> Saturday 15 December 2018 11h
Arabic typography: from calamus to the digital age
The round table will address typographic design issues related to Arabic writing, language and culture, its contemporary uses, its graphic and typographical issues and its perspectives.
With Marco Maione, graphic-typographer and designer, Roberto Hamm, graphic-typographer and Fanny Gillet, PhD student at the University of Geneva, founding member of the Research Group on Visual Arts in the Muslim Worlds
> Saturday 15 December 2018 14h
Origin and expansion of the Arabic language
With Catherine Miller, researcher in linguistic anthropology, research director at the CNRS
> Saturday 15 December 2018 16h30
Arabic, language of modern communication
With Nada Yafi, former diplomat, translator and Yves Gonzalez-Quijano, academic, translator, host of the blog Arab culture and politics.
> Sunday 16 December 14:30
Family workshop: the words travelers
Scientific and commercial exchanges, the multiple spice and silk roads also made words travel. The young participants discover in turn the Arabic words entered in the French language and the French words entered in the Arabic language. A game board, «Les mots des voyageurs», allows them to learn while having fun.
Duration: 2h
8-12 years