Graphemics in the 21st century—From graphemes to knowledge

/gʁafematik/ 2018 is the first conference bringing together disciplines concerned with writing systems and their representation in written communication. The conference, organized by IMT Atlantique and CNRS UMR 6285 Lab-STICC, will be held at Pôle numérique Brest Iroise at Brest, France, on June 14-15, 2018.

Registration is open here

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

• DAY ONE: JUNE 14, 2018
• MORNING
• KEYNOTE: Florian Coulmas. The Best Writing System of the World
• Marc Wilhelm Küster. Open and Closed Writing Systems—Some Reflections
• Yifan Wang. “Latin Script” Revisited: Issues on Identification of a Script
• Martin Raymond. ScriptSource: Documenting the Writing Systems of the World
• David Březina. Character Similarity and Coherence in Typeface Design
• AFTERNOON
• Joseph Dichy and Yannis Haralambous. Inclusive Writing
• Kamal Mansour. On the Origins of Arabic Script
• Joseph Dichy. The Writing System of Arabic: An Analytic Approach
• Kavya Manohar and Santhosh Thottingal. Malayalam Orthographic Reforms: Impact on Language and Popular Culture
• Tereza Slaměníková. On the Nature of Unmotivated Constituents in Modern Chinese Characters
• Keisuke Honda. What Do Kanji Graphs Represent in the Japanese Writing System? An Examination of the Morphographic and Morphophonic Theories of Kanji Writing
• Cornelia Schindelin. The Li-Variation: When the Ancient Chinese Writing changed to Modern Chinese Script
• DAY TWO: JUNE 15, 2018
• MORNING
• KEYNOTE: Christa Dürscheid. Image, Writing, Unicode
• Yannis Haralambous. A Roadmap to Graphemics
• Martin J. Dürst. Are There Any Limits to Text Encoding?
• Vlad Atanasiu. Ugraphia: The Utopia of an Perfectly Legible Script
• Martin Evertz. The History of the Graphematic Foot in English and German
• AFTERNOON
• Patricia Thaine and Gerald Penn. Vowel and Consonant Classification Through Spectral Decomposition
• Nicolas Ballier, Erin Pacquetet and Taylor Arnold. Investigating Keylogs as Time-Stamped Graphemes
• Sveva Elti di Rodeano. Digraphia: The Story of a Sociolinguistic Typology
• Ray Stegeman. Graphemic Choices in Writing Papua New Guinean Languages Through the Years
• David Roberts, Valentin Vydrin and Dana Basnight-Brown. Marking Tone With Punctuation: An Orthography Experiment in Eastern Dan (Côte d'Ivoire)