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[gallery size="large" ids="381,326,312,382,400,385,387,386,388,384,370,401"]The public program for the last three days of our Winter Academy:Friday, September 1111.30-1pm: Panel Discussion 5History, Archive and Language Politics in AfricaChair: Shamil Jeppie (UCT)Carolyn Hamilton (UCT) “Reading the James Stuart Archive of Recorded Oral Evidence and its Textual Offspring”Mathias Brenzinger (UCT) “Language Archives: Prospects and Limitations in the Documentation of Oral Languages”&#160;2-3.30pm: LectureAbdulkader Tayob (UCT), “Between Text and Culture in the Teaching of Religion in South Africa”Chair: Georges Khalil (Forum Transregionale Studien) Saturday, September 1211.30-1am: Panel Discussion 6The European Discovery of WritingChair: Pascale Rabault-Feuerhahn (CNRS Paris)Adrien Delmas(Institut Français d’Afrique du Sud), “Portuguese Encounters with African Written Cultures in the 16th century”Elisabetta Benigni (University of Turin), “‘Engraved Marble and Lost Scripts’”: Discussing Arabic Epigraphs in 18th and 19th century Italy”Federico Navarrete Linares (Universidad Autónoma de México), “‘There Are Many Ways to Read a Drawing’: the European Interpretation of Pictographical Writing”&#160;2-3.30pm  Film and LectureMichael Allan (University of Oregon), “Picturing Philology: Early Cinema and Worldly Scripts”&#160;Sunday, September 139.30-11am:  Panel Discussion 7Script Reform and Invention from a Global Comparative PerspectiveChair: Shamil Jeppie (UCT)Erdem Aydin (Boğaziçi University, Istanbul), “Script Reform in Turkey”Thomas Mullaney (Stanford University), “Beyond “Romanization”: The Case of the Chinese Transalphabet”Piers Kelly (Australian National University), “Why Some New Scripts Fail and Others Succeed”