VIEWS Project 🌈

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.

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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: https://t.co/0hCq77RVOm

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A presentation I gave for the Cambridge Classical Association last Friday, now watchable on YouTube:

https://t.co/yDPblOlZpX

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https://t.co/BAm68oUYB2

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Join us on Wednesday 28th October, 4.30pm GMT (Room 1.11, Cambridge Faculty of Classics and online) for our next seminar:

Chunfeng Zhang: When Dongba Writing Meets Chinese: How a Writing System Adapts to a New Language

Zoom registration: https://t.co/VV1khVR7eP

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Hot off the press, our VIEWS autumn seminars - with hybrid papers on Nsibidi and Dongba (plus Mycenaean and Cypriot writing but in person only).

https://t.co/lVMqnC0nb0

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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: https://t.co/QgNgGWhWBa

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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: https://t.co/a0GzCyr4Si

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@hhpapazian 😢

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Recent adventures in calligraphy on the VIEWS blog: https://t.co/xwMIW2rGdR

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Read more here:

https://t.co/ZyohigfEew

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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 !

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New on the VIEWS blog!

An interview by Juan Casco with Kenichi Suzuki about his Mayan font project: https://t.co/Z1GagG1Z56

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The first named Mayan mathematician, just discovered!

https://t.co/nlZGdT8l1t

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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:

https://t.co/pOdMlnWuSN

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My friend Alice Mazzilli, a member of the wider VIEWS and Endangered Writing Research Network, is featured in this podcast about writing ✍️

https://t.co/PPux5CBeLM

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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

https://t.co/9hSBkfoHUA

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Today! 10th June, 16.30 BST (online only)

Sveva Elti di Rodeano

Phrygian and the Spread of the Alphabet

https://t.co/9hSBkfoHUA

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Seminar today!

Jeiran Jahani: Pluriverse of animals in lexical lists of the Late Uruk period

https://t.co/9hSBkfoHUA

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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"

https://t.co/9hSBkfoHUA

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10 years since I joined Twitter with the CREWS project account!
#MyXAnniversary