World Endangered Writing Day 2026 Schedule
January 23, 2026
The Schedule of Live Events
| Time (UTC+0/GMT) | Event |
|---|---|
| 10:00 a.m. |
Pippa Steele Studying Endangered, Minoritised and Emergent Scripts: A Personal Journey |
| 10:30 a.m. |
Writing and Linguistic Identity Panel (chair: Pippa Steele) Peter Constantine From Linear A to Now: In Search of an Alphabet — or Syllabograms? Or Logograms? — for an Endangered Language of Greece Mohamed Pujeh Writing Concepts, Not Just Sounds: Reviving Mende Through the Kikaku Script |
| 11:30 a.m. |
Sign and Symbol Research Centre, University of Warsaw Life of a script: a specialist panel discussing snapshots from the life of writing systems, from the most ancient Egyptian to the extramodern Japanese |
| 1:30 p.m. | Showcase (selected video content) |
| 2:00 p.m. |
Typography and Minority Scripts Panel (chair: Pippa Steele) Adam Yeo Typography, Digital Inclusion, and the Preservation of Minority Scripts: The Bété Case Study Ariq Syauqi Understanding layered challenges for writing minority scripts digitally |
| 3:00 p.m. |
Script Keepers Network Panel (chair: Tim Brookes) Featuring Roland Huse, Iris Auda and Kambai Akau |
| 4:00 p.m. | Showcase (selected video content) |
| 4:30 p.m. | Tim Brookes Handwriting as an Endangered Art |
| 5:30 p.m. |
Yanru Xu Between Images and Writing: The Pictorial Features of Dongba Script |
| 6:00 p.m. |
Where Is Writing Going? Concluding session hosted by Tim Brookes and Amalia Gnanadesikan |