CSMC News (2020)

On 30 January 2020 at 6 P.M., Prof Dr Lorenz Korn of the Otto-Friedrich Universität Bamberg will give a lecture titled “Patronage and Religious Politics: Epigraphic programmes in mosques of the Saljuq period in Iran (11th-12th cent.)”. The event will be held in Room 0001 at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, Warburgstraße 26, 20354...

On 16 January 2020 at 6 P.M., Prof Jens Peter Laut of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen will give a lecture titled “Maitrisimit and Daśakarmapathāvadānamālā: Indian Buddhist Texts in the guise of Old Turkic manuscripts” that will take place in Room 0001 at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, Warburgstraße 26, 20354 Hamburg.

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On 28 January 2020 from 1:30 P.M to 5 P.M., the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures will host the hands-on workshop titled “Writing Torah Scrolls” to take place at Warburgstraße 28, 20354 Hamburg, 3rd floor conference room.

The workshop will be held by the Torah scribe Mark Farnadi-Jerusálmi and Prof Dr Ira Rabin (CSMC and BAM –...

On 7–8 and 9–18 February 2020, the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures presents the basic plus advanced workshop “Care and Conservation of Manuscripts and Artefacts” at the Āśā Archives, Kulambhulu, Kathmandu, Nepal. This event is organized in cooperation with Āśā Saphūkuthi (Āśā Archives) and Hill Museum & Manuscript Library, USA (HMML).

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The 2020 edition of the Graduate Student Conference on Chinese Manuscript Culture is co-organized by the École française d'Extrême-Orient (Paris), the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (Universität Hamburg), and the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (University of Cambridge). The event will be held on 13 January 2020 at the...