John Baines’ SCRIBO Seminar, 8 July 2020 - Rapid development of writing in China

"SCRIBO: Seminars on Scripts in Bologna" is a series broadcast live via streaming with Guest Speakers from all over the world, who talk about the invention of writing, the relationship between scripts and icons, and current progress in the understanding of undeciphered scripts. Its scope is enriched by contributions from fields such as archaeology, anthropology, linguistics, cognitive studies, and semiotics.

SCRIBO is sponsored by the INSCRIBE (Invention of Scripts and their Beginnings) ERC Project (https://site.unibo.it/inscribe/en/eve...) and is held at the Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies (FICLIT) at the University of Bologna.