Specialised Theme 1

The History of Writing Practices and Scribal Culture

9 AM-12:15 PM

Shandong High Speed Hall, Shandong Hotel

Organizer: Martyn Lyons (University of New South Wales, Australia)

With the support of the Australian Historical Association

Discussant: Rita Marquilhas (Lisbon University)

- Germaine Warkentin (University of Toronto):

Writing without the Alphabet: A New Typology of Writing Systems

- Duncan Campbell (Australian National University):

Liu E’s Diaries: The World of a Late Qing Collector

- Francis Joannès (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne):

The Babylonian scribes and their Libraries

- Antonella Ghignoli (La Sapienza University of Rome):

Scripts and Signs in Documents of Early Medieval Europe: Origins, Transmission, Functions

- John Gagné (University of Sydney, Australia):

Paper World: The Materiality of Loss in the Premodern Age

- Arianne Baggerman (Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, Netherlands):

The changing perception of time and the development of auto-biographical writing in the Netherlands in the 18th and early 19th centuries.

- Anna Kuismin (University of Helsinki, Finland):

Generic sources of life writing ‘from below’ in 19th-century Finland

- Martyn Lyons (University of New South Wales, Australia):

World War One and the Explosion of Popular Writing in Europe, c.1860-1920