February 2025
Talk: Auwalu Muhammad Hassan
Literary Production, Islamic Scholarship and Religious Authority in 20th-Century Kano, Northern Nigeria: Hassana Ahmad Sufi Kano
Auwalu Muhammad Hassan (Department of History, Sa’adatu Rimi University of Education, Kano, Nigeria)
The 19th-century Sokoto Caliphate produced a prominent female author, scholar and teacher in the person of Nana Asma’u (b.1208 / 1793-4, d. 1280/1864), the daughter of...
Thursday Lecture: Carlos Zamacona
Digital projects on Earlier Egyptian mortuary texts developed at the University of Alcalá (2019–2026)
Carlos Zamacona (University of Alcalá)
In this paper, I briefly describe five projects of analysis and interpretation of the mortuary texts written in Earlier Egyptian, that is, ancient and middle Egyptian (between 2500 and 1500 BC). Most of the texts under study are inscribed inside rectangular...
March 2025
Lecture Series: Philosophy By Hand. The Agency of Manuscripts in Shaping Human Thought
Lecture 5/8
Hanna Gentili:
The Power of the Mise-en-page: Notebooks and Study Materials in the Jewish Renaissance
Workshop: Filling the Time Gaps
Filling the Time Gaps: Traditional and Current Methods for Dating the Manuscripts of Highland and Southeast Asia
Dates and chronologies are the backbone of both history, archeology, and manuscript studies. Without a time frame delineating the context for every material heritage object, no material culture can be understood: neither the sequence of events nor the sequence of visual change in...
Workshop: Manuscript Cultures in the Caucasus
The workshop brings together specialists in the three manuscript cultures that developed in the course of the Christianisation of the southern Caucasus during the first millennium of our era, Armenian, Georgian, and Caucasian Albanian, with a view to discuss their spread, their scopes, their shapes, and their peculiarities. Special attention will be paid to the material analysis of the manuscripts...
April 2025
Conference and Workshop: Shifting Scripts
The conference “Shifting Scripts: Contemporary Arabic and Persian Graphic Design” examines Arabic and Persian typographic design from SWANA (Southwest Asia and North Africa) and its diasporas within the broader academic framework of script studies. Organized by the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (MK&G) in collaboration with the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) at the...
Lecture Series: Philosophy By Hand. The Agency of Manuscripts in Shaping Human Thought
Lecture 6/8
Michael Engel:
Between Grand Ambitions and Tentative Conclusions: Averroe's Middle Commentary on Aristotle's De generatione et corruptione in its Hebrew Guise
June 2025
Lecture Series: Philosophy By Hand. The Agency of Manuscripts in Shaping Human Thought
Lecture 7/8
Margherita Mantovani:
The Image of Death and the Misplaced Quire: A Tale of Two Codices
July 2025
Lecture Series: Philosophy By Hand. The Agency of Manuscripts in Shaping Human Thought
Lecture 8/8
Caterina Tarlazzi:
Latin Manuscripts of Logic, 1080-1200 or: The Turmoil Below the Surface