CSMC launches Digital Lunch Seminar SeriesResearch for Lunch

23 March 2022

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This April, CSMC will launch the Digital Lunch Seminar Series. Covering a broad range of topics, each session will feature a pair of researchers from different disciplines who will share insights on clay tablets, palm leaf manuscripts, Tibetan Maps, and the DNA of written artefacts.

What secrets can be found inside Mesopotamian clay envelops that have been sealed for thousands of years? What can palm leaf manuscripts tell us about the intellectual history of South and Central Asia? What can we learn from the materials used for producing Tibetan maps? And how can DNA analyses unravel the history of a written artefact?

Researchers at CSMC explore a broad variety of topics. Often, it is the combination of insights from the humanities and approaches from the natural sciences that enables new perspectives on and a more profound understanding cultural-historical phenomena. The new Digital Lunch Seminar Series, which will be launched this April, gives concrete examples to show how fruitful the collaboration between different disciplines can be. In each session, a pair of researchers with different backgrounds will share insights from their joint projects.

The series contains all the ingredients for an interesting lunch break: on four Mondays, one per month, the lectures take place digitally from 12 pm to 1 pm. After a short introduction to the topic, each session will begin with two 20-minute presentations by the speakers, followed by Q&A.

Anyone who would like to attend the Digital Lunch Seminar Series is welcome. You can register via this link (you only need to register once to attend all sessions of the series).