VIEWS project

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Visual Interactions in Early Writing Systems (VIEWS) is a research project at Cambridge University directed by PI Dr Pippa Steele (she/her).

For more info, visit our website at https://viewsproject.wordpress.com/

Over on Twitter I use the handle @crewsproject, which relates to a previous project on early writing systems that you may also find interesting. For all the CREWS posts and resources, see here: https://crewsproject.wordpress.com/

Our conference WAVE 2: Writing As Visual Engagement is nearly here (26th-29th March and 11th April).

You can watch online! Updated programme, abstracts booklet and zoom registration link all here:

https://viewsproject.wordpress.com/writing-as-visual-engagement/

Writing As Visual Engagement

WAVE 2 Faculty of Classics, 26th-29th March 2026 + Online, 11th April 2026 Where our first conference, Writing As Visual Experience, was themed around the visual experiences of writing, our second …

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Adam Yeo's seminar is now online if you missed it and would like to catch up.

https://youtu.be/NSMC-JFrcy8?si=IY_k_urija5gYV_R

Adam Yeo - Writing as Image: A Comparative Visual Study of Bété and Chinese Scripts

YouTube

Tomorrow, Friday 6th March, 4.30pm, hybrid seminar

Adam Yeo, Writing as Image: A Comparative Visual Study of Bété and Chinese Scripts

Room 1.11 Cambridge Faculty of Classics, or watch online: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tIzTe3JtT2KkFH1s0lEjtQ

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: VIEWS Lent Term Seminars. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

VIEWS Lent Term Seminars (Times GMT/UTC+0) Friday 30th January, 4.30pm ONLINE ONLY Reading, Riting, Rithmetic and 1+2=??? The varied roots of quirky sign ordering in Indic orthographies (Christopher Miller) Friday 27th February, 4.30pm ONLINE ONLY Looking at the Inscribed Temple: Reconstructing Viewer Experience at the Sanctuary of Apollo Pythios in Gortyn, Crete (Anna Bertelli) Friday 6th March, 4.30pm IN PERSON + ONLINE ◊ Room 1.11, Faculty of Classics Writing as Image: A Comparative Visual Study of Bété and Chinese Scripts (Adam Yeo)

Zoom

WAVE 2: Writing As Visual Engagement Conference: 26th-29th March (hybrid) and 11th April (online).

Join us for 30+ presentations on writing from around the world, historical and modern!

Programme and Zoom registration via the link.

https://viewsproject.wordpress.com/writing-as-visual-engagement/

Writing As Visual Engagement

WAVE 2 Faculty of Classics, 26th-29th March 2026 + Online, 11th April 2026 Where our first conference, Writing As Visual Experience, was themed around the visual experiences of writing, our second …

The VIEWS project

Today, Friday 27/2 16.30 GMT:
Anna Bertelli "Looking at the Inscribed Temple: Reconstructing Viewer Experience at the Sanctuary of Apollo Pythios in Gortyn, Crete"

A fascinating inscribed space!

Zoom reg: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tIzTe3JtT2KkFH1s0lEjtQ

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: VIEWS Lent Term Seminars. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

VIEWS Lent Term Seminars (Times GMT/UTC+0) Friday 30th January, 4.30pm ONLINE ONLY Reading, Riting, Rithmetic and 1+2=??? The varied roots of quirky sign ordering in Indic orthographies (Christopher Miller) Friday 27th February, 4.30pm ONLINE ONLY Looking at the Inscribed Temple: Reconstructing Viewer Experience at the Sanctuary of Apollo Pythios in Gortyn, Crete (Anna Bertelli) Friday 6th March, 4.30pm IN PERSON + ONLINE ◊ Room 1.11, Faculty of Classics Writing as Image: A Comparative Visual Study of Bété and Chinese Scripts (Adam Yeo)

Zoom

Perhaps this is already well known among the Mastodon crowd, but I thought there would be interest here.

The Granshan Bloom Awards for design embracing script diversity: https://granshan.com/1st-granshan-bloom-communication-design-competition-20252026/bloom-specifics-1

BLOOM Specifics

Specifics. International type design competition with categories, guidelines and submission information.

GRANSHAN

I am honoured to be one of the speakers at the Linguists Collective Conference tomorrow (Saturday 21st February), celebrating International Mother Language Day. I am speaking in the evening slot, but there is a great line-up all day, check out the programme here:

https://conference.linguistscollective.info/

Hey, everyone--I'd be very grateful if you could circulate the news about my new Kickstarter campaign. If it succeeds, I'm going to be able to do a lot of good, but I'm going to need a lot of help first! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/endangeredatlas/bringing-it-back-home
Bringing It Back Home

Getting my endangered alphabets carvings to where they are needed.

Kickstarter

Happy International Lego Classics Day everyone! My offering this year is a Duplo version of a recent research article about writing on Mount Hymettos, Athens, home to some very important inscriptions.

https://viewsproject.wordpress.com/2026/02/20/writing-on-mount-hymettos-in-duplo/

#ILCD10, #InternationalLEGOClassicismDay #BCEPantheon

Writing on Mount Hymettos… in Duplo!

I recently published an article about writing on Mount Hymettos over the last (nearly) 3,000 years – a bit of a departure for me personally because I was trying out some new place-centred app…

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UNESCO has declared 9th February World Greek Language Day (building on the national day), which seems like a good day to share my recently published open access article:

"Mount Hymettos, Athens: A holy place for writing", EGI vol. 1.

https://journals.wisethorough.com/index.php/EGI/article/view/1224

Mount Hymettos, Athens: A Holy Place For Writing | EGI - Epigraphy Graffiti Iconography