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Asien-Orient-Institut UFSP Asien und Europa (2006–2017)

Vortragsreihe (Frühjahrssemester 2014): Cultural Materiality – Concepts at stake in Comparative Manuscript Studies

The manuscript, in its wide variety of forms and physical carriers, is the primary medium of source material for studying the pre-modern world across disciplines and cultures. The existence of shared concepts and methods in the field of manuscript studies suggests the potential of an integrated approach to manuscript traditions in a broader cross-cultural comparative perspective. This lecture series, structured as a set of six lectures concluded by a roundtable discussion, fosters such a comparative perspective by inviting experts on three manuscript traditions (Chinese, Arabic and Hebrew) to address a few key questions in the field of manuscript studies. The main focus of the series will be on the manuscript as a physical object, the interaction and dialogue of its materiality with the written text, the circumstances of its production, reproduction and transmission down through the ages, and on its function and use at different times and places in the history of oral and written communication.

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  • The Text of the Hebrew Bible from the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Medieval Codex

    Dr. Michael Segal,Hebrew University of Jerusalem 26. März 2014, 18:15–20:00 UFSP Asien und Europa, Raum WIE F-07, Wiesenstrasse 7/9, 8008 Zürich

  • Die Hebräische Bibel als schriftgelehrte Traditionsliteratur: Materiale Aspekte ihrer Entstehung

    Prof. Dr. Konrad Schmid,Universität Zürich 9. April 2014, 18:15–20:00 UFSP Asien und Europa, Raum WIE F-07, Wiesenstrasse 7/9, 8008 Zürich

  • Reading Scribal Culture in the Manuscripts of the Cairo Geniza

    Dr. Esther-Miriam Wagner,Woolfe Institute, University of Cambridge 7. Mai 2014, 18:15–20:00 UFSP Asien und Europa, Raum WIE F-07, Wiesenstrasse 7/9, 8008 Zürich

  • On the Media and Malleability of Early Chinese Writings

    Dr. Paul Nicholas Vogt,Universität Heidelberg 15. Mai 2014, 18:15–20:00 UFSP Asien und Europa, Raum WIE F-07, Wiesenstrasse 7/9, 8008 Zürich

  • Moulding the Past: Writing, Text and Memory in Early Chinese Manuscripts

    Rens Krijgsman, PhD candidate,University of Oxford 21. Mai 2014, 18:15–20:00 UFSP Asien und Europa, Raum WIE F-07, Wiesenstrasse 7/9, 8008 Zürich

  • Überall Text: Arabische Dokumente als Quelle zur arabisch-islamischen Textkultur

    Prof. Dr. Andreas Kaplony,Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 5. Juni 2014, 18:15–20:00 UFSP Asien und Europa, Raum WIE F-07, Wiesenstrasse 7/9, 8008 Zürich

  • Final Roundtable

    11. Juni 2014, 14:00–18:00 Universität Zürich Zentrum, KOL E-13, Rämistrasse 71, 8006 Zürich

Die Vorlesungsreihe "Cultural Materiality" wird organisiert von Dr. Lisa Indraccolo, Dr. James Weaver und Phillip Lasater.

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Finanzielle Unterstützung

Die Vortragsreihe wird vom Graduate Campus, dem Zürcher Universitätsverein (ZUNIV) und der Hermann und Marianne Straniak Stiftung finanziell unterstützt.