CSMCCentre for the Study of
Manuscript Cultures

With the beginning of the new semester, we welcome several new and some returning CSMC members in various capacities: professors, senior professors, associated researchers at the Cluster of Excellence, and Petra-Kappert Fellows.

The art historian and sinologist will take up the professorship in East Asian art history this winter semester. At the Cluster of Excellence 'Understanding Written Artefacts', she investigated popular calligraphy practices in socialist China.

In the new edition of our series 'Artefact of the Month', a king with a penchant for building projects comes up with an innovative idea to literally imprint his name on posterity.

This winter semester, the CSMC offers a special lecture series in cooperation with the Göttinger Akademie der Wissenschaften. The kickoff is next Tuesday, 19 October.

With an opening event on 29 September, CSMC and the Central Department of Nepalbhasa officially launched their joint effort to preserve a collection of written artefacts that offer valuable insights into Nepalese history and culture.

The workshop ‘Removed and Rewritten’ on 7 and 8 October ends with a special event: Axel Malik, currently Artist in Residence at CSMC, will present his ‘Intervention Palimpsests’. In this interview, he talks about the transformative power of writing and the common cause of art and science.