Understanding Written Artefacts (UWA)
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Written Artefacts
Written Artefacts
Events
July 2020
POSTPONED Explorations into Vietnamese Manuscript Culture
Mon, 13.07.2020 8:30 AM until Tue, 14.07.2020 6:30 PM
Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC)
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POSTPONED Explorations into Vietnamese Manuscript Culture
Thu, 16.07.2020 8:30 AM until Fri, 17.07.2020 6:30 PM
Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC)
A workshop hosted by David Holm and To Lang Nguyen
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September 2020
POSTPONED Archives and Archival Practices: Documentary Corpora from the Islamicate World
Fri, 04.09.2020 10:00 AM until 6:00 PM
Centre for the Study of Manuskript Cultures (CSMC)
A workshop by the Cluster of Excellence "Understanding Written Artefacts"
In this workshop we will examine and interpret the traces of archives and archival practices that survive in extant documentary corpora from the pre-modern Islamicate world. We will bring together scholars working with original documents in various languages and scripts (Persian, Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic, Judaeo-Persian) to...
POSTPONED Cultural Codes of Designed Scripts
Wed, 23.09.2020 10:00 AM until Sat, 26.09.2020 6:00 PM
Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC)
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October 2020
Keynote Lecture and opening of the workshop On Letters II The Raqqada Manuscripts: New Perspectives
Thu, 22.10.2020 6:00 PM until 8:00 PM
Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC)
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The Raqqada Manuscripts: New Perspectives
Fri, 23.10.2020 9:00 AM until Sat, 24.10.2020 6:00 PM
Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC)
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November 2020
CSMC Lecture Series: Maps and Colours
Tue, 03.11.2020 4:00 PM until 6:00 PM
Centre for the Study Manuscript Cultures (CSMC)
First session of the CSMC lecture series Maps and Colours, organized by the BMBF project Coloured Maps.
Dr Diana Lange (Hamburg) , Dr Benjamin van der Linde (Hamburg): Understanding hand-coloured maps-or why maps and colours should not be studied separately
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CSMC Lecture Series: Maps and Colours
Tue, 10.11.2020 4:00 PM until 6:00 PM
Centre for the Study Manuscript Cultures (CSMC)
Kam Wing Fung (Hongkong): Colours in East Asian Celestial Charts and Cartographical Maps
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Recipes and Recipe Books Across Manuscript Cultures
Mon, 16.11.2020 9:00 AM until Tue, 17.11.2020 6:00 PM
Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC)
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CSMC Lecture Series: Maps and Colours
Tue, 17.11.2020 4:00 PM until 6:00 PM
Centre for the Study Manuscript Cultures (CSMC)
Dr Peter Zietlow(Hamburg): Identifying colourants - Non- and minimal-invasive analysis of pigments and dyes
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CSMC Lecture Series: Maps and Colours
Tue, 24.11.2020 4:00 PM until 6:00 PM
Centre for the Study Manuscript Cultures (CSMC)
Nick Millea (Oxford): From paint to pixels: pigment analysis on the medieval Gough Map of Great Britain
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POSTPONED Manuscript Albums
Fri, 27.11.2020 12:00 PM until Sat, 28.11.2020 4:00 PM
Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC)
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December 2020
CSMC Lecture Series: Maps and Colours
Tue, 01.12.2020 4:00 PM until 6:00 PM
Centre for the Study Manuscript Cultures (CSMC)
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CSMC Lecture Series: Maps and Colours
Tue, 08.12.2020 4:00 PM until 6:00 PM
Centre for the Study Manuscript Cultures (CSMC)
Jun.-Prof. Dr Hanna Wimmer (Hamburg): 'Till we found a sea of green': Colour in medieval maps
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CSMC Lecture Series: Maps and Colours
Tue, 15.12.2020 4:00 PM until 6:00 PM
Centre for the Study Manuscript Cultures (CSMC)
Dr Nadja Danilenko (Hamburg): Color-coding the Islamic world. How the maps in the Book of Routes and Realms (10th c.) transformed during its transmission
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January 2021
CSMC Lecture Series: Maps and Colours
Tue, 05.01.2021 4:00 PM until 6:00 PM
Centre for the Study Manuscript Cultures (CSMC)
Dr Anna Boroffka (Hamburg): Green pearls and blue waves: On the iconography of water in early colonial maps from Mexico
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CSMC Lecture Series: Maps and Colours
Tue, 12.01.2021 4:00 PM until 6:00 PM
Centre for the Study Manuscript Cultures (CSMC)
Jun.-Prof. Dr Stephanie Zehnle (Kiel): German Paper, Islamic Colours? African Maps of Cameroon
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CSMC Lecture Series: Maps and Colours
Tue, 19.01.2021 4:00 PM until 6:00 PM
Centre for the Study Manuscript Cultures (CSMC)
Drs.Martijn Storms (Leiden): The meaning of colours on early modern property maps
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CSMC Lecture Series: Maps and Colours
Tue, 26.01.2021 4:00 PM until 6:00 PM
Centre for the Study Manuscript Cultures (CSMC)
Juliette Dumasy-Rabineau (Orléans): Colours on French local maps from 14th to 16th century
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May 2021
Tied and Bound”: How to Keep Things Together (or Not?)
Thu, 20.05.2021 2:00 PM until Sat, 22.05.2021 1:00 PM
Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC)
Assuming that ‘codicological units’ exist in whatever manuscript cultures and that they are composed of discrete elements, the issue of cohesion of these elements is a general and even universal one. Every manuscript culture has therefore developed physical devices to keep writing surfaces together and these devices can be generally categorized under binding. Like other features of manuscript...
October 2021
Manuscript Albums: Collecting& Compiling Handwritten Items
Fri, 29.10.2021 12:00 PM until Sat, 30.10.2021 4:00 PM
Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC)
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