Symposium
We aim to bring together:
- Expert accounts of new data
- Original results in script research
- Hands-on presentations of materials from special library collections
Preparation, materials
No preparation is required for the audience. All materials will be provided at the symposium.
Some suggestions for further reading are listed in our Literature section.
Time
Monday, 20 May 2019
10:30am to 5:00pm
Venue
University Library
Vossius Room
Witte Singel 27
2311 BG Leiden
Registration
Entrance is free but seats are limited.
Please register at the Leiden University Library site.
10:30am Imre Galambos University of Cambridge "Handwriting competence in Dunhuang manuscripts" 11:15am Suzanne Burdorf Ghent University "The sense of sound: A medieval perspective on phonetic elements in the script" 12:00n Lunch break No lunch provided by the program 1:00pm Willemijn van Noord University of Amsterdam &
National Museum of World Cultures"Between script and ornament: Delftware decorated with
pseudo-Chinese characters, 1680-1720"1:45pm Fresco Sam-Sin Leiden University "Brailliant pedagogies: Sinitic braille and its value to the CFL classroom" 2:30pm Tea & coffee Pop-up exhibition #1, Heinsius Room – Tea & coffee allowed outside the Heinsius room 2:45pm Jeroen Wiedenhof Leiden University "A new China, a new script?" 3:30pm Laura Vermeeren University of Amsterdam "Remediations of the sinograph in contemporary China" 4:15pm Imre Galambos University of Cambridge "Chinese book forms in the Leiden University Library" 5:00pm Drinks Pop-up exhibition #2, Heinsius Room – Drinks allowed outside the Heinsius room
Background reading: some suggestions
About writing & scripts
- Daniels, Peter T., and William Bright, The world’s writing systems. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
- Omniglot / Alphabets & writing systems. Omniglot, the online encyclopedia of writing systems and languages, 2019.
About Chinese writing & scripts
General
- Behr, Wolfgang, “In the interstices of representation: Ludic writing and the locus of polysemy in the Chinese sign”, in: The idea of writing: Play and complexity. Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2010, pp.281-314.
- Boltz, William G., The origin and early development of the Chinese writing system. New Haven: American Oriental Society, 1994.
- Erbaugh, Mary S., Difficult characters: Interdisciplinary studies of Chinese and Japanese writing. Pathways to Advanced Skills Series, Volume VI. Columbus: National East Asian Language Resource Center, Ohio State University, 2002.
- Handel, Zev, “Can a logographic script be simplified? Lessons from the 20th century Chinese writing reform informed by recent psycholinguistic research”. Scripta, Volume 5, 2013, pp. 21-66.
- Kraus, Richard Kurt, Brushes with power. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.
- Lunde, Ken, CJKV information processing. Sebastopol: O’Reilly, 1999.
- McCawley, James D., The eater’s guide to Chinese characters. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984.
- Unger, J. Marshall, Chinese characters and the myth of disembodied meaning. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2004.
This symposium
- Galambos, Imre, Orthography of early Chinese writing: Evidence from newly excavated manuscripts. Budapest, Department Of East Asian Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, 2006.
- von Falkenhausen, Lothar, "Inconsequential incomprehensions: Some instances of Chinese writing in alien contexts, RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics, Volume 35, Spring 1999, pp. 42-69.
- 厉致谦 Lì Zhiqiān and 吴祎萌 Wú Yīméng, 徐学成的故事 "Xú Xuéchéng de gùshi" [Xú Xuéchéng's story]. Type is beautiful, 2014.
- van Noord, Willemijn, "Nicolaes Witsen’s Chinese mirror and the logistics of translating Han dynasty seal-script at the turn of the 18th century". In T. de Graaf, W. Honselaar, et. al. (eds.), The fascination with Inner Eurasian languages in the 17th century: The Amsterdam mayor Nicolaas Witsen and his collection of ‘Tartarian’ vocabularies and scripts, Amsterdam: Pegasus, 2018, pp. 579-602.
- Vermeeren, Laura, "In the digital age, ‘handwritten Weibo’ have become all the rage". What's on Weibo, 17 May 2015.
