Diana Lange is moving from the University of Hamburg to the Humboldt University of Berlin, where she will take up the professorship for the History and Cultures of Central Asia. At the CSMC, she has been leading a research project on the mapping of Tibet.

How did so many objects from Indonesia end up in the collections of museums in Lower Saxony? Roberta Zollo, an alumna of the CSMC Graduate School, is part of a team that seeks to find an answer to this question. ‘We need to revise our understanding of German colonial history,’ she says.

Researchers from the CSMC and its partner institutions, the Matenadaran in Yerevan (Armenia) and the Kekelidze Center in Tbilisi (Georgia), came together for a major workshop to discuss their recent work on dating and provenancing manuscripts from the region and their plans for future collaboration.