Videos of the presentations from "Writing as an event and a process: Ancient and Medieval scribes at work. International Conference 10-12 September 2025, Basel University"

Videos of the presentations from "Writing as an event and a process: Ancient and Medieval scribes at work. International Conference 10-12 September 2025, Basel University"

1. Michael Freeman (Texas Tech University): Embodied Knowledge in Ancient Mediterranean Scribal Practices

3. Giacomo Cardinali (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana): CVs, schedules, salaries and housing: the living and working conditions of Latin and Greek copyists in Renaissance Rome

 

5. Lorelei Vanderheyden (Universität Heidelberg): Mapping materials. Surveying possible local trends in Egypt through Coptic correspondence

7. Floriane Goy (University of Geneva): Scriptural Evolution in the Latin Middle Ages: the Dissemination of Gothic Script 

9. Miruna Belea (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes): Ki yesh biyado Qabbalah: the importance of the ductus in medieval substitutes for the Tetragrammaton 

11. Judith Olszowy-Schlanger (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes/University of Oxford): Following the path of the Sephardic cursive

13. Ðình Dũng Văn, Pedro Garcia-Baro and Olga Serbaeva (Universität Basel): EGRAPSA project: How to investigate the evolution of Greek handwriting on papyri?

2. Jean-Luc Fournet (Collège de France): At the school of writing professionals

 

4. Paul Schubert (University of Geneva): An Egyptian scribe in Graeco-Roman Egypt facing his roll of papyrus: how to proceed?

6. Marc Smith (Ecole Nationale des Chartes): Production vs perception in the history of (Roman) letterforms

8. Peter Stokes (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes): Cursivity as Practice and Process in Early Medieval England

10. Evgeniya Zarubina (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes): Revealing the Ductus: invisible lines and transitionary letters in medieval Hebrew manuscripts 

12. Fabian Wespi (Universität Heidelberg): Demotic writing in action: capturing the pulse of ancient scribes

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