SELECTED LECTURES | Egyptian Script and its classifiers : last ten years.
↝ January 2007: Invited lecture: ‘La sémiologie de l'écriture égyptienne.’ In: Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Paris.
↝January-February 2007 - Invited lecture series: ‘quatre leçons.’ Collège de France, Paris. L´archéologie de la pensée égyptienne: Classification et categories des Anciens Egyptiens:
- Introduction: Pourqoi les déterminatifs sont–ils de signes classificateurs?
- Les animaux dans la pensée égyptienne – une catégorie dissimulée
- La catégorie du dieu Seth – de la maladie au pouvoir
- La catégorie du [DIVIN] et la naissance du monothéisme en Egypte ancienne
↝ June 2007: Invited Lecture: ‘The Most Ancient Lexical List in Egypt.’ In: Workshop: The Role of Writing: Organizing the World of Knowledge: Lexical Classifications in a Cross-Cultural Perspective, Institut für Orientalistik, University of Vienna.
↝ September 2008: Lecture: (with Colette Grinevald, Université de Lyon). ‘Are 'Determinatives' Actual 'Classifiers'? A Case Study in a Multidimensional Approach of the Egyptian “Determinatives”.’ In: University of Canterbury, Kent.
↝ October 2008: Lecture: (with Colette Grinevald, Université de Lyon and Danièle Dubois, CNRS). ‘Formes linguistiques et catégories sémantiques: ‘Le cas des hieroglyphs classificateurs de l'écriture égyptienne.’ In: ACI, Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris VI, Paris.
↝ February 2009: Invited lecture: ‘The Archaeology of the Ancient Egyptian Mind.’ Harvard University, Boston.
↝ March 2009: Lecture: ‘The Life Story of the Ancient Egyptian Classifier System - The Birth of the System.’ In: Workshop: The Diachrony of Classification Systems. NIAS, Wassenaar.
↝ May 2009: Lecture: ‘Iconicity in Egyptian Hieroglyphs.’ In: Workshop: Iconology, Iconicity and Classification, University of Münster.
↝ December 2009: Invited Lecture: ‘Setting Expectations – A Discourse-Role of Classifiers in the Hieroglyphic Script.’ In: Conference: Lexical Semantics in Ancient Egyptian, Liege.
↝ May 2010: Lecture: (with Colette Grinevald, Université de Lyon). ‘Written and Spoken Classifiers in a Typological Perspective.’ In: Conference: Categorization, Human Experience, Classification, École pratique des hautes études, Paris, France.
↝ June 2010: Invited public lecture: ‘A Media Revolution Born in the Desert: The Invention of the Alphabet.’ The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
↝ May 2011: Lecture: ‘The Dream of Haremhab.’ In: Symposium on: Haremhab: General and King of Egypt, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
↝ April 2012: Lecture: ‘What are Determinatives Good for?.’ In: American Research Center in Egypt Annual Meeting, Providence.
↝ November 2012: Lecture: (with Colette Grinevald). ‘Graphemic Classification vs. Morphemic Classification.’ In: Dynamique du Langage (DDL), Université Lyon 2. Lyon.
↝ February 2013: Lecture: ‘A Proof for Covert Categories in the Human Mind.’ École normale supérieure - COLLEGIUM DE LYON, Lyon.
↝ June 2013: Invited lecture: ‘Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs as a Window into the Mind.’ The Edmund & Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences- Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation Seminar, Edmund J. Safra Campus, Jerusalem.
↝ January 2014: Lecture: ‘At the Crossroad of Gender and Classifier in Ancient Egyptian -1st Person Case.’ In: Workshop: Gender and Classifiers - Cross-Linguistic Perspectives, University of Surrey.
↝ May 2014: Invited lecture: (with Henri Brice): ‘Hieroglyphs and the Brain: Cognitive Processes in Hieroglyphic Readings.’ In: Peirce, Hieroglyphs, and Multimodality, Humboldt Universität, Berlin.
↝ September 2014: Lecture: ‘The Role of Objects in the Invention of the Alphabet: A View from the Museum.’ In: Department of Egyptian Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
↝ November 2014: Invited lecture: ‘”What is a Horse?”: From Umberto Eco to Hieroglyphs.’ In: Frühe Konzepte von Mensch und Natur: Universalität, Spezifität, Tradierung, Ägyptologie, Institut für Altertumswissenschaften, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität. Mainz.
↝ April 2015, Invited lecture: ‘Akhenaton and the Origin of Monotheistic Tendencies in Egypt.’ In: Maimonides Lectures. Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna.
↝ February 2016, Berlin. Selz, G., O. Goldwasser and C. Grinevald. ‘The Question of Sumerian Determinatives: Inventory, Classifier Analysis, and Comparison to Egyptian Classifiers.’ In: Proceedings of the Conference ‘Crossroads: Whence and Whither?’ 17-20 February, 2016. Berlin.
↝ July 2016, Basel. 'Iconicity vs. Liniarity. The Advantage of a System without Systematicity.' In: The Idea of Writing, Writing as a System: Emergence, Variation, Performance’. NCCR Eikones, University of Basel.
↝ October 2016, Animal Classification in Ancient Near Eastern Scripts: Hieroglyphs, Cuneiform, and Luwian Hieroglyphs. Yale University.
↝ O. Goldwasser and A. Payne. XXXX..