Scripta 2016: Tangut and Other Asian Scripts

Conference date: October 8, 2016

Venue: Seoul National University. Seoul, Korea

Day 1 (October 8, Saturday)
09:30-09:50 Registration (Gwanjeong Library Yangduseok Hall)
09:50-10:00 Opening Ceremony (Gwanjeong Library Yangduseok Hall)
Moderator: HWANG Seonyeop (Seoul National Univ., Korea)
Welcome Address: HAN Jaeyoung (President, the Hunmin jeongeum Society)

Session I (10:00-12:00)
Moderator: PARK Seegyoon (Kunsan National Univ., Korea)

10:00-11:00 ARAKAWA Shintaro (Tokyo Univ. of Foreign Studies, Japan)
Tangut Script – Studies of the unique features

11:00-12:00 KAWASAKI Keigo (Soongsil Univ., Korea)
A suggestion for encoding Tangut glyphs – Reporting the development of “Tangut Cangjie Input Method” –

12:00-13:30 Lunch (Jahayeon)

Session II (13:30-17:00)
Moderator: PARK Hansang (Hongik Univ., Korea)

13:30-14:30 GONG Xun (Centre de Recherches Linguistiques sur l’Asie Orientale / INALCO, France)
Verb stems in Tangut and their orthography

14:30-15:30 JUHA Janhunen and Ekaterina Gruzdeva (Univ. of Helsinki, Finland)
Bringing the orthography of an indigenous language to the digital age: The case of Nivkh in the Russian Far
East

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-17:00 HAN Kyungho (Korea National Open Univ., Korea)
A Study on sound changes of Old Chinese You group (幽部) and Jue group (覺部) letters in Chu Bamboo slips

17:30-20:00 Reception (Sodam Maru)

Day 2 (October 9th, Sunday) ~ Day 3 (October 10th, Monday)
Academic Tour to Gyeongju City