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29 September 2023|CSMC News

Rescuing the Manuscripts of al-Jazzar

Photo: Maria Luisa Russo

The al-Jazzar Mosque of Akka still houses parts of a significant collection now spread around the globe. But the local holdings are at risk. The CSMC is now carrying out a short-term project to create the conditions for the long-term preservation of the manuscripts.

28 September 2023|CSMC News

Cécile Michel receives Honorary Doctorate from Universität Hamburg

Photo: Karsten Helmholz

The Faculty of Humanities at Universität Hamburg has awarded Cécile Michel an honorary doctorate. Michel has been an internationally respected authority in the field of Assyriology for many years. At the CSMC she is active in several important roles.

25 September 2023|CSMC News

This Week: UWA Conference 2023

Photo: Karsten Helmholz

From 27 to 29 September 2023, the Cluster of Excellence ‘Understanding Written Artefacts’ (UWA) gathers experts from all over the world in Hamburg for its most comprehensive conference on manuscript research to date. One focus will be on ethical issues in dealing with written artefacts.

18 September 2023|CSMC News

A New Machine for Ancient Clay

Photo: Karsten Helmholz

It is a significant addition to the laboratory of CSMC: a new CT scanner, which makes it possible to read sealed cuneiform tablets from Mesopotamia, has now arrived at the premises of the Cluster. The device was developed and built in a joint project between the CSMC and DESY.

12 September 2023|CSMC News

The Untold Stories of Written Artefacts

Photo: Agnieszka Helman-Ważny

This winter semester, the Cluster holds its Equal Opportunity and Diversity Lecture Series again. Ten lectures by experts from a variety of fields start telling the stories of thus far neglected aspects of manuscript studies. The series is part of the public lecture schedule of Universität Hamburg.

11 September 2023|CSMC News

‘Everything is Connected through Atmospheres of Unreadability’

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This autumn, Axel Malik turns the SUB Hamburg into ‘The Feverish Library’. In our interview, he talks about the impact of art in public spaces and why libraries are the ideal environment for his unreadable signs.

8 September 2023|CSMC News

Short Lecture Series: Handle with Care

Photo: Agnieszka Helman-Wazny

Doing research on written artefacts implies bearing responsibility for the ethical treatment of the artefacts themselves, the people of the communities to which they belong, and the data obtained from studying them. A short lecture series deals with the complex demands researchers face at work.

29 August 2023|CSMC News

Gotha Manuscript Talks

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The Gotha Manuscript Talks are back with four lectures in October and November. The series of talks in Islamic Studies is a cooperation between CSMC and the Gotha Research Library and is taking place for the fifth time.

24 August 2023|CSMC News

‘Tied and Bound’: New Volume of SMC Out Now

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The new volume of ‘Studies in Manuscript Cultures’ presents a series of case studies on devices and strategies adopted by different manuscript cultures to achieve the cohesion of codicological units, thus offering a comparative frame to understand a phenomenon that is of essential importance in the...

23 August 2023|CSMC News

The Feverish Library

Photo: Axel Malik

This September, the Hamburg State and University Library (SUB) appears in a new look. In cooperation with CSMC, Axel Malik will turn the SUB into a 'Feverish Library', with art installations on and inside the building. The exhibition opens on 12 September and will be on display until 31 October.

10 August 2023|CSMC News

New Faces at CSMC

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This August, we welcome several new doctoral researchers and a new professor of Assyriology at at the Centre.

9 August 2023|CSMC News

Elif Sezer and Daria Kohler (Kondakova) Win J.P. Gumbert Dissertation Award

Photo: Elif Sezer/Daria Kohler (Kondakova)

We are happy to announce the winners of the J.P. Gumbert Dissertation Award 2023. For their excellent contributions, the award goes to two recent PhD graduates: Elif Sezer (FU Berlin) and Daria Kohler (Kondakova) (KU Leuven).

7 August 2023|CSMC News

UWA Conference 2023: Programme Now Online

Photo: Karsten Helmholz

From 27 to 29 September, the Cluster of Excellence Understanding Written Artefacts is organising the most comprehensive conference of its current funding phase. The programme of ‘Studying Written Artefacts: Challenges and Perspectives’ has now been published and registration is open.

1 August 2023|CSMC News

School Holidays in Virtual Miletus

Photo: Jenny Gabel

Every year, the Deutsche JuniorAkademien (DJA) offer talented young students intellectual challenges that go beyond the school curriculum. As part of their programme, twelve students explored the VR reconstruction of the theatre of Miletus created at the CSMC this July.

20 July 2023|CSMC News

Alessandro Musino Succesfully Defends His PhD Dissertation

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Alessandro Musino has passed his viva voce examination, thus completing his PhD in Greek Studies.

17 July 2023|CSMC News

Now Available in German: 'Thus speaks Tarām-Kūbi'

The multi-award winning documentary 'Thus Speaks Tarām-Kūbi', which tells the story of a woman’s everyday life in ancient Mesopotamia based on 4000-year-old cuneiform clay tablets, is now available in German.

12 July 2023|CSMC News

Caucasian Albania: Public Book Presentation

Photo: De Gruyter

The first international handbook on Caucasian ‘Albania’ provides an overview of the current state of research on a topic that is little known in the West in both academic and public circles. This Thursday, the two editors present the open-access volume at CSMC.

4 July 2023|CSMC News

The Joint Creation of a Text Series Typology

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A recently launched project by Marco Heiles and Katharina Zeppezauer-Wachauer takes advantage of the benefits of open, digital publishing: their text series typology creates a controlled vocabulary for designating text series in Middle High German and Early High German literature up to around 1520.

3 July 2023|CSMC News

Sina Sauer Succesfully Defends Her PhD Dissertation

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Sina Sauer has passed her viva voce examination, thus completing her PhD in Cultural Anthropology.

30 June 2023|CSMC News

Andronikos Kallistos and His Manuscripts in Italian Humanism

Photo: De Gruyter

The new volume of the series 'Studies in Manuscript Cultures' is out now. 'Andronikos Kallistos: A Byzantine Scholar and His Manuscripts in Italian Humanism' by Luigi Orlandi provides the first in-depth account of the life and the vast scholarly activities of an erudite personality.

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