Events

The talks will be given in Chinese, summaries in English will be provided

Who was Mr. Liejian? A Case Study of the Dongba Manuscripts in the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin

This talk identifies the author and copying date of the Naxi Dongba manuscripts marked “Liejian” by analyzing the colophons and marks in the collections of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (SBB), revealing that Mr. Liejian was a...

Lecture 4/7

Carlos Fraenkel:

Samuel Ibn Tibbon’s Notes on His Translation of Maimonides’ Guide for the Perplexed

Lexico-pharmacological cuneiform manuscripts: Thoughts on the tradition of Uruanna-mashtakal

Professor Dr Barbara Böck (Institute for Mediterranean and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures)

Sometime in the second half of the 7th century BCE the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal decided to issue a new edition of the lexico-pharmaceutical treatise Uruanna. The title comes from its first word, which is a...

Lecture 5/7

Anke Graness:

Philosophy by Hand or Mouth-to-Ear Philosophy? Philosophy in Oral Traditions

Manuscripts as Witnesses to the Cultural Contexts and Material Conditions of Textual Transmission: The MsPhys Project

Professor Dr Shari Boodts (Radboud Institute for Culture and History, Radboud University

Medieval manuscripts are an inexhaustible source of information about the past. By their very nature, they facilitate, even encourage, modifications from copy to copy, providing a distinctive...

Lecture 6/7

Isabelle Ratié:

Reading, Writing, Philosophising in Medieval India

Lecture 7/7

Yael Gazit:

Don’t Look Back in Anger: Reconsidering Appropriation of Past Philosophy 

Parchment as 11 Layers of Language

Matthew Collins (University of Cambridge)

I will argue that the future of the humanities lies in a "knowledge ecology" where in areas such as the biomolecular humanities, biologists, historians, and digital researchers should co-create meaning from the inception of research. Just as the Danish Kitchen Midden Commission of 1848 revolutionized interdisciplinary...