Events
July 2025
Gender in Manuscript Cultures Lecture: Britta Frede
Why should we be interested in women's contribution to Islamic scholarly culture?
Dr Britta Frede (University of Bayreuth), Guest Professor for Gender in Manuscript Cultures
Islamic manuscript culture and scholarly culture have a long and ambiguous history. First, the question of what texts are supposed to be written down and second, who shall access the written texts, have been subject to...
Thursday Lecture: Ignasi-Xavier Adiego Lajara
Carian Epigraphy: Typology of Texts and Their Interpretation
Professor Dr Ignasi-Xavier Adiego Lajara (Universitat de Barcelona)
Unlike other local languages of ancient Anatolia—such as Phrygian, Lycian, Lydian, Sidetic, or Pisidian—Carian epigraphy presents a remarkable typological, geographical, and graphic diversity. The corpus includes funerary stelae, graffiti, public inscriptions, votive...
Thursday Lecture: Silvia Orlandi
Paper Epigraphy: Handwritten (Re)Sources for the Study of Ancient Inscriptions
Professor Dr Silvia Orlandi (Sapienza University of Rome)
A large number of inscriptions are known not from the original stone, but from handwritten copies and drawings collected in manuscripts preserved in libraries all over Europe. The editors of the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum made an incredible job in checking...
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
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...