Visual Interactions in Early Writing Systems (VIEWS) is a UKRI Frontier Research Grant, no. EP/X028240/1, based at Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge.
Cambridge, England
Joined May 2016
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The VIEWS project is based at Cambridge and run by PI Dr Pippa Steele (she/her). We are conducting new research on visual aspects of writing systems in the pre-modern world and examining relationships between writing and visual culture.
Visit our website: viewsproject.wordpress.com/
Hot off the press, our VIEWS autumn seminars - with hybrid papers on Nsibidi and Dongba (plus Mycenaean and Cypriot writing but in person only).
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Join us for a special VIEWS/EWRN event:
Monday 28th September
19.30 BST
Korede Aderele
“A Computational Approach to Yoruba Symbolic Systems: Interpreting Door Panels as an Extension of Oral History”
Zoom registration: cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/re…
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Writing and Pseudo-Scripts: Architectural contexts and script-image phenomena
An online symposium featuring 3,000+ years of writing!
Friday 18th and Saturday 19th September 2026
See here for the full programme and webinar link: journals.wisethorough.com/in…
Recent adventures in calligraphy on the VIEWS blog: viewsproject.wordpress.com/2…
Delighted that the Script Keepers Network has been honoured in the Future Icons of Culture Knowledge Exchange Awards by NCACE, in the Emerging Academic–Cultural Collaboration Award category.
A collaboration with @EAlphabets !
Read more here:
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New on the VIEWS blog!
An interview by Juan Casco with Kenichi Suzuki about his Mayan font project: viewsproject.wordpress.com/2…
The first named Mayan mathematician, just discovered!
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In case anyone is interested in my directionality research, here is the paper I gave at the recent Grapholinguistics in the 21st Century conference in Reading:
youtu.be/jeMAj0gsNYY?si=6rAE…
My friend Alice Mazzilli, a member of the wider VIEWS and Endangered Writing Research Network, is featured in this podcast about writing ✍️
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Seminar today! 16.30 BST (UTC+1)
Vincent Morel:
Inscribing Territoriality: Graffiti and the Politics of Visibility in Egypt’s Eastern Desert
cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/re…
Today! 10th June, 16.30 BST (online only)
Sveva Elti di Rodeano
Phrygian and the Spread of the Alphabet
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Seminar today!
Jeiran Jahani: Pluriverse of animals in lexical lists of the Late Uruk period
cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/re…
This Wednesday 20th May, 16.30 BST (UTC+1), listen to our first summer seminar:
Piers Kelly
"The origins and evolution of writing: a very brief synthesis"
cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/re…
10 years since I joined Twitter with the CREWS project account!
#MyXAnniversary
Delighted to be featured in this spotlight with Mar Shiprim - with content about me, about what we're doing with VIEWS and about where cuneiform fits in with our bigger picture!
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Happening today, please join us!! We'll be talking about writing as embodied action, epistemology, rhythm and more 🕺
Join Alice Mazzilli, Pule kaJanolintji, Helen Magowan and Pippa on Thursday 30th April, 19.00-21.00 BST, for a discussion of Writing As Rhythm. We will be reprising topics that featured in the panel discussion at the start of our recent Jamigraphy event.
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Today is World Tibetan Calligraphy Day, chosen to fall on 30th April because of the four vowels and 30 letters of the Tibetan script.
To celebrate, have a look at this post by Esteban Kong on his ongoing work to develop a VR app for Tibetan calligraphy.
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I am co-editing a special issue of Epigraphy Graffiti Iconography on the theme "Writing, place-making and architecture".
More information and CFP here:
journals.wisethorough.com/in…
All scripts, areas, periods welcome, from ancient to modern.
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Have you noticed we've been releasing a lot of videos recently? We'll make a big announcement about them soonish, but in the meantime you can get instant access as we release them - just check out our YouTube (please follow if you like our content!):
youtube.com/channel/UCxj3mZL…
