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18 Ott 2025 09:30

THE DISCORDANT DETAIL: Exploring Sophisticated Interactions Between Scripts and the Visual [...]

Tesa 1, Ca’ Foscari Zattere, 1392

THE DISCORDANT DETAIL
Exploring Sophisticated Interactions Between Scripts and the Visual Arts in Antiquity

PROGRAMME

OCTOBER 15, 14.00-19.00
Aula Berengo, Ca’ Foscari - Dorsoduro 3246, Venice
14.00 - 14.30 Arrival & Registration
14.30 - 15.00 Welcome & Context Setting
Alessandra Gilibert, Massimo Maiocchi (Ca’ Foscari University Venice)
15.00 - 16.30 Getting to Know Each Other
16.30 - 17.00 Coffee Break
17.00 - 19.00 “Chants of Sennaar” & Multimodal Communication

OCTOBER 16, 9.15-17.45
Aula Berengo, Ca’ Foscari - Dorsoduro 3246, Venice
9.15 - 9.30 Opening Remarks

MORNING SPEAKER SESSION
Discussants: Alessandra Gilibert, Massimo Maiocchi
9.30 - 10.10 Massimo Maiocchi
Introduction & Morning Quiz
10.10 - 10.50 Gordon Whittaker (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen), Animating Aztec hieroglyphs: A Mesoamerican interplay between writing and iconography
10.50 - 11.30 coffee break
11.30 - 12.10 Martin Worthington (Trinity College Dublin), Cuneiform and pictures, early and late
12.10 - 14.00 lunch break

EARLY AFTERNOON SESSION
Discussants: Francesca Iannarilli (Ca’ Foscari University Venice), Emanuele Ciampini (Università La Sapienza, Rome)
14.00 - 14.40 Ludwig D. Morenz (Universität Bonn), A proto- pyramid text and its metahieroglyphic mythogram. Rereading an inscription on an Egyptian architrave of the Vth dynasty (2400 BC)
14.40 - 15.20 David Klotz (Boston), Ludic figurations of ancient Egyptian names—divine and human—in sculpture and other monuments
15.20-15.40 coffee break

LATE AFTERNOON SPEAKER SESSION
Discussants: Ylia Yakubovich (Philipps-Universität Marburg)
15.40 - 16.20 Kathryn Kelly (Uppsala University), The belly of the Anzu-beast. Origins, fates, and infinities
16.20 - 17.15 What Is Writing After All? (Response to Massimo’s Morning Quiz)
17.15 - 17.45 Discordant Truth Student Detective Challenge

OCTOBER 17, 9.00-14.00
Venice Urban Exploration with Francesco Pozzato

OCTOBER 18, 9.30-12.00
Tesa 1, Ca’ Foscari Zattere, 1392
9.30-12.00 Collaborative Synthesis

The College Workshops are organized under the aegis of ASSI (Alleanza delle Scuole Superiori di Ateneo) and with the financial support of DM MUR 231/2023

Organizzatore

Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici; Collegio Internazionale Ca' Foscari; ASSI (Alleanza delle Scuole Superiori di Ateneo)

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