08-03-2022, 04:57 PM
This looks like a smart move by the University of Malta.
There's not much academic competition for VMS research so :
a) UofM can get in at the ground floor, so to speak.
b) If anything tasty turns up at the conference, UofM gets the prestige and kudos.
Just having a Voynich coference is going to get UofM some press attention.
Having some bigwigs in attendance at the UofM like, Beinecke curator Ray Clemens, LFD herself and ReneZ adds gravitas.
And it's another step towards Academic respectability for the VMS, undoing a little of the damage wrought by W.R.Newbold.
So it's wins all round
There's not much academic competition for VMS research so :
a) UofM can get in at the ground floor, so to speak.
b) If anything tasty turns up at the conference, UofM gets the prestige and kudos.
Just having a Voynich coference is going to get UofM some press attention.
Having some bigwigs in attendance at the UofM like, Beinecke curator Ray Clemens, LFD herself and ReneZ adds gravitas.
And it's another step towards Academic respectability for the VMS, undoing a little of the damage wrought by W.R.Newbold.
So it's wins all round


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