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The next meeting in the seminar series of the Center for Research and Practice in Cultural Continuity “Decolonizing approaches to studying history and linguistic-cultural heritage. Methods, tools, results and challenges” :

will take place on

at 16:45 CET.

The history of studying world’s writing systems has traditionally been based on evolutionary, teleological, and oversystematized models originating in the Western tradition of exploring Old World scripts. As a consequence, various early non-Western writing systems have been classified as pictographic, ideographic, or semasiographic scripts without a closer examination of the inner workings of each writing system. This presentation addresses the issues of writing system typologies with a special focus on Mesoamerican scripts. It also explores the relatively recent Indigenous agency regarding the study and use of native writing systems of the Americas.