Meetings 2009-2014

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COMSt Science Meetings

1-3 December 2009, Hamburg: first cross-team conference of the RNP COMST
8 March 2010, London: informal round table Team 5
23-24 July 2010, Hamburg: Workshop Team 3: Digital Support for Manuscript Analysis
22-23 September 2010, Uppsala: Workshop Team 4: Cataloguing Projects of Oriental Manuscripts: Evolution of Descriptive Criteria
25-26 October 2010, Leuven: Workshop Team 2: Textual Criticism of Oriental Manuscripts
26-27 November 2010, Pisa: Workshop Team 1: Book Materials in Oriental Cultures
20 December 2010, Istanbul: Workshop Team 5: Conservation Studies on Oriental Manuscripts
4-5 April 2011, Leiden: Workshop Team 5: Preservation of Middle Eastern Manuscripts
14 June 2011, Frankfurt: Workshop Team 4: Towards an Ideal Handbook Chapter on Manuscript Cataloguing
14-15 October 2011, Nice: Workshop Team 1: The Making of the Oriental Book
8-9 December 2011, Athens: Workshop Team 2: Specific issues in Oriental philology
12 January 2012, Paris: Workshop Team 5: Legal and illegal manuscript trafficking
7-8 June 2012, Copenhagen: Workshop Teams 4 and 3: The electronic revolution? The impact of the digital on cataloguing
5-7 September 2012, Leuven: Workshop Teams 2 and 3: Oriental Textual Traditions and 21st-cent. Philology: New challenges
9-13 October 2012, Arles: Workshops Teams 1+5: The Oriental book. I. The Shaping of the Page, the Scribe and the Illuminator at Work, II. The Making of Oriental Bookbindings and their Conservation .
6-7 June 2013, Athens: Workshop Team 4: Towards a final version of the chapter on cataloguing. Palaeographic descriptions
11-13 July 2013, Hamburg: Joint Workshop Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures / COMST / Ethio-SPARE: The Second(ary) Life of Manuscripts (PDF)
9-10 October 2013, Zakynthos: Workshop Team 5: Multiplicity of Oriental Bookmaking Traditions and Conservation
14-15 October 2013, Berlin: Workshop Teams 2 and 3: Editing the impossible: fragments, palimpsests, multiple recensions ...
18-19 March 2014, Hamburg: Final COMSt Conference

COMSt Editorial meetings

29-30 April 2013, Turin, Team 2+3
18-19 May 2013, Hamburg, Team 5
7 June 2013, Athens, Team 4
8 July 2013, Rome, Team 1
10 October 2013, Zakynthos, Team 5 (w/workshop)
15 October 2013, Berlin, Team 2 (w/workshop)
21-22 October 2013, Jerusalem, Team 1
9 November 2013, Pisa, Editorial Board
20 March 2014, Hamburg, Editorial Board
21 June 2014, Hamburg, Editorial Board

Non-COMSt meetings and conferences

3-4 July 2009, Munich: Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age
24-26 July 2009, Cambridge: Fifth Conference of the Islamic Manuscript Association
7-9 September 2009, Belfast: Digital Resources for the Humanities & Arts - Dynamic Networks of Knowledge and Practice: Contexts, Crises, Futures
22-23 September 2009, Birmingham: Virtual Manuscript Room Workshops
30-31 October 2009, University of Pennsylvania Lex scripta: The Manuscript Book as Witness to the History of Law, 2nd Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age
5-6 November, 2009, Madrid: ENRICH conference
19-21 November 2009, Brussels: Sixth International Conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship
3-5 December 2009, Hamburg: Colophones, of the Manuscript Cultures in Asia and Africa research group
3-5 March 2010, Berlin: Spring school "Digitale Editionen – Methoden und Technologien für Fortgeschrittene" of the Institut fuer Dokumentologie und Editorik
21-23 April 2010, Hamburg: Handschriften- und Textforschung heute, of TEUCHOS
27-29 May 2010, Madrid: Conference on codicology and history of the manuscript in Arabic script (PDF)
7-10 July 2010, London: 2010 Digital Humanities
8-10 July 2010, Cambridge: The Sixth Islamic Manuscript Conference: Central Asian Islamic Manuscripts & Manuscript Collections
16-17 July 2010, Edinburgh: Material Cultures 2010: Technology, Textuality and Transmission
2-6 August 2010, Cambridge: 2010 Introduction to Islamic Codicology Workshop
17-19 August 2010, Uppsala: New techniques for old documents: Scientific examination methods in the service of preservation and book history
7 September 2010, Siena: Seminar La marcatura di documenti, testi ed archivi - Encoding archives - (PDF)
6-7 October 2010, Jerusalem: Workshop Interedition
7-10 October 2010, Hamburg: International Conference "One-Volume Libraries": Composite Manuscripts and Multiple Text Manuscripts
19-21 October 2010, Vienna: SDH 2010 - Supporting the Digital Humanities and NEERI 2010 - Networking Event for the European Research Infrastructures
23 November 2010, Pisa: Workshop Interedition
25-27 November 2010, Pisa: Texts Worth Editing: Seventh Annual Conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship
17-19 December 2010, Addis Ababa: International Conference on Preserving Ancient Manuscripts in Africa
13-15 April 2011, Copenhagen: Care and Conservation of Manuscripts 13
12-14 July 2011, Cambridge: The Seventh Islamic Manuscript Conference: South & South East Asian Islamic Manuscripts
15-16 July 2011, Hamburg: Ecclesiastic Landscape of North Ethiopia: History, Change and Cultural Heritage
July 20-22, 2011, Würzburg, ESF Exploratory Workshop on Digital palaeography
September 5, 2011, London, Digital Resources for Palaeography
September 9, 2011, Cambridge, Text, Image and the Digital Research Environment
September 29-October 1, 2011, Naples, Digital diplomatics
October 14-15, 2011, Saint Louis, Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies
October 21-22, 2011, Philadelphia, 4th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age
15-18 February 2012, Bern: InterNational and InterDisciplinary Aspects of Scholarly Editing
7-9 March 2012, Florence: Workshop Medieval Cultures on the Web. Interoperability Through Text and Manuscript Databases
8-9 March 2012, Copenhagen: Workshop The Arabic Book
2-3 April 2012, Leuven: Methods and means for digital analysis of ancient and medieval texts and manuscripts
23-27 April 2012, London: school in Medieval Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age
9-11 July 2012, Cambridge: Eighth TIMA Conference The Science of Manuscripts; Manuscripts of Science
13-14 July 2012, Hamburg: The Matter of Manuscripts (PDF)
16-22 July 2012, Hamburg: the 2012 Digital Humanities Conference
13-15 September 2012, Verona: The Fourth Meeting on Digital Philology
17-22 September 2012, Rome: Tenth International Congress of Coptic Studies
25-29 September 2012, Rome: conference "Roma e il suo territorio nel medioevo. Le fonti scritte fra tradizione e innovazione" (with a panel on "Oriental and Greek Rome in Manuscript Evidence)
23-30 September 2012, Leipzig: Summer School Islamic Manuscripts
12-13 October 2012, Bologna: workshop Colofoni armeni a confronto
17-19 October 2012, Copenhagen:
17-20 November 2012, Chicago: SBL: Manuscripts from Eastern Christian Traditions
21 November 2012, Paris: workshop Chypre médiévale : entre Byzance, l’Orient et l’Occident
21 November 2012, the Hague: workshop "Using Large-Scale Text Collections for Research: Status and Needs"
22-24 November 2012, Amsterdam: ESTS conference "Editing Fundamentals: Historical and Literary Paradigms in Source Editing"
6-7 December 2012, Naples: 3e Journée d'ètudes SERIES CATALOGORUM
14-17 July 2013, Marburg: Makhtutat and nosakh-e khatti – Research trends and current developments in dealing with manuscripts
16-19 July 2013, University of Nebraska: Digital Humanities 2013
29 July – 3 August 2013, Warsaw: 27th International Congress of Papyrology
2-4 September 2013, Cambridge: the Ninth Islamic Manuscript Conference Manuscripts of the Mamluk Sultanate and its Contemporaries
22-28 September 2013, Hamburg: VIII International Conference on Greek Palaeography (with a COMSt Poster session)
27-28 September 2013, Sydney: Observing the Scribe at Work: Knowledge Transfer and Scribal Professionalism in Pre-Typographic Societies
10-11 October 2013, Hamburg: “Creating Standards: Orthography, Script and Layout in Manuscript Traditions Based on Arabic Alphabet” (PDF)
25-26 October 2013, Hamburg: Reconstructing Space and Time: Localising Manuscripts through Paratexts
14-16 November 2013, Hamburg: Manuscripts and Epigraphy
4-6 December 2013, Hamburg: Natural Sciences and Technology in Manuscript Analysis
19-20 December 2013, London: ATTEMT (Approaches To The Editing of texts with a Multilingual Tradition)
20-22 March 2014, Seattle: Textual Scholarship Across the Disciplines
2-4 April 2014, Copenhagen: Care and Conservation of Manuscripts
8-11 May 2014, Kalamazoo: Conference of Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo Panel The Manuscript in the Digital Age.
20-24 July 2014, Paris: Xth Congress of the European Association for Jewish Studies Jewish and Non-Jewish Cultures in Contact: New Research Perspectives, with a special section on manuscripts on 20 July
31 August - 2 September 2014, Cambridge: The Tenth Islamic Manuscript Association Conference: Manuscripts and Conflict
6 December 2014, Paris: Les spécificités régionale en paléographie: diversifications des écritures dans un même espace culturel (PDF)
10-12 December 2014, Oslo: Bible as Notepad (on biblical and related manuscripts, including Hebrew, Greek, Ethiopic, Syriac)
11-12 December 2014, Paris: Manuscrits chrétiens et islamiques d'Éthiopie
30-31 January 2015, Hamburg: Ordering Knowledge: Structuring, Listing and Shelving Manuscripts (PDF)
30-31 January 2015, Oxford: Syriac intellectual culture in Late Antiquity. Translation, transmission, and influence
25-27 February 2015, Lisbon: international conference Sephardic Book Art of the 15th century
2-5 March 2015, Birmingham: Ninth Birmingham Colloquium on the Textual Criticism of the New Testament
4-6 March 2015, Lisbon:Medieval Manuscripts in Motion 2015
23-27 March 2015, London: Traditions of Papermaking in the Islamic World
22-24 April 2015, Leuven: Arabica sunt, non leguntur... The Bible in Arabic: The Evidence of the Manuscripts
15-16 May 2015, Hamburg: Distinguishing Paratexts from Texts: Orality, Commentaries, Genres (PDF)
18-19 May 2015, London: On the Same Page: Digital Approaches to Hebrew Manuscripts
20-21 May 2015, Edinburgh: Late antique hagiography as literature
26-27 May 2015, Rhetymno: Bibliothèques grecques dans l'Empire ottoman
30 May 2015, New York: Translating the Past, (Re-)shaping History?: Translation Issues in Late Antique and Medieval Christian Historiographical Sources in the Middle East
21-24 June 2015, Washington, DC:The Seventh North American Syriac Symposium
22-24 June 2015, Istanbul: Intensive course: A Holistic Approach to Manuscript Studies
13-15 July 2015, Oxford: 41st ARAM Conference "The River Jordan"
15-16 July 2015, Berlin: Typology - Strategies of Reenactment and Fulfillment in the Milieu of the Qur'an and its Exegesis
20-22 July 2015, Oxford: 42nd ARAM Conference "Religious Offerings and Sacrifices in the Ancient Near East"
20 July-1 August 2015, Goettingen: Summer School in Coptic Studies
28-30 July 2015, York: Translating Christianity: Word, Image, Sound & Object in the Circulation of the Sacred from the Birth of Christ until the present day
10-14 August 2015, Oxford: XVII International Conference on Patristic Studies
24 August 2015, Cambridge: Traces of the Hand from Africa to Asia: A Symposium on the Palaeography of Arabic-Script Languages
2 September 2015, London: DigiPal V: the Phantom Minuscule
4-14 September 2015, Cape Town: Winter Academy - World Scripts: Concepts and Practices of Writing from a Comparative Perspective
7-11 September 2015, Cambridge: Introduction to Islamic Codicology - Short Course
5-7 October 2015, London: Islamic Manuscript Collections in Conflict Zones: Safeguarding Written Heritage (course)
16-17 October 2015, St Louis, MO: 42nd Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies
4-6 November 2015, Leipzig: Altertumswissenschaften in a Digital Age: Egyptology, Papyrology and Beyond (call for papers for young scholars expires 15 September 2015)
19-21 November 2015, Leicester: 12th Annual Conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship
14-16 January 2016, Cairo: The sciences of Islam, between repetition and innovation: what is commenting in Islam? (PDF)
15-17 February 2016, Mainz: Postclassical Greek: the Intersections of Philology and Linguistics (call deadline 1 October 2015, PDF)
18-20 February 2016, Ghent: Holy Hero(in)es. Literary Constructions of Heroism in Late Antique and Early Medieval Hagiography
29 February-2 March 2016, Hamburg: Second International Conference on Natural Sciences and Technology in Manuscript Analysis (call for papers until 27 November 2015)
14-18 March 2016, Berlin: Armenian Manuscript Studies. An Introduction (register within October 2015, PDF)
4-6 July 2016, Oxford: 43rd ARAM Conference "The Arameans" (PDF)
18-20 July 2016, Oxford: 44th ARAM Conference "Ancient Churches of the Levant" (PDF)
3-5 July 2017, Oxford: 45th ARAM Conference "Greek Culture and Interaction in the Levant 4th BC-9th AD" (PDF)
5-7 July 2016, Oxford: 46th ARAM Conference "Syriac Interaction with Greek, Arabic, Armenian and Georgian, 3rd-12th centuries" (PDF)

Region-focused conferences

2-9 November 2009, Florence: The Caucasus: Georgia on the Crossroads. Cultural Exchange across the Europe and Beyond
2-5 November 2009, Addis Ababa: XVII International Conference of Ethiopian Studies (and 6-8 November: VIII Conference of Ethiopian Art)
16-21 July 2012, Malta: XI Symposium Syriacum and IX Conference on Christian Arabic Studies
17-22 September, 2012, Rome: Tenth International Congress of Coptic Studies
29 Oct. - 2 Nov. 2012, Dirre Dawa: 18th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies
15-19 September 2014, St Petersburg: 8th European Conference of Iranian Studies
24-28 August 2015, Warsaw, 19th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, with panels on Ethiopian manuscript tradition
16-18 September 2015, Naples: 15th International Congress of Turkish Art (with the Arts of the Book)

Meetings 2009-2014

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COMSt Editorial meetings

Non-COMSt meetings and conferences

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