Monday 25 June 2012
9:15	Registration
9:45	Opening of the  Symposium: Konstantin Pozdniakov
Morning session (Chair: Wolfgang Behr) : Linguistic and Anthropological Aspects of Naming
10:00	Mark Van de Velde	Agreement as a grammatical criterion for Proper Name status in Kirundi
10:45	Jean-Louis Vaxelaire	De la prépondérance de l’écrit
11:30	Coffee break
11:45	Mat Pires	Letter names: writing systems, variation, and function
12:30	Lunch
Afternoon session (Chair: Alex de Voogt) : Specific Practices in Writing Names
14:00	Wolfgang Behr	The structure, distribution and naming properties of Early Chinese ‘clan signs’: an attempt at an overview
14:45	Christopher Woods	The Writings of Some Sumerian Toponyms: Their Emblematic and Semantic Origins
15:30	Coffee break
15:45	Philippe Cassuto	Noms propres ou noms communs dans les inscriptions ouest-sémitiques
16:30	Erik Boot	Maya Personal Name Glyphs: In Writing and Iconography
20:00	dinner
Thuesday 26 June 2012
Morning session (Chair: Pascal Vernus) : Abbreviation, Reduction, Tabooization
10:00	Françoise Bottéro	Tabooed names in ancient China
10:45	Kyra V.J. van der Moezel	Abbreviating names in ancient Egypt
11:30	Coffee break
11:45	Sven Osterkamp	Names reduced to writing & writing reducing names – Being some observations on early Japanese place name spellings
12:30	Lunch
Afternoon session 1 (Chair: Sven Osterkamp) : Writing Names in Contexts of Cultural, Linguistic, and Graphic Contacts
14:00	Roman Shapiro	Writing names in Chinese translations of Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls
14:45	Thorsten Traulsen	Chinese Characters Coined in Korea for Writing Names
15:30	Coffee break
Afternoon session 2 (Chair: Christopher Woods) : Writing Names and Processes of Cultural Change
15:45	Pascal Vernus	Writing names in Ancient Egypt
16:30	Alex de Voogt	Names as witness to a script in decline
Wednesday 27 June 2012
Morning session (Chair: Erik Boot) : Naming in recent and non-deciphered writing systems
10:00	Andrij Rovenchak	Writing in Indigenous African Scripts: from Satzschrift to Alphabet
10:45	Konstantin Pozdniakov	Looking for proper names in the Rapanui script
11:30	Coffee break
11:45	Final round table. The Idea of Writing: perspectives - Moderator: Alex de Voogt
12:45	Closing of the Symposium