Events
September 2025
Large Language Models for Research Data Management?!
Research data management (RDM) has become an important discipline that enables researchers to effectively organise, preserve and share their research results.
RDM is a new development that aims to prepare researchers for the future by building on the principles of open science. It utilises innovative approaches such as generative artificial intelligence (genAI), which is powered by large...
October 2025
Workshop: ‘Second Hands’ and ‘Second Thoughts’
In cooperation with the Institute of Austrian and German Music Research (IAGMR), University of Surrey, this international workshop focuses on 19th- and 20th-century music manuscripts from Austria and Germany. Using the concept of ‘multilayered written artefacts’, the event explores how various written layers — both original and added — shape the editing, performance, and archiving of musical...
Thursday Lecture: Roberta Mazza
Ethics in Manuscript Studies
Roberta Mazza (University of Bologna)
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Workshop: Translation Choices in Multilingual Written Artefacts
Workshop: Translation Choices in Multilingual Written Artefacts
Navigating Visual and Cultural Layers
Translation practices leave traces that are often as intricate as they are elusive. In many cases, the only surviving witnesses to these practices are the artefacts themselves – written objects marked by their visual organisation, material features, or paratextual additions. Sometimes...
November 2025
DFG-Netzwerk Wort – Wirkung – Wunder
Die Praxis: Magische Wirkprinzipien
Das vierte Kolloquium des DFG-Netzwerks stellt die historischen Praktiken der Sprachmagie in den Vordergrund. Um diese (routinemäßig) vollzogenen Handlungen auch kulturübergreifend vergleichbar zu machen, wird insbesondere untersucht, durch welche äußeren Umstände oder Handlungen die Texte wirksam werden. Dabei unterscheiden wir grundsätzlich zwischen (I.)...