Visual Interactions in Early Writing Systems (VIEWS) is a UKRI Frontier Research Grant, no. EP/X028240/1, based at Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge.
Cambridge, England
Joined May 2016
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The VIEWS project is based at Cambridge and run by PI Dr Pippa Steele (she/her). We are conducting new research on visual aspects of writing systems in the pre-modern world and examining relationships between writing and visual culture.
Visit our website: viewsproject.wordpress.com/
Join us on Wednesday 28th October, 4.30pm GMT (Room 1.11, Cambridge Faculty of Classics and online) for our next seminar:
Chunfeng Zhang: When Dongba Writing Meets Chinese: How a Writing System Adapts to a New Language
Zoom registration: cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/reβ¦
Hot off the press, our VIEWS autumn seminars - with hybrid papers on Nsibidi and Dongba (plus Mycenaean and Cypriot writing but in person only).
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Join us for a special VIEWS/EWRN event:
Monday 28th September
19.30 BST
Korede Aderele
βA Computational Approach to Yoruba Symbolic Systems: Interpreting Door Panels as an Extension of Oral Historyβ
Zoom registration: cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/reβ¦
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Writing and Pseudo-Scripts: Architectural contexts and script-image phenomena
An online symposium featuring 3,000+ years of writing!
Friday 18th and Saturday 19th September 2026
See here for the full programme and webinar link: journals.wisethorough.com/inβ¦
Recent adventures in calligraphy on the VIEWS blog: viewsproject.wordpress.com/2β¦
Delighted that the Script Keepers Network has been honoured in the Future Icons of Culture Knowledge Exchange Awards by NCACE, in the Emerging AcademicβCultural Collaboration Award category.
A collaboration with @EAlphabets !
Read more here:
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New on the VIEWS blog!
An interview by Juan Casco with Kenichi Suzuki about his Mayan font project: viewsproject.wordpress.com/2β¦
The first named Mayan mathematician, just discovered!
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In case anyone is interested in my directionality research, here is the paper I gave at the recent Grapholinguistics in the 21st Century conference in Reading:
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My friend Alice Mazzilli, a member of the wider VIEWS and Endangered Writing Research Network, is featured in this podcast about writing βοΈ
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Seminar today! 16.30 BST (UTC+1)
Vincent Morel:
Inscribing Territoriality: Graffiti and the Politics of Visibility in Egyptβs Eastern Desert
cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/reβ¦
Today! 10th June, 16.30 BST (online only)
Sveva Elti di Rodeano
Phrygian and the Spread of the Alphabet
cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/reβ¦
Seminar today!
Jeiran Jahani: Pluriverse of animals in lexical lists of the Late Uruk period
cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/reβ¦
This Wednesday 20th May, 16.30 BST (UTC+1), listen to our first summer seminar:
Piers Kelly
"The origins and evolution of writing: a very brief synthesis"
cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/reβ¦
10 years since I joined Twitter with the CREWS project account!
#MyXAnniversary
Delighted to be featured in this spotlight with Mar Shiprim - with content about me, about what we're doing with VIEWS and about where cuneiform fits in with our bigger picture!
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Happening today, please join us!! We'll be talking about writing as embodied action, epistemology, rhythm and more πΊ
Join Alice Mazzilli, Pule kaJanolintji, Helen Magowan and Pippa on Thursday 30th April, 19.00-21.00 BST, for a discussion of Writing As Rhythm. We will be reprising topics that featured in the panel discussion at the start of our recent Jamigraphy event.
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Today is World Tibetan Calligraphy Day, chosen to fall on 30th April because of the four vowels and 30 letters of the Tibetan script.
To celebrate, have a look at this post by Esteban Kong on his ongoing work to develop a VR app for Tibetan calligraphy.
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