Programme
International Conference on the Voynich Manuscript 2026
Conference starts at 1300 CET December 9 (Central European Time – UTC + 1)
Wednesday December 9, 2026
1300 Conference Opening – Colin Layfield – University of Malta
1305 Keynote Speech - Voynichese Orthographic Structure: The linguistics of sounds and writing, with implications for the Voynich Manuscript – Claire Bowern (Yale)
Session One – Moderated by John Abela
14:00 - 1430: Elena Efimova, Nataliia Drozhashchikh
The Collocational Structure of the Voynich Manuscript
14:30 - 15:00: Felipe J. F. da Silva
Evaluating Hypotheses about the Voynich Manuscript under a Single Reproducible Structural Standard
15:00 – 15:30: Massimiliano Zattera
The anatomy of anomaly: formalizing the generative rules and structural variations of Voynich manuscript word types
15:30 – 16:00: Michael A. Greshko
Algorithmic seriation suggests the Voynich Manuscript is most consistent with an all-singulion collation, informing a bifolium-level reordering of the codex
* 30 Minute Break*
Session Two – Moderated by Lisa Fagin Davis
16:30 – 17:00: René Zandbergen
New insights into the structure of words in the Voynich Manuscript
17:00 – 17:30: Cary Rapaport, Koen Gheuens
Connecting the Dots: How Florentine Annunciation Iconography Illuminates f.86v3 of the Voynich Manuscript
17:30 – 18:00: Tavi-Elisabeth Stafford
Method to the Madness: Hidden Vertical Patterns in the Voynich Manuscript
18:00: Closing Remarks – Colin Layfield – Conference Chair
