in Egypt, China, and Britain / TIAN TIAN, University of Cambridge
The Rhythm of the Line: Cursive, Graffiti and the Poetics of Interowriting / ALICE MAZZILLI
24 mai
- Morning session : chair: GORDON WHITTAKER
- 10h :
Determinatives, Classifiers or Universals? / VALÉRIE ANGENOT, Université du Québec à Montréal
Stuffy determinatives?… Reflecting on how the Egyptians made meaning matter / ANGELA MCDONALD, University of Glasgow
- 11h20 : break
- 11h40 :
Anatolian Hieroglyphic Classifiers / ANNICK PAYNE & OLGA OLINA, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Problem of Kanji Recognition in Stylised Graphies: Graphemic Competence of Japanese University Students as Illustrated by Yamanote Line Eki Sutanpu / ALEKSANDRA WĄSOWICZ-PEINADO & MAGDALENA URBAŃSKA, University of Warsaw
- 13h : lunch break
- Afternoon session : chair: ALEKSANDRA WĄSOWICZ-PEINADO
- 15h :
The Animated Symbol / TIM BROOKES, Champlain College
The Hands that Count: Visual Numeracy and Semantic Gesture / AGNIESZKA HAMANN, University of Warsaw
- 16h20 : break
- 16h40 :
Diphrastic Kennings in Maya Iconography: A visual Approach / ZORAIDA RAIMUNDEZ ARES, Complutense University of Madrid
What is etic in a grapheme? / OLGIERD UZIEMBŁO, University of Warsaw
25 mai
- Morning session : chair: AGNIESZKA BRYLAK
- 10h :
Contextual reading / MICHEL R. OUDIJK, National Autonomous University of Mexico
¿A house of cards? Revisiting the topogram of Tututepec in the Mixtec codices / SEBASTIÁN VAN DOESBURG, National Autonomous University of Mexico
- 11h20 : coffee break
- 11h40 :
Iconicity in the visual lexicons of comics / MICHAŁ SZAWERNA, University of Wrocław
Christian Symbols as a Dating Tool for Late Antique Contracts from Hermopolites (Egypt) / ANETA SKALEC, Polish Academy of Sciences
- 13h : lunch break
- Afternoon session : chair: KATARZYNA MIKULSKA
- 15h :
Spelling out and spilling through: anti-graphs and dioramas in Egyptian hieroglyphic writing / JORDAN MILLER, University of Cambridge
Transfiguration represented on graphic surfaces of an ancient Egyptian tomb / DÁNIEL TAKÁCS, University of Warsaw
- 16h20 : coffee break
- 16h40 :
Metaphorical meanings and semantographic variation: new insights from the recently published Chǔ 楚 manuscripts / MARIAN OLECH, National Chengchi University
The words were new, but the letters were old: efforts to preserve relict Rongorongo literacy system from the past / LISARDO PÉREZ LUGONES, Complutense University of Madrid
Informations pratiques
- 23-25 juin 2025
- Université de Varsovie, Faculty of Modern Languages, Dobra Street 55, room: 3.120
OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Olivier Jacquot (17 juin 2025). Colloque international : Sign & Symbol in Comparative Perspective : 10th edition. Amoxcalli. Consulté le 11 mars 2026 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/14565

