Starting on 7 NovemberThe Digital Lunch Seminar Series is Back

18 October 2022

Photo: Karsten Helmholz

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.

Spending your lunch break in front of the screen is usually not a good idea. On four Mondays from November to January, however, this is different: the Digital Lunch Seminar Series is back. In easily digestible bites, two scientists from CSMC deliver a one-hour presentation of a joint research topic. What’s special about this format is that the pairs are made up of disciplines that usually rarely collaborate. The talks thus exemplify how scientists from over 40 disciplines from the humanities, natural sciences, and computer sciences at CSMC work together on the holistic study of written artefacts.

The start of the second season is on 7 November when Marina Creydt and Stephan Seifert explain how the chemical analysis of proteins and metabolites provides information about the biological identity of and natural or anthropogenic influences on ancient written artefacts. Three weeks later, on 28 November, José Pablo Maksimczuk and Olivier Bonnerot discuss what we can learn from the analyses of inks used for a 15th-century manuscript of the Organon, Aristotle’s treatises on logic. On 12 December, Kaja Harter-Uibopuu and Boriana Mihailova present inscribed gems from the collection of the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, to highlight the potential of the holistic study of rock-based written artefacts. Finally, on 23 January, Agnieszka Helman-Wazny and Hussein Adnan Mohammed employ numerous Tibetan written artefacts to show how visual pattern analysis can help us to better understand when, were, and by whom they were produced.

The schedule as well as all abstracts and more information about the contributors and how to register is available on the event's website. All lectures will be held on Zoom.