Events
December 2022
Digital Lunch Seminar Series: Inorganic Non-Metallic Supports
Inorganic Non-Metallic Supports
Kaja Harter-Uibopuu and Boriana Mihailova
The diversity of written artefacts in terms of material support is huge and it includes clay tablets, stones, metal, ivory, parchment, palm leaves, paper, et cetera. Among these, mineral- or rock-based supports have usually been considered as ‘forever-lasting’ messengers and therefore have played a critical role as a means...
Permanent Seminar on Manuscript Analysis, Description, and Documentation
Permanent Seminar on Manuscript Analysis, Description, and Documentation
Forms of Manuscripts and Their Description: ‘Folded Manuscripts (Concertinas)’
‘Folded manuscripts’ are a wide class of written artefacts that have as a common feature the folding of a surface along a horizontal or vertical axis, or in both directions subsequently (concertinas, leporellos, folded almanacs and ‘bat books’)...
Lecture Series: Between Invisibility and Autonomy
Between Invisibility and Autonomy: Negotiating Gender Roles in Manuscript Cultures
Lecture 6/9
Women as Scribes in Jewish Manuscript Cultures
Michael Kohs (Hamburg)
Jewish manuscript cultures have a multifaceted and diverse history of over 2500 years, beginning in Antiquity. Over a long time, men were dominant for the production and the use of manuscripts. This holds especially true for the...
Lecture Series: Handle with Care: Cultural Heritage and Ethics in Manuscript Studies
Handle with Care: Cultural Heritage and Ethics in Manuscript Studies
Lecture 3/5:
Ethical Issues in Working with Artefacts
R.B. Davidson MacLaren
Jerusalem: City of the Book. A Conversation with Benjamin Balint
What might it look like to read Jerusalem, with its cross-hatched encounters between people of diverse faiths and cultures, as a city of the book? There are many books *about* Jerusalem. 'Jerusalem: City of the Book' (Yale UP 2019), by Benjamin Balint and Merav Mack, tells the story of books *in* Jerusalem. Prof. Moshe Halbertal has called their book “one of the most intimate and beautiful...
Lecture Series: Between Invisibility and Autonomy
Between Invisibility and Autonomy: Negotiating Gender Roles in Manuscript Cultures
Lecture 7/9
Patrons of Paper and Clay: Methods for Studying Women's Religiosity in Ancient Japan
Dr Bryan Lowe (Princeton)
Women were not on the margins of Buddhist patronage in premodern Japan; they were squarely at the center. Scholars’ tendency to rely on published texts, however, masks the contributions of...
January 2023
Lecture Series: Between Invisibility and Autonomy
Between Invisibility and Autonomy: Negotiating Gender Roles in Manuscript Cultures
Lecture 8/9
Nuns, Domestic Virgins, and Female Devotees in Late Antique Egypt: Evidence From Greek and Coptic Graffiti, Papyri, and Other Written Artefacts
Dr Leah Mascia (Hamburg)
Epigraphic, papyrological, and other textual sources provide essential information on the role played by women in the Christian...
Lecture Series: Handle with Care: Cultural Heritage and Ethics in Manuscript Studies
Handle with Care: Cultural Heritage and Ethics in Manuscript Studies
Lecture 4/5:
Ethical Issues in Producing, Storing, and Using Data
Dr Stefan Thiemann
Permanent Seminar on Manuscript Analysis, Description, and Documentation
Permanent Seminar on Manuscript Analysis, Description, and Documentation
Forms of Manuscripts and Their Description: ‘Folded Manuscripts (Concertinas)’
‘Folded manuscripts’ are a wide class of written artefacts that have as a common feature the folding of a surface along a horizontal or vertical axis, or in both directions subsequently (concertinas, leporellos, folded almanacs and ‘bat books’)...
Digital Lunch Seminar Series: Digitalisation
Digitalisation – Visual-Pattern Analysis in Digitised Written Artefacts
Agnieszka Helman-Wazny and Hussein Adnan Mohammed
Automatic visual-pattern analysis has become increasingly important for scholars in the humanities as the number of digitised manuscripts has grown exponentially. Even clearly defined tasks such as image categorisation or finding specific visual elements have become very...
Lecture Series: Between Invisibility and Autonomy
Between Invisibility and Autonomy: Negotiating Gender Roles in Manuscript Cultures
Lecture 9/9
Female Contributions to Islamic Text Production and Circulation
Professor Dr Britta Frede (Universität Bayreuth)
This lecture looks at written testimonies of Islamic scholarship within contemporary Mauritania. Women scholars were active in local institutions of Islamic education since several...
February 2023
Material Goods
In Collaboration with Kampnagel
Since the 2000s, the “material turn” in science and art has led to a paradigm shift. Accordingly, work processes and their materialities (researched and used documents, rehearsal recordings, archiving of productions) have increasingly been brought into focus and artistically reflected in dance and performing art. Thus, in the performative arts, which are considered...
Permanent Seminar on Manuscript Analysis, Description, and Documentation
Permanent Seminar on Manuscript Analysis, Description, and Documentation
Forms of Manuscripts and Their Description: ‘Folded Manuscripts (Concertinas)’
‘Folded manuscripts’ are a wide class of written artefacts that have as a common feature the folding of a surface along a horizontal or vertical axis, or in both directions subsequently (concertinas, leporellos, folded almanacs and ‘bat books’)...
Winter School: Cuneiform Culture and the Akkadian Language
Instructor: Professor Dr Cécile Michel
The seminar will start with an overview of the cuneiform writing systems (logographic, syllabic, alphabetical) and their decipherment, cuneiform manuscripts and inscriptions, the variety of cuneiform texts, their organisation in archives and libraries, the scribes and their curriculum. This general introduction on cuneiform texts forms the basis for the...
June 2023
DL Workshop 2023
DL Workshop 2023: Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing – Challenges in the Humanities
The humanities meet computer science to create new synergies using computer vision and natural language processing.
Aim & Scope
Historians are increasingly using technologies to evaluate digitised texts in a machine-readable way, as well as techniques from the field of natural language...