We are excited to announce our autumn termcard of hybrid seminars, with three events coming up. The topics include Anatolian Hieroglyphs, Linear A and B, Greek alphabetic education and European and Japanese heraldry. You can find the details, zoom registration link and poster below. VIEWS Autumn Seminars 2025 Selected Wednesdays, 16.30-18.00 UK time In person: … Continue reading VIEWS Autumn Seminars 2025| The VIEWS project
Last week I spent a lovely evening at a special event (Make Your Mark) celebrating the work of 18th century type pioneer John Baskerville, immortalised in the font that still bears his name. It was run as part of the Small Performances project shared between Birmingham City University and the University of Cambridge, which is … Continue reading The Foundry of the Baskervilles| The VIEWS project
This post is by Yanru Xu, who joins the VIEWS team as a research associate at the beginning of October. You can also read this post as a PDF by clicking HERE. Apart from Chinese scripts, numerous o…| The VIEWS project
In an era when languages are disappearing at an alarming rate, even with advancements in technology and digital documentation, the threat to the growth and development of languages is more pressing…| The VIEWS project
WAVE 2 26th-29th March 2026, Cambridge Following last year’s successful first conference, Writing As Visual Experience (WAVE), we are excited to announce the Call For Papers for our second conferen…| The VIEWS project
Aaron Koller, Yeshiva University; Cook-Crone Research Bye-Fellow at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, 2022-23 VIEWS Visiting Fellow throughout the 2022-23 academic year Aaron is working on the…| The VIEWS project
Please note that this competition is now closed, and what follows is retained for information only. Please check back or sign up for VIEWS updates to hear news of future competitions. Introduction …| The VIEWS project
THE CORE VIEWS TEAM Principal Investigator: Pippa Steele Pippa is a Senior Research Associate at the Cambridge Faculty of Classics, and Senior Research Fellow at Magdalene College. She has previous…| The VIEWS project
I’m sorry it’s been a while since our last update. Far from an indication that nothing much is happening here, the main reason is that I have been so busy that it has been hard to find …| The VIEWS project
It has been a busy time at the VIEWS project, with many visitors and events. We will tell you much more very soon, but in the meantime I want to use this short post to tell you the exciting news th…| The VIEWS project
Why did we start the project? བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། Tashi Delek! My name is Esteban Kong, and I have been part of the Costa Rican Tibetan Cultural Association for over 8 years. After experiencing Tibet…| The VIEWS project
This post has been a long time coming! Joshua Fitzgerald (VIEWS Visiting Fellow 2024–2025) very kindly coordinated a visit to the storage facility of Cambridge’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (MAA) early last December to examine the Maudslay collection of Maya monument casts. He was joined by Jordan Miller, a VIEWS Research Associate working on … Continue reading Visual Interactions with Maya Plaster Casts| The VIEWS project
We are delighted to announce that our next conference, WAVE 2: Writing As Visual Engagement, will take place on 26th-29th March 2026 in Cambridge. For further details, look at our Call For Papers H…| The VIEWS project
We have an exciting programme of hybrid seminars in the coming term (May-June 2025), with sessions by VIEWS researchers, visiting fellows and friends. The seminars will be held in person, beginning at 16.30 BST (with tea from 16.15) and ending at 18.00 BST, in Room 1.11, Faculty of Classics, Cambridge. You can also watch online … Continue reading Easter Term Seminars 2025| The VIEWS project
It’s nearly here – 23rd January every year is World Endangered Writing Day, a day dedicated to the world’s diverse writing systems and celebrating the work being done to protect t…| The VIEWS project
