Events
May 2025
Workshop: Lexicographical Traditions and Their Agendas
Collecting Words and Putting Them in Place: Lexicographical Traditions and Their Agendas
Jointly organised by the Cluster of Excellence Understanding Written Artefacts and the Academy Projects Etymologika, INEL, and Tamilex
The workshop aims at discovering the hidden universals that inform lexicographical writings beyond one specific language or period of time. To achieve this, we will adopt a...
Lecture: Ray Schrire and Dror Wahrman
A Woman Doing her Accounts: Some Lessons from a Peripatetic Early-Modern Image
Ray Schrire (Tel Aviv University) and Dror Wahrman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem / Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin)
In 1745, the Swedish princess Louisa Ulrika of Prussia commissioned a pair of paintings from the French artist Jean Siméon Chardin. His response set off an extraordinary chain of reproduction, repurposing...
Workshop: Spatio-temporal Profiles of Multigraphic Written Artefacts
Multigraphic written artefacts are characterised by their uses of multiple graphical modes to convey information including texts, pictorial elements, diagrams, musical or choreographic notations, maps, tables and all kinds of combinations of those. They form a visual matrix that offers, and often demands, a complex, multi-modal way of engagement. These artefacts are present in most writing...
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
Workshop: Learning to Write
Learning to write is an essential cultural technique which lies at the heart of the production and dissemination of both secular and religious manuscripts. Learning and teaching writing skills is an organised knowledge transfer, be it from an individual teacher to a disciple, or in the form of a school or scriptorium.
The workshop aims to address but is not limited to the following research...
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