The Wor(l)ds of Linear A

A three-day conference

on the 'Minoan' Linear A script of the Bronze Age Aegean

This conference brings together for the first time scholars working on Linear A across a broad range of subject areas to assess our current understanding of Linear A. The conference aims to explore a wide variety of aspects, relating (but by no means restricted) to administrative and writing systems, linguistic analysis, script and palaeography, pinacology and epigraphy, archaeological record and socio-historical setting.

The theme invites an ‘integrated’ dialogue between different disciplinary perspectives in order to elucidate the complex subject of Linear A research in the broadest possible sense, and seeks to provide an overview of aims, problems and possible lines of inquiry. Methodological considerations and interdisciplinary approaches are also explored, in order to foster interdisciplinary discussion and develop a theoretical framework for understanding the intertwined facets of Linear A writing and administrative systems (words), and the socio-cultural systems which produced the documents (worlds).

By pinpointing analytical problems we currently face when investigating all aspects of the wor(l)ds of Linear A and by outlining new promising pathways, the goal of the conference is to revive the distinctive character of Linear A research, and integrate as best we can different disciplinary perspectives to break free of sometime restrictive disciplinary boundaries.

The goal of this conference is to revive

the distinctive character of Linear A research

and integrate different disciplinary perspectives

to break free of disciplinary boundaries