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Graduation Ceremony for MA Students
21 August 2024
The Asia-Africa Institute (AAI) at the University of Hamburg honoured all graduates of the classes of 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 with a festive graduation ceremony. Among them were several graduates of the MA programme ‘Manuscript Cultures’, which is offered by the Graduate School of the CSMC.
In addition, several graduates of other disciplines, who received their degree during this ceremony, are now pursuing their own research projects on written artefacts as doctoral students at the CSMC.
Eva Wilden, spokesperson of the AAI and former spokesperson of ‘(Re-)Shaping Written Artefacts’ (Research Field D) at the CSMC, gave the speech from the professorial side; Leonard Bahr, who was presented with his degree certificate in both Manuscript Cultures and Ethiopian Studies, spoke on behalf of the graduates.
The MA programme ‘Manuscript Cultures’ is unique in Germany as it combines modules in the humanities and the natural sciences in its education programme on how to research manuscripts and written artefacts. The modules in the humanities include, among other things, an instruction to the relevant fundamentals of codicology, palaeography, textual criticism, and cataloguing. The modules in the natural sciences cover the relevant basics in physics, chemistry, and biology, and provide an instruction to the theory and methods of scientific materials analysis of manuscripts.
The programme is overseen by Shervin Farridnejad, Head of the MA programme, and Merryl Rebello, the coordinator of the Graduate School at CSMC, who were also present at the graduation ceremony.
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Audience following the ceremony in the main building of the University of Hamburg.
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Leonard Bahr during his speech.
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Dirbwork Bitsu Kassa with her MA degree.
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Joud Nassan Agha, graduate in Islamic Studies and now doctoral researcher at the CSMC, with her MA degree.
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Katerina Grigoriadou, who is now also pursuing a PhD project at the CSMC, with her MA degree.
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Aklilu Amanuel Tecleab with his MA degree.
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Ariff Hafizi bin Mohd Radzi with his MA degree.
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Maanasa Visweswaren with her MA degree in Indology. She is now a doctoral researcher at the CSMC.
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Neela Bhaskar with her MA degree. She has recently completed her PhD at the CSMC.
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Carlos Puga Medina (right) receives his MA degree from Merryl Rebello (left) and Shervin Farridnejad (middle).
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Merryl Rebello (left) congratulates Ilaria Zorzan.
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Rawda El Hajji with her MA degree.
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Yanisa Onchaiya with her MA degree.
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The group of graduates of the MA ‘Manuscript Cultures’ together on stage.
