Events
August 2025
Lecture: Tô Lan NGUYỄN
From Handwriting to Woodblock Engraving: The Buddhist Printing Culture in Early 20th Century Northern Vietnam
Tô Lan NGUYỄN (Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences)
Woodblock printing was the principal technique for producing printed books in Vietnam’s pre-modern literary tradition, even after other methods such as lithography or typography had been developed. This presentation offers a case study...
Lecture: Joseba Estevez
Paper Thrones, Inked Crowns: Daoist Deities and Celestial Officers of the Lanten Yao Living Manuscripts in Laos
Joseba Estevez (University of Hong Kong)
This talk presents the Lanten Yao “living manuscripts” of northern Laos—a distinctive category of ritual objects that Lanten Dao Kong priests and Tai Kong masters regard as the embodiment of Daoist deities. Unlike conventional sacred texts...
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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