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12 September 2024|CSMC News

Announcing the J.P. Gumbert Dissertation Award 2024

With the J. P. Gumbert Dissertation Award 2024, the CSMC honours the best doctoral thesis defended between 1 January 2023 and 31 August 2024 that contributes to any aspect of the study of manuscripts and other written artefacts. We now welcome nominations!

11 September 2024|CSMC News

Written Artefacts of Nepal

Nepal is home to exceptionally diverse manuscript collections, both in terms of scripts and languages as well as materials used. In the new episode of his video series, Bidur Bhattarai’s shows how to wrap manuscripts in cotton cloth.

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9 September 2024|CSMC News

The Mummy Book Under the Microscope

When researchers in Graz announced in early summer 2023 that they had found a fragment of a 2,300-year-old codex, it was a scoop – it would be by far the world’s oldest fragment of a bound book. But is the ‘Graz Mummy Book’ really one? The Artefact Lab at the CSMC aims to find the answer.

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19.09.249:00 AM

Workshop: Materiality of Sufi Manuscripts

23.09.241:30 PM

CHAI 2024 - 4th Workshop on Humanities-Centred AI at KI2024

30.09.242:00 PM

Workshop: Inscribing Love

17.10.244:15 PM

Thursday lecture: Ciro Giacomelli

18.10.2410:00 AM

Data Linking Workshop 2024

07.11.249:30 AM

Workshop: Filling Space with(in) Script

06.02.252:00 PM

Workshop: Mathematical Notes: Materiality and Epistemology

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Artefact of the Month

The Brother and the Sister, the Tablet, the Epitaph and their Tutor

About two thousand inscriptions are scattered throughout the ruins of the city of Palmyra. Many of them survived in tombs. One such funerary relief, carefully carved by local stonemasons seventeen centuries ago, shows two prematurely deceased children. What were their names, and what do the inscriptions reveal about their lives?

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Graduation Ceremony for MA Students

The Asia-Africa Institute (AAI) at the University of Hamburg honoured all graduates of the classes of 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 with a festive graduation ceremony. Among them were several graduates of the MA programme ‘Manuscript Cultures’, which is offered by the Graduate School of the CSMC.

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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.

CSMCCentre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures

Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures