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/

VIEWS projectSep 27

If you are interested in punctuation and spacing in text, from any world writing traditions, please join us for Tim Brookes's discussion event:

Sunday 5th October, 12.00 ET / 17.00 BST

Registration link in next comment.

VIEWS projectNov 20, 2024
A brilliant 3D scanning demonstration at the Fitzwilliam Museum, kindly run by Christian Prager and Antje Grothe for the VIEWS team and a group of students. We learned a great deal!
VIEWS projectNov 13, 2024

Our second Introduction to Maya Hieroglyphic Writing seminar, presented by @CHPrager, is today. You can still register to attend by zoom- just click here!

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIpf-yqqjMoGtAZ3YCbGXSa344sV9pI3bsj

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: VIEWS winter seminars 2024. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

VIEWS winter seminars 2024 Each seminar begins at 16.30 GMT and ends at 18.00 GMT. Wednesday 6th November: Christian Prager, An Introduction to Maya Hieroglyphic Writing, Part I Wednesday 13th November: Christian Prager, An Introduction to Maya Hieroglyphic Writing, Part II Wednesday 4th December: Double event Tian Tian: Silent humiliation among logograms: nuanced visual expressions of foreign enemies in Chinese, Egyptian and Tangut script John Will Rice: From misinterpreted to misremembered? Non-textual functions of hieroglyphs in Middle Bronze–Iron Age Palestine

Zoom
VIEWS projectSep 26, 2024
Seen on Facebook! Part 😂 and part interesting commentary on the complicated relationship between graphemes and phonemes in English writing...
VIEWS projectSep 20, 2024

If you are watching the WAVE conference, please feel free to livetweet with the hashtag #waveconference24!

I'll start with this image (from @PhilipJBoyes) taken at @EAlphabets's fantastic paper last night, showing the beautiful carving he presented to us.

VIEWS projectAug 27, 2024

I couldn't think of any examples of ancient writing where a column can be read from bottom to top, but then I thought of this: the ROMA/AMOR "magic square".

Can you think of other examples?

VIEWS projectAug 11, 2024

A red figure kylix, signed by the painter Pheidippos c.510 BCE, with a sports scene - BM but in the @FitzMuseum_UK exhibition on the Paris 1924 Olympics (co-curated by VIEWS committee member Carrie Vout!).

What do you think of the placement of the letters of the painter's name?

VIEWS projectJul 3, 2024
Also, while we were at the family friendly drop in event, we were crawling around on the floor near these lovely 17th C BCE ceramic book-shaped hand warmers!
VIEWS projectJul 3, 2024
Came across this tiny 7th C BCE inscribed Etruscan aryballos while visiting the Fitz @FitzMuseum_UK with my son this morning (GR 4.1929).
VIEWS projectFeb 6, 2024

Are you interested in writing as a visual and visible phenomenon? Do you know people who are? We have a conference coming up and we need you!

I don't just mean academics, I mean practitioners too, like calligaphers, graffiti artists, cartoonists, type designers, etc. And academics too of course - there are no restrictions on subject matter, period or discipline.

People from all backgrounds at all stages of career are encouraged to get involved!