Lectures

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:

  1. Introduction: Pourqoi les déterminatifs sont–ils de signes classificateurs?
  2. Les animaux dans la pensée égyptienne – une catégorie dissimulée
  3. La catégorie du dieu Seth – de la maladie au pouvoir
  4. 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..

The Archaeology of The Mind Lab studies how different cultures, past
and present, organize knowledge about the world.


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Our sources are classifier systems that appear in both written and oral languages around the world.

Classifiers, which arrange the lexicon into various emic categories,
have never been scrutinized systematically for the study of knowledge organization.

 

classifier map semitic loanwords

Classifier network of lexical borrowing from Semitic in New Kingdom texts
(Created by Haleli Harel, ISF grant 735/17 "Classifying the Other")

 

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