May 2024
Workshop: Musical Heritage Across Borders
Musical Heritage Across Borders: Materiality as an Indication of Distribution Channels
Cross-border cultural relations have always existed between all cultures. Which cultural achievements found their way across borders depended, on the one hand, on their value for the source culture and, on the other hand, on their value for the receiving culture. In other words, cultural diffusion has always...
Gender in Manuscript Cultures Lecture: Suzanne Akbari
The Book as Living Relation: Collaborative Study of Lenape (Delaware) Belongings with Indigenous Communities of Origin
Suzanne Akbari (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
“The Book and the Silk Roads” project, now in its second funded phase under the title “Hidden Stories: New Approaches to the Local and Global History of the Book,” includes nine geographical areas of concentration, one of...
June 2024
Workshop: The Ecology of the Physiologus
The Ecology of the Physiologus: Texts, Images, Manuscripts
The Physiologus is a strange and polymorphic early Christian work. Originally written in Greek probably in Alexandria, probably in the third century CE, it was translated into all languages of the Christian East and, through several Latin translations, became very popular in Western Europe throughout the Middle Ages. Although of little...
Thursday Lecture: Piotr Michalowski
Sumerian Literary Manuscripts in Material Contexts: The Archeology of Learning
Piotr Michalowski, George G. Cameron Professor Emeritus of Ancient Middle Eastern Languages and Civilizations an der University of Michigan
The earliest collections of Mesopotamian literary compositions known to us date from the middle of the third millennium BCE but it was only hundreds of years later, in the 18th...
Digital Lunch Seminar Series: ENCI – What is there to Report from Paris?
ENCI – What is there to Report from Paris?
Cécile Michel and Andreas Schropp
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Workshop and Concert: From Manuscript to Sound
From Manuscript to Sound: Colonial Dynamics in Peruvian Musical Manuscript Culture (17th–19th Centuries)
Workshop and Concert
9:30 am – 4:00 pm: Workshop (Venue: Warburgstraße 26, 20354 Hamburg)
‘Peripheries’ are and were fertile grounds for negotiation. In the Peruvian case, far removed from the Spanish centre of power, enforcement oscillated between extremes of harshness and laxity, often...
Informal Talk: Elif Sezer
Written by the Folks: A Material Exploration of Popular Storybooks from the Last Ottoman Manuscript Age
The materiality of Ottoman manuscripts has mostly been investigated through patron-based produced, professionally copied, and lavishly illustrated manuscripts. The huge bulk of manuscripts with popular content that circulated among the reading circles of urban folks -such as mosque visitors...
July 2024
Digital Lunch Seminar Series: Enhancing the Readability of Palimpsests Using Generative AI
Enhancing the Readability of Palimpsests Using Generative AI
Hussein Mohammed and Jost Gippert
Palimpsests are manuscripts that have been scraped or washed for reuse, typically as another document. Recovering the undertext of these manuscripts is of significant interest to scholars in the humanities. Therefore, scholars often employ the multispectral imaging (MSI) technique to render the...
Digital Lunch Seminar Series: Egyptian and Egyptianising Scarabs and Scaraboids
Egyptian and Egyptianising Scarabs and Scaraboids: Glazed Delicacies
Stelios Aspiotis, Olivier Bonnerot, and Leah Mascia
This talk aims to present the preliminary results of an interdisciplinary study dedicated to a corpus of ancient Egyptian and Egyptianising scarabs and scaraboids part of the collection of the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg. These portable written artefacts are among...
Informal Talk: Martin Eybl
Music Manuscripts as Cultural Capital: Musical Public and Class Consciousness in Vienna 1740–1810
Martin Eybl (Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Wien)
Vienna underwent dynamic social and economic development during the Enlightenment century. A music history that does not focus on composers and their works, but instead on music-related practices, opens the perspective to music...
September 2024
CHAI 2024 - 4th Workshop on Humanities-Centred AI at KI2024
Humanities-Centred AI (CHAI)
AI can support research in the Humanities making it easier and more efficient. It is thus essential that AI practitioners and Humanities scholars take a Humanities-centred approach to the development, deployment and application of AI methods for the Humanities.
Call for Papers
This workshop addresses AI methods from the perspective of humanities scholars. We encourage...