Individual Research Projects
Independent Research Projects (IRPs) are specialised disciplinary-oriented projects on doctoral, postdoctoral and professorial levels. They often focus on individual writing cultures, even specific written artefacts.
Tangible Politics
Francesco Feriozzi
Individual Research Project 04
Painting with Inks and Writing with Paints
Hermine Grigoryan
Individual Research Project 05
Urartian Inscribed Metalwork
Ümit Güder
Individual Research Project 06
The Repurposing of Letters and Personal Writings in Medieval Japanese Buddhism
Michael Kinadeter
Individual Research Project 08
Non-destructive Material Profiling of Clay Tablets
Nicole Brisch, Cécile Michel, Boriana Mihailova, Andreas Schropp, and Ena Topalovic
Individual Research Project 09
Beyond Text and Pixels
Hussein Mohammed and Jan-Frederik Stock
Individual Research Project 10
Scribes and Scribal Practices in the ‘Timbuktu Archive’
Susana Molins Lliteras
Individual Research Project 11
Musical Written Artefacts for 18th Century Opera Staging in London
Ivana Rentsch and Leon Battran
Individual Research Project 14
Annotation Practices in German 20th Century Actors’ Scripts
Martin Jörg Schäfer and Madeleine Lauw
Individual Research Project 16
Compiling and Updating Databases of Judicial Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century China
Thies Staack
Individual Research Project 18
Investigation of the Autochthonous Microbiota of Parchment and Identification of Potential Microbial Reasons for Decay
Agnes Weiß and Manuel Pufal
Individual Research Project 19
Dynamics in the Production of Aristotle’s Manuscripts of Ethics, Logic, and Natural Philosophy
Christian Brockmann and José Maksimczuk
Individual Research Project 20
Production, Use and Transmission of Administrative Documents on the Village Level in Late Medieval and Early Modern Japan
Benjamin Schmidt
Individual Research Project 24
The Textual and Material Transmission
Giorgi Kakishvili
Individual Research Project 26
Engraved Identity and Imprinted Validation
Philippe Depreux
Individual Research Project 27
Reading the Scholarly Archive in the Pre-Ottoman Arabic Middle East
Said Aljoumani and Konrad Hirschler
Individual Research Project 01.01
Sheep’s Liver as Written Artifact and the Oracle Lore
Netanael Anor
Individual Research Project 01.02
Copies as Mediation Devices
Vivian Berto de Castro
Individual Research Project 01.03
Archival Practices in Ancient Iraq
Nicole Brisch and Johannes Groß
Individual Research Project 01.04
The Use of Parchment in Arabic Manuscripts of the Early Islamic Centuries
Claudia Colini and Giuseppe Marotta
Individual Research Project 01.05
Mass Spectrometric Proteome Analysis of Written Artefacts
Marina Creydt
Individual Research Project 01.06
Zoroastrian Scribes and Scribal Practices During the Safavid Period (1501–1722)
Shervin Farridnejad and Niloofar Homayoonzad
Individual Research Project 01.07
Knowledge Transformation and Strands of Notation
Stefano Farinella
Individual Research Project 01.08
On the Path of Ioannes Rhosos’ Quill
Katerina Grigoriadou
Individual Research Project 01.09
Measurements of Paper Components
Agnieszka Helman-Ważny, Sylvio Haas, and Małgorzata Grzelec
Individual Research Project 01.11
Reconstructing the Library of Dabra Ḥayq ʾƎsṭifānos
Michael Hensley
Individual Research Project 01.12
Generative AI for Revealing Palimpsests
Mahdi Champour (Jampour)
Individual Research Project 01.13
Prayer, Protection and Plant Medicine
Jannis Kostelnik
Individual Research Project 01.14
Beyond Text
Joud Nassan Agha
Individual Research Project 01.15
Personal Record-keeping among Medieval Islamic Scholars
Benedikt Reier
Individual Research Project 01-16
The Cultural History of Uyghur Literacy in Light of Multilingual and Multiscriptual Manuscripts
Márton Vér
Individual Research Project 01.17
Arabic Music Theory and Music in Manuscripts of the Latin Middle Ages
Christoph Weyer
Individual Research Project 01.18