Events
February 2021
Workshop: Scratched, Scrawled, Sprayed. Towards a Cross-Cultural Research on Graffiti
From the deserts of Egypt through the forests of Mesoamerica to contemporary metropolises: Graffiti are everywhere, and it has been that way for quite some time. Indeed, the human urge to claim their voice in the visual landscape surrounding them seems to be one of the universals of literate societies. Both as a solo creation on a pristine wall and yet another addition to a chain of scribbles...
March 2021
Workshop: Scratched, Scrawled, Sprayed. Towards a Cross-Cultural Research on Graffiti
From the deserts of Egypt through the forests of Mesoamerica to contemporary metropolises: Graffiti are everywhere, and it has been that way for quite some time. Indeed, the human urge to claim their voice in the visual landscape surrounding them seems to be one of the universals of literate societies. Both as a solo creation on a pristine wall and yet another addition to a chain of scribbles...
Workshop: Scratched, Scrawled, Sprayed. Towards a Cross-Cultural Research on Graffiti
From the deserts of Egypt through the forests of Mesoamerica to contemporary metropolises: Graffiti are everywhere, and it has been that way for quite some time. Indeed, the human urge to claim their voice in the visual landscape surrounding them seems to be one of the universals of literate societies. Both as a solo creation on a pristine wall and yet another addition to a chain of scribbles...
April 2021
Recipes and Recipe Books Across Manuscript Cultures
The workshop was originally scheduled for 16 and 17 November 2020.
Details on the programme and speakers are to be announced.
May 2021
"Tied and Bound”: How to Keep Things Together (or Not?)
Assuming that ‘codicological units’ exist in whatever manuscript cultures and that they are composed of discrete elements, the issue of cohesion of these elements is a general and even universal one. Every manuscript culture has therefore developed physical devices to keep writing surfaces together and these devices can be generally categorized under binding. Like other features of manuscript...
June 2021
POSTPONED Keynote Lecture and opening of the workshop The Raqqada Manuscripts: New Perspectives
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POSTPONED The Raqqada Manuscripts: New Perspectives
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July 2021
Workshop: Explorations into Vietnamese Manuscript Culture
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POSTPONED Merchants’ manuscript culture in the premodern world
Full title: Merchants’ manuscript culture in the premodern world (Merchants and their agents in a comparative perspective)
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October 2021
Manuscript Albums: Collecting& Compiling Handwritten Items
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November 2021
December 2021
The Greco-Roman Theatre as Inscribed Space
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July 2022
Merchants’ manuscript culture in the premodern world (Merchants and their agents in a comparative perspective
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