CSMC News (2020)

We are happy to announce that Dr Andreas Janke, PI at the UWA cluster, starts his interim professorship at the Institute of Historic Musicology today. Dr Janke will maintain a close cooperation with the cluster during this period.

Due to the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) situation, the CSMC will close its doors and shift to home office. We will update about any upcoming events as soon as further information becomes available. Until 30 April all public events at CSMC have been cancelled or postponed indefinitely. 

We welcome Professor Dr Ronny Vollandt as the new Petra Kappert Fellows at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures.

Professor Dr Vollandt teaches Jewish Studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität. He is currently (co-)directing a number of projects dealing with Jewish manuscripts in the...

Due to the Corona virus and at the instruction of the President of Universität Hamburg, we unfortunately must cancel the Grand Opening of the EXC ‘Understanding Written Artefacts’, 27 March 2020. We apologise for any inconveniences.

From 7 to 24 March 2020, the Consulate General of the Republic of Indonesia in Hamburg will host an exhibition of manuscripts of the Toba Batak from North Sumatra. The Consulate General is located at Bebelallee 15, 22299 Hamburg.

This exhibition is organised in cooperation with the Centre for the...

On 6 and 7 March 2020, the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures will host the workshop “Śāradā: Goddess, Learning, Script. On the Sanskrit manuscript culture of Kashmir” at the CSMC, Warburgstraße 26, 20354 Hamburg, Room 0001.

The topics of the papers presented during the workshop will...

On 25 February 2020 from 10 A.M. to 3 P.M., the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures hosts the workshop “Pattern Analysis for Manuscript Research” at the CSMC, Warburgstraße 26, 20354 Hamburg, Room 0001.

The workshop will focus on novel theoretical approaches on pattern analysis for...

On 20–21 February 2020, the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures presents the international workshop titled “By one’s own hand – for one’s own use”. This event will take place at the CSMC, Warburgstraße 26, 20354 Hamburg, Room 0001. Presentations will focus on manuscripts made for the...

From 10 to 14 February 2020, the Winter School on Cuneiform Culture and the Akkadian language will be held at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures in Hamburg, Germany in the form of a one-week intensive introductory workshop. All seminars will be held in English by Prof Dr Dr hc Cécile...

On 14–15 February 2020, the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures hosts the workshop titled “Bridging the Gap. Transmissions of Greek Intellectual Heritage into the Latin West between Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages: The Role of Manuscripts”. The workshop will take place at the CSMC...

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...

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...

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...

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)...

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...