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The Cluster of Excellence Understanding Written Artefacts opened a call for applications for a research associate  for the project RFC02 Valuating Handwriting in the Digital Age: A Case Study in Japanese Calligraphy in the research field Creating Originals. Please visit the vacant positions page for more details. The call...

The Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) cordially invites you to the three-day (online) workshop titled 'History, Art and Epic in Medieval Manuscripts'.

The workshop will be held at the following dates:

Tuesday, 19 January 2021, 02:00-04:00 pm CET
Wednesday, 20 January 2021, 02:00-04:00 pm CET
Friday, 22...

The fifth part of our new video series Working from Home Around the World is online. In this episode, Peera Panarut, Research Associate at the Cluster of Excellence ‘Understanding Written Artefacts’, talks about the impact of restricted access to manuscripts, digitisation efforts in the field of Thai philology, and the role...

The Cluster of Excellence Understanding Written Artefacts opened a call for applications for a research associate in the research field Archiving Artefacts. Please visit the vacant positions page for more details. The call closes on 31 January 2021. 

Please note that due to changes in the registration process for the virtual lecture series ‘Maps and Colours’, participants now receive information on how to attend the lectures on Zoom via email using this registration form. Registration is only required once and the link you receive upon registration will be valid for the...

The fourth part of our new video series Working from Home Around the World is online. In this episode, Coleman Donaldson, postdoctoral Research Associate for the Ajami Lab at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, talks about the lab’s research into Ajami, sub-Saharan languages written in Arabic script, how the...