Apply by 15 NovemberAnnouncing the J.P. Gumbert Dissertation Award 2024

12 September 2024

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With the J. P. Gumbert Dissertation Award 2024, the CSMC honours the best doctoral thesis defended between 1 January 2023 and 31 August 2024 that contributes to any aspect of the study of manuscripts and other written artefacts. We now welcome nominations!

We are pleased to announce the fourth edition of the J. P. Gumbert Dissertation Award. The successful dissertation contributes to any aspect of the study of manuscripts and other written artefacts from fields such as art history, history, codicology, epigraphy, material sciences, palaeography, or philology. Its research focus can be on any period or region. Included in the award is a prize money of 5,000 Euro and fellowship for a research stay at CSMC.

The award was launched in 2021. Last year, the winners were Daria Kohler (‘Publication’, papyri, and literary texts: process and presentation) and Elif Sezer (A Manuscript Community in Ottoman Istanbul (18th-19th Centuries): Heroic Stories, Social Profiles, and Reading Space).

Johan Peter Gumbert (1936–2016) was Professor and Professor Emeritus of Western Palaeography and Codicology at Leiden University from 1979 to 2001, and an expert on Latin and Dutch manuscripts. As a frequent guest at the University of Hamburg, he was associated with the CSMC from its very beginning as well as with the COMSt-Network (Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies).

More information on the conditions of the award and how to make a nomination is available here. The deadline for nominations is Friday, 15 November 2024, 12:00 pm CET.