Events

Accumulating Notes: Notebooks, Diaries and Related Examples of Everyday 
Writing as Multilayered Written Artefacts

People take notes in different contexts of their daily life, thereby producing (or modifying) a wide range of disparate written artefacts. The term ‘note’ is highly polysemic. As ‘a brief written observation, record, or abstract of facts’ (OED), a note can take the form of ephemeral...

Equal Opportunity & Diversity Lecture Series

Lecture 6/10

Kaja Harter-Uibopuu

Epigraphik im toten Winkel – tote Winkel in der Epigraphik: Beispiele aus der griechisch-römischen Antike

Computational Resources for South Asian Languages

Miriam Butt, Professor, University of Konstanz. Germany.
Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran, Herz Fellow, University of Konstanz/University of Jaffna. Sri Lanka.

In this talk, we will outline various computational tools and resources developed for South Asian languages, with a particular focus on Urdu and Tamil. These developments encompass Taggers...

Short Lecture Series

Handle with Care: Cultural Heritage and Ethics in Manuscript Studies

Lecture 4/7

Jakob Wigand:

Provenance Issues

Writing Women. Gender and Class in 15th- and 16th-Century German-Language Songs, Chronicles and Convent Books

PD Dr Julia Bruch (Universität zu Köln)

Julia Bruch currently holds the guest professorship 'Women in Manuscript Cultures' at the Cluster of Excellence 'Understanding Written Artefacts'. 

The paper deals with urban manuscripts written by women in German-speaking cities in the 15th and...

Equal Opportunity & Diversity Lecture Series

Lecture 7/10

Xiaomeng He

Beyond Silence: Untold Stories of Looted Artefacts from Ancient China and Scholarly Ethical Complexities

Short Lecture Series

Handle with Care: Cultural Heritage and Ethics in Manuscript Studies

Lecture 5/7

Davidson MacLaren:

How to Handle Written Artefacts: A Hands-on Session

Workshop series in Arabic

Since the nineteenth century, the study of manuscripts has been carried out in two separate fields. Traditional philology has primarily concentrated on textual analysis, with the goal of reconstructing the original version of a text by comparing its various extant copies. The notion of an authentic and "correct" original text has been key to this analytical framework. In...

Wood Profiling: Examinations of Wood in the Context of Artefact Analyses

Digital Lunch Seminar Series 2023/2024, Lecture 1/4

Speakers: Professor Dr Jörg Fromm und Dr Marina Creydt

Chair: Malgorzata Grzelec

The first half of the presentation provides a brief overview on wood. No other plant-based substance has had such a strong influence on the history of mankind as wood. With today’s ever...

Equal Opportunity & Diversity Lecture Series

Lecture 8/10

Sanja Ewald

Die (fast) vergessene Hall of Fame – Das Projekt Alsen. Zur Speicherung von ephemeren Graffitischriftzügen im ehemaligen Zementwerk Itzehoe

Workshop series in Arabic

Since the nineteenth century, the study of manuscripts has been carried out in two separate fields. Traditional philology has primarily concentrated on textual analysis, with the goal of reconstructing the original version of a text by comparing its various extant copies. The notion of an authentic and "correct" original text has been key to this analytical framework. In...