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International Conference on "East Asia: Scripts and Culture”

10/09/2015

The international conference on “East Asia: Scripts and Culture" (東亞文字與文化) is held by Vietnam Institute of Sino - Nom Studies (a member unit of Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences) as the organizer, The World Association of Chinese Characters Studies (世界漢字學會) and Center for the Study of Chinese Characters in Korea (韓國漢字研究所) as co-organizers. There is the participation of 46 local and oversea scientists from Vietnam (12), Japan (6), Korea (11), and Hongkong - Taiwan – Mainland China (17). The conference on August 15th has had a great attraction with both local and foreign researchers. This is the 3rd conference for the community of researchers on scripts in East Asia and it is the opportunity to fully expand the scientific collaboration in East Asia and world scripts studies. It is the first time for Vietnam to organize this conference after China and Japan. The conference is expected to be a chance to promote the peaceful, friendly relationship and the collaboration in area.

Prof. Dr. Nguyen Xuan Thang – President of VASS <br>having the welcome remarks at the conference

Prof. Dr. Nguyen Xuan Thang – a member of Central Communist Party, President of VASS is the moderator of the international conference and he has had the opening speech at the conference. He stated that the organization of conference in Vietnam showed the concern of Communist Party, Government and VASS with the study of Sino – Nom in Vietnam specifically and scripts in East Asia. The conference could be considered as the place to gather opinions of leading experts in this field in East Asia, especially for researches on values of types of scripts which have been being used in the area. It is also the chance for exchange issues related to ancient scripts then to create a network for scripter.

Besides the opening ceremony and plenary session, the conference is divided into 11 panels for researchers to present 45 writing papers on the following topics: Scripts Education, Scripts Excavation, Scripts and Society, Scripts and Language, Scripts and modern times, Scripts and Character Sculptures, Structure and Translation of Scripts, Encyclopedia  (character dictionary, dictionary, wikipedia books so on), Scripts discussion (2 sessions), Scripts Reading and Explanation. Research papers discussed about various interesting topics such as past and present, writing documents and materials such as epitaphs, oracle bone script, metal ware etc. With many cross – industrial explanation, most of research papers has pointed out the role of scripts in East Asian culture. The conference focused on the cultural and historic values of types of scripts in East Asia. It also evaluated the relationship between scripts and civilization, scripts and traditional as well as modern East Asia, especially its role in delivering cultural messages via ancient documents.

There are also activities as cultural examination and performance of Caligraphy organized together with conference. 

Please check out the details of conference agenda at http://hannom.org.vn/images_upload/pdf_2437.pdf

 

Dr. Nguyen Tuan Cuong

(Vietnam Institute of Sino – Nom Studies)

Photos: Duong Van Hoan, Nguyen Quang Thang

 



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