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5 December 2022|CSMC News

Cuneiform Culture and the Akkadian Language

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A winter school on ‘Cuneiform Culture and the Akkadian Language’ will take place from 20-24 February 2023. The course is taught at introductory level and participation is open to students from all backgrounds.

28 November 2022|CSMC News

Written Artefacts of Nepal

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Nepal's manuscript collections are exceptionally diverse, both in terms of scripts and languages as well as materials used. In short videos, Bidur Bhattarai explains how these collections are preserved. The latest one shows traditional techniques to protect raw clay seals in palm-leaf documents.

22 November 2022|CSMC News

CSMC Announces J.P. Gumbert Dissertation Award 2023

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With the J. P. Gumbert Dissertation Award, the CSMC honours the best doctoral thesis defended in 2022 that contributes to any aspect of the study of manuscripts and other written artefacts. We now welcome nominations.

19 November 2022|CSMC News

Vacant Research Associate Position

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We invite applications for a Research Associate in the project 'Tamilex', which will create the first comprehensive electronic corpus of classical Tamil texts from the first millennium along with a historical dictionary.

18 November 2022|CSMC News

Building the Digital Future of the Past

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In early November, the Joint Scientific Conference admitted eight new consortia to the German National Research Data Infrastructure. Among them is 4Memory, a consortium of historically oriented humanities in which the Cluster of Excellence Understanding Written Artefacts is one of the participants.

16 November 2022|CSMC News

Tamilex: New Academy Project on Classical Tamil Literature

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It is a milestone for classical Tamil studies: In 2023, the long-term project Tamilex will be included in the programme of the Academy of Sciences. Initiated by Eva Wilden, it will create the first comprehensive electronic corpus with a historical dictionary of key texts from the first millennium.

14 November 2022|CSMC News

'Thus speaks Tarām-Kūbi' Wins at Film Festival in Split

7th International Archaeology Film Festival,

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Great success for Vanessa Tubiana-Brun and Cécile Michel: their documentary 'Thus speaks Tarām-Kūbi – Assyrian Correspondence' won the award for best film at the 7th International Archaeology Film Festival in Split.

9 November 2022|CSMC News

Week of AI in Lübeck

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From 1 to 4 November, several institutions in Lübeck hosted the ‘Week of Artificial Intelligence’ for the second time, including a range of events. One of them featured CSMC's Data Linking group, wich introduced our robot colleague Pepper to the visitors.

8 November 2022|CSMC News

Jerusalem: City of the Book

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On 18 December, Benjamin Balint presents his ‘Jerusalem: City of the Book’ at CSMC and Jüdischer Salon. In a conversation with Sebastian Schirrmeister, he will share his forays into the city's libraries and archives and his encounters with the custodians who safeguard Jerusalem’s literary legacies.

3 November 2022|CSMC News

Jonas Karlsson Succesfully Defends PhD Dissertation

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Jonas Karlsson has passed his viva voce examination, thus completing his dissertation project in Ethiopian studies.

2 November 2022|CSMC News

New Faces at CSMC

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At the beginning of November, we welcome new project leaders, research associates, and visiting researchers at CSMC.

25 October 2022|CSMC News

Reassessing Tables Of Content

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Volume 18 of the journal 'manuscript cultures' is out now. Edited by Bruno Reudenbach, the new edition contains the proceedings of the conference 'Indices – Tables of Contents – Registers', held at CSMC in February 2017. Like all previous editions, it is available as open access.

24 October 2022|CSMC News

Mojtaba Mahmoudi Khorandi Succesfully Defends PhD Dissertation

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Mojtaba Mahmoudi Khorandi has passed his viva voce examination, thus completing his dissertation project in archaeometry.

20 October 2022|CSMC News

Recovering Lost Writing

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In a video series recently launched by Universität Hamburg, researchers from the university explain what they are working on and how society at large can benefit from what they do. In the latest episode, Ivan Shevchuk and Kyle Ann Huskin of CSMC show why lost writing isn’t necessarily lost forever.

19 October 2022|CSMC News

New MA Cohort Gets Started

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With the beginning of the winter semester, a new cohort of students has started studying the MA programme ‘Manuscript Cultures’ at the Graduate School of CSMC. The programme is composed equally of modules in the humanities and the natural sciences, which makes it unique in Germany.

18 October 2022|CSMC News

The Digital Lunch Seminar Series is Back

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This winter semester, the CSMC is hosting the Digital Lunch Seminar Series for the second time. Two scholars, one hour, one topic: by bringing together different perspectives, the series brings the idea of cross-disciplinary research to life.

14 October 2022|CSMC News

Change of Spokesperson at the Cluster of Excellence

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Since the beginning of October, the Cluster of Excellence ‘Understanding Written Artefacts’ has a new spokesperson: Konrad Hirschler has taken over from Michael Friedrich, who has officially retired.

12 October 2022|CSMC News

International Conference in Honour of François Déroche

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From 20-21 October, a conference with the title ‘The Pen, the Page, the Book’ will be held in El Escorial, Spain. Organised by Nuria de Castilla and Michael Friedrich, the event takes place in honour of the renowned codicologist and palaeographer François Déroche.

10 October 2022|CSMC News

Vacant Research Associate Position

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We invite applications for a Research Associate in the Cluster's Graduate School. The succesful candidate will be actively engaged in the Research Field 'Inscribing Spaces' or 'Graffiti'.

5 October 2022|CSMC News

Thinking Manuscript Provenance Beyond Europe

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The study of the provenance of manuscripts is of increasing significance. Yet, its focus has often been on European actors. The fall series of the Gotha Manuscript Talks 2022 is devoted to manuscript provenance beyond Europe. It is organised by the Gotha Research Library in cooperation with CSMC.

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