Graphemics in the 21st Century Conference

[graphematik image]The Unicode Consortium is pleased to announce a
conference that may be of interest to our user community.

/gʁafematik/ 2018 is the first conference bringing together disciplines
concerned with writing systems and their representation in written
communication. The conference aims to reflect on the current state of
research in the area, and on the role that writing and writing systems
play in neighboring disciplines like computer science and information
technology, communication, typography, psychology, and pedagogy. In
particular it aims to study the effect of the growing importance of
Unicode with regard to the future of reading and writing in human
societies. Reflecting the richness of perspectives on writing systems,
/gʁafematik/ is actively interdisciplinary, and welcomes proposals from
researchers from the fields of computer science and information
technology, linguistics, communication, pedagogy, psychology, history,
and the social sciences.

/gʁafematik/ aims to create a space for the discussion of the range of
approaches to writing systems, and specifically to bridge approaches in
linguistics, informatics, and other fields. It will provide a forum for
explorations in terminology, methodology, and theoretical approaches
relating to the delineation of an emerging interdisciplinary area of
research that intersects with intense activity in practical
implementations of writing systems.

The conference will be held at IMT Atlantique (formerly Télécom
Bretagne) at Brest, France, on June 14-16, 2018.

Topics will include:

    * Epistemology of graphemics: history, onomastics, topics,
      interaction with other disciplines
    * Foundations of graphemics
    * History and typology of writing systems, comparative graphemics
    * Semiotics of writing and of writing systems
    * Computational/formal graphemics
    * Graphemic theory of Unicode encoding

For more information, please consult:

http://conferences.telecom-bretagne.eu/grafematik/

https://twitter.com/grafematik2018e

http://blog.unicode.org/2017/10/graphemics-in-21st-century-conference.html

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