Egyptologist / Assyriologist Uzume Wijnsma will talk about the relationship between writing and power from her own research period with a parallel to the present: the Persian Empire knew a vast amount of languages and scripts, with various functions. For example, the Persians (founders of the first world empire, 539-330 BC) began the tradition of trilingual inscriptions to indicate the variety of their peoples: a powershow in ancient times, in which script was used as a symbol of domination.
