Zoom link to ‘Maps and Colours’ Lecture series online

22 October 2020, by Webmaster

The virtual ten-part lecture series ‘Maps and Colours’ starts on 3 November 2020 and will be held on Tuesdays from 4.15 to 5.45 pm CET. Go here for the full programme, including times, titles, and speakers. You can sign up for access via Zoom through our registration form.

Please note that recording the lectures is strictly prohibited.

‘Maps and Colours’ examines maps of East Asian and European origin drawn, dyed, and coloured by hand between the fifteenth and twentieth century with a particular focus on the colours and colourants used for their production. In doing so, the project pursues a crossdisciplinary approach to provide novel insights into research areas that have been neglected thus far. These range from the origin, composition, and processing of colour pigments to their function, use, and associated meaning in order to re-trace historical trade routes and to illuminate questions pertaining to regionally specific print traditions, processes, and innovations.

The project is a joint research effort funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and pursued by the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) and the Mineralogical Museum/Center of Natural History (CeNak) as part of Universität Hamburg, the Hanseatic Business Foundation Archive with the Library of Commerce, and the Museum am Rothenbaum, Kulturen und Künste der Welt (MARKK).