Face/Interface 2025
Global Type Design and Human-Computer Interaction
January 17-18, 2025
Stanford + Livestream
Register HERE
Stanford Shuttle info here/Parking Info here
VENUE CHANGE | PLEASE READ
IN-PERSON SOLD OUT/NO WALK-UPS ALLOWED
DIFFERENT VENUES FOR FRI & SAT
Friday, January 17: Bechtel Conference Center @ Encina Hall [location]
Saturday, January 18: Stanford Humanities Center [location]
VIRTUAL REGISTRATION STILL OPEN
Virtual Attendees register here
Schedule (Subject to Change)
DAY ONE
FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 2025
BECHTEL CONFERENCE CENTER
8:15-9:00: REGISTRATION & COFFEE
9:00-9:30
Thomas S. Mullaney, Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:30-11:00
Bridget Chase, Typotheque Indigenous North American Type Research
Rafael Dietzsch, The Typography of Brazilian Indigenous Languages: Encodings, Fonts and Keyboards
Manuel López Rocha, Type Design for Mixe Language: Contemporary Tools and an Ancient Script Revival [remote]
11:00-11:15: COFFEE BREAK
11:15-1:15
Leonardo Vazquez, Wikitype: Collaborative, Multilingual, Classification System
Lisa Huang, Words of Type, and Building a Multilingual Encyclopedia for Typography
Tex Texin, Creating a Fast Track for Digitizing Languages
John Hudson, IF “Sanskrit“ THEN
1:15-2:15: LUNCH PROVIDED FOR SPEAKERS & CHAIRS ONLY
2:15-4:15
Tawfik Jelassi, Harnessing Language Technologies to Promote Linguistic Diversity in the Digital Age
Mark Davis, Helena Aytenfisu, and Emiyare Cyril Ikwut-Ukwa, Enabling All Languages on Phones and Computers: Progress and Processes
Sarmad Hussain, Universal Acceptance of Multilingual Domain Names for Customer Choice and Digital Inclusion
Toral Cowieson, Maroua Bezzaoui, and Samuel Minev-Benzecry, Empowering Voices: Lessons Learned and the Future of Inclusion for Digitally Disadvantaged Languages
4:15-4:30: BREAK
4:30-5:00 Dr. Chan Yeh Practitioner Announcement and Celebration
5:00-6:30 KEYNOTE & ROUNDTABLE
Stanford President Jonathan Levin, Introduction
Adam Yeo, The Future of Bété Script: Embracing Digital Inclusion
Roundtable: Digital Inclusion in the 21st Century
Tawfik Jelassi (UNESCO)
Toral Cowieson (Unicode)
Guilherme Canela de Souza Godoi (UNESCO)
Maroua Bezzaoui (Stanford)
Helena Aytenfisu (Stanford)
Moderated by Thomas S. Mullaney & Elaine Treharne (Stanford)
DINNER PROVIDED FOR SPEAKERS & CHAIRS ONLY
DAY TWO
SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 2025
STANFORD HUMANITIES CENTER
8:30-9:15: REGISTRATION & COFFEE
9:15-11:15
Anshuman Pandey, Flowing in New Directions: Evolutions in the Representations of Kulitan
Kourosh Beigpour, From Script to Screen: The Digital Journey of the Laki Language
Mark Jamra and Neil Patel, Fonts and Utilities for Sunuwar
Simon Charwey, Digitizing Dangme: Advancing African Language Preservation and Accessibility through Typographic Innovation [remote]
11:15-11:30: COFFEE BREAK
11:30-1:00
Frida Medrano, The Color Era of Variable Fonts
Gerui Wang, Why Do AI Generated Texts and Images Erode Cultural Diversity?
Min-Young Kim, The Problems Type Face with VR Now
1:00-2:00: LUNCH PROVIDED FOR SPEAKERS & CHAIRS ONLY
2:00-3:30
Marta Bernstein, Researching Italian Type History: On Analog and Digital Archives, and a Scrappy Database
John D. Berry, Multilingual and Multiscript Book Design
Kateryna Korolevtseva, Ukrainian Cyrillic: Research-Based Typeface Inspired by Cossack Baroque Heritage [remote]
3:30-3:45: COFFEE BREAK
3:45-5:45
Eason Lu, The Battle of the Gendered Script: Incorporating Nüshu into Unicode
Anushah Hossain, ISCII Imperialism
Loïc Marleix, Rediscovery and Digitalization of The Lovers Communication System
Sina Ahmadi, Developing Language Technologies for Middle Eastern Languages [remote]
5:45-6:30 DAY TWO CLOSING DISCUSSION
