Conference by Mr. Jean WINAND: Hieroglyphs: A Language and a Writing System Like Any Other?
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As part of the UTLA conferences: Jean WINAND: Hieroglyphs: A Language and a Writing System Like Any Other? Doctor in Oriental Languages and Literatures, Jean WINAND is a full professor at the University of Liège where he was also Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters and vice-rector. He also teaches at the Free University of Brussels. His research areas mainly cover the language and philology of ancient Egypt, as well as the literature and history of ideas. He is a member of the Royal Academy of Belgium. Hieroglyphs: A Language and a Writing System Like Any Other? Hieroglyphic writing combines three categories of signs: logograms, phonograms, and semantic classifiers. One of its unique features is having maintained throughout its history a strong link with its original iconic dimension. The history of this writing system reveals a dual tension between a phonetic pole, which could have led to the creation of an alphabet, and an iconic pole, which will lead during the Greco-Roman period to a symbolic interpretation, prevailing from the Renaissance through the second half of the 18th century.
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Conference on 23/1/2025 from 14:30 to 16:00, Eugène Ysaÿe Hall, Place des Chasseurs ardennais in 6700 ARLON
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Administration communale d'Arlon
Rue Paul Reuter 8
6700 Arlon
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