October 2024
Lecture Series: Written Artefacts across World Regions
Lecture 1/9
Hanna Wimmer:
Introduction – Written Artefacts across World Regions: Incommensurabilities and Comparisons
DiPiKA Lecture: Hugo David
Palm-leaf manuscripts from private collections in Central Kerala – an outline of three recent research projects in Thrissur and its region
Hugo David (École française d’Extrême-Orient)
The Indian state of Kerala, at the South-Western end of the Indian subcontinent, is well-known for its rich and unique heritage in the form of palm-leaf manuscripts, transmitting texts in a variety of domains...
Thursday lecture: Ciro Giacomelli
The Threefold Cord: Philology, Codicology, and Palaeography
Ciro Giacomelli (Padova University)
For many years, classical philology and palaeography followed largely separate paths, rarely intersecting in the study of manuscript traditions. However, since the mid-20th century, the situation has evolved. Today, it is widely recognized that the study of textual traditions benefits greatly from the...
Data Linking Workshop 2024
Dataset Provision and Citation in the Digital Age
Research in the humanities is evolving with the introduction of data-driven methods and visualization techniques that integrate different datasets such as images, videos, and texts. This change is supported by institutional research repositories that follow the FAIR principles (findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability) and...
Lecture Series: Written Artefacts across World Regions
Lecture 2/9
María Isabel Álvarez Icaza Longoria:
The Regional Culture Attribution of Calendrical-Ritual-Divinatory Mesoamerican Manuscripts
Lecture Series: Philosophy By Hand. The Agency of Manuscripts in Shaping Human Thought
Lecture 1/8
Yoav Meyrav:
Manuscripts and the Historiography of Medieval Philosophy: A View from the Margins
Workshop: Genesis of Writing
Glottographic writing is known to have originated independently of any pre-existing writing four times in antiquity, in Mesopotamia, Egypt, China and Mesoamerica. For each of these areas scholars past and present, relying chiefly on archaeological finds, have explored the ‘origins’ of writing and have attempted to reconstruct the structure of early writing systems. Beyond this, considerable recent...
Lecture Series: Written Artefacts across World Regions
Lecture 3/9
Mohammed Tawaf:
Archives and Archival Practices in Yemen
November 2024
Workshop: Filling Space with(in) Script
In his ‘poesie der fläche’ (poetry of the space), Franz Mon describes how the arrangement of writing – for example the ‘expansion, nesting, sequencing, jamming, dropping and many other gestural movements’ – adds value to the written text. As he states, the ‘optical gesture naturally joins the phonetic and semantic – as a supplement, extension, tension, negation.’ [1] While Mon only refers to...
Lecture Series: Written Artefacts across World Regions
Lecture 4/9
M.V. Muralikrishnan:
Key Features and Significance of the Manuscripts in the Panthal Collection: An Important Collection within the DiPiKA Project
Lecture Series: Written Artefacts across World Regions
Lecture 5/9
Nathael Cano:
Pictographic Manuscripts from New Spain: The Heritage Science Approach
Lecture Series: Written Artefacts across World Regions
Lecture 6/9
Djibril Dramé:
Malian Manuscripts through the Lens of Jenne: Socio-Linguistic Diversity in Digitised Collections
Lecture Series: Philosophy By Hand. The Agency of Manuscripts in Shaping Human Thought
Lecture 2/8
José Maksimczuk:
Material for Thought: Reflections on the Manuscript Transmission of Aristotle's Organon
December 2024
Lecture Series: Written Artefacts across World Regions
Lecture 7/9
Thaneerat Jatuthasri:
Investigating Thai Court Dance-Drama Manuscripts: Texts, Paratexts, and Text-Performance Relations
Lecture Series: Written Artefacts across World Regions
Lecture 8/9
Djamel-Eddine Mechehed:
The Codicological Study of the (Arabic and Berber) Manuscript Collection of Lmuhub Ulahbib in Kabylia, Algeria
Lecture Series: Written Artefacts across World Regions
Lecture 9/9
Elaheh Shahpasand:
The Impact of the Idea of “the Masculinity of the Qur’ān” on Ten Qur’ānic Readings, with Case Studies from the Astan Quds Razavi Manuscript Library in Mashhad, Iran
Lecture Series: Philosophy By Hand. The Agency of Manuscripts in Shaping Human Thought
Lecture 3/8
Silvia di Vincenzo:
Philosophy at School: Intertwining Voices from the Margins and the Social History of Logic
January 2025
Lecture Series: Philosophy By Hand. The Agency of Manuscripts in Shaping Human Thought
Lecture 4/8
John Marenbon:
Early Mediaval Latin Manuscripts and the Social History of Logic
February 2025
Workshop: Mathematical Notes: Materiality and Epistemology
The study of notes written in mathematical language has long been an indispensable ingredient of a wider history of the mathematical sciences. Thus, the analysis and interpretation of the notes of prominent figures such as Galileo, Newton, Hilbert and Einstein have provided us with important insights into research processes and scientific thinking. At the same time, mathematical notes and...
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
April 2025
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