Conference
Egyptian and Maya Writing:
Comparing Hieroglyphic Domains
June 9 – 11
eikones Forum
eikones Forum
Program
Friday, June 9
| 8.45 – 9.15 | Welcome coffee, registration |
| 9.15 – 9.45 | Introduction (Stephen Houston, Andréas Stauder) |
Session I – Allography, Variation, Sign Development
discussion leader: Andréas Stauder
| 9.45 – 12.15 | Christian Prager (Universität Bonn): The Same Difference: Modes of Allography in Maya Hieroglyphic Texts |
| Marc Zender (Tulane University, New Orleans): Towards a Maya Paleography:Aspects of sign development,regional variation, and idiosyncratic style in Classic Maya Writing | |
| 12.15 – 13.15 | Lunch (eikones, Rheinsprung) |
| 13.15 – 14.30 | Ludwig Morenz (Universität Bonn): Superglyphs mimicking a mythem of secret sacral knowledge. Ways of using hieroglyphs beyond regular writing |
| 14.30 – 17.00 | Workshop on the Tikal lintels, Museum der Kulturen |
| 18.30 | Reception at eikones, Rheinsprung |
Saturday, June 10
(Session I, continued)
| 9.15 – 10.15 | Antonio Loprieno (Universität Basel – eikones): Divorce between logographic and phonographic values of hieroglyphic |
Session II – Composition, Elaboration, Agentivity
discussion leader: David Stuart
| 10.30 – 13.00 | Dimitri Meeks (CNRS, Montpellier / Paris): Composite hieroglyphs: a typology |
| Simon Martin (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology): Plasticity and Permeation: Conflation, Infixation, Superimposition, and other Combinatory Principles in Classic Maya Writing | |
| 13.00 – 14.30 | Lunch (eikones, Rheinsprung) |
discussion leader: John Baines
| 14.30 – 17.00 | David Klotz (Universität Basel / Yale University – eikones):Full-bodied, anthropomorphic hieroglyphs in New Kingdom and Graeco-Roman cryptography, and emblematic / rebus analogues in sculpture and reliefs |
| Stephen Houston (Brown University, Providence) Sign Definition, Ontological Elaboration, and Presence-Absence in Maya Glyphs | |
| 19.30 | Conference dinner – Kunsthalle, «Schluuch» |
Sunday, June 11
Session III – Hieroglyphs and Aesthetic Culture,
Relation to Other Modes of Visual Expression
discussion leader: Antonio Loprieno
| 9.30 – 12.00 | Dmitri Beliaev (Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow):Classic Maya Hieroglyphic Writing and Imagery: Between Iconicity and Symbolism |
| Andréas Stauder (École Pratique des Hautes Études /PSL Research University, Paris – eikones): Visual Qualities of Egyptian Hieroglyphic Signs, and Foregrounded Iconicity | |
| 12.00 – 13.30 | Lunch (eikones, Rheinsprung) |
discussion leader: Stephen Houston
| 13.30 – 16.00 | John Baines (University of Oxford): How do Egyptian hieroglyphs and other images both work together and stay apart? |
| David Stuart (University of Texas Austin): Intersections of Text, Image and Object in Ancient Maya Hieroglyphic Writing | |
| 16.00 – 16.30 | Closing remarks; publication |
Concept: Andréas Stauder, David Klotz, Stephen Houston
Speakers: David Klotz, Antonio Loprieno, Andréas Stauder, John Baines, Dmitri Beliaev, Stephen Houston, Simon Martin, Dimitri Meeks, Ludwig Morenz, Christian Prager, David Stuart, Marc Zender
Downloads: Poster, Program
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