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Manuscript Cultures

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Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures

The Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) brings together an international and cross-disciplinary research community to study written artefacts at Universität Hamburg.

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Cluster of Excellence 'Understanding Written Artefacts'

CSMC is home to the Cluster of Excellence 'Understanding Written Artefacts'. Funded by the DFG, it comprises over 50 research projects from more than 40 academic disciplines.

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Artefact of the Month

Innovative Hieroglyphic Technologies from Highland Guatemala

It is an unassuming quadrangular box, made of fired clay in the highlands of what is now Guatemala in the late first millennium CE. Yet it provides an outsized window to the history of Maya hieroglyphs, technologies of writing, and the linguistic and cultural diversity of the ancient Maya lowlands.

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Inscribing Funerary Spaces

Wherever people commemorate their dead, they use written artefacts. What do funerary inscriptions look like in different cultures, who do they target, and what do they reveal about a society? From 30 March to 1 April, the international workshop ‘Inscribing Funerary Spaces’ explores these questions.

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Artists in Residence

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Artists in Residence

'Increasing Countdown' by Axel Malik

Leading up to the international conference ‘Studying Written Artefacts: Challenges and Perspectives’, Axel Malik, Artist in Residence at CSMC, has launched the ‘Increasing Countdown’. This unique sequence of script-like characters will be extended day by day – for 756 days, until 27 September 2023.

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CSMC Film

What does it mean to do research on written artefacts? Employing concrete examples, this video gives an introduction to the work of scholars and scientists at CSMC.
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Universität Hamburg
Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures
Warburgstraße 26
20354 Hamburg