Studying Written Artefacts: Challenges and Perspectives
27 September 2023
The Conference Studying Written Artefacts: Challenges and Perspectives (27-29 September 2023, Universität Hamburg) featured
- a panel "Encoding Catalogues: The Beta maṣāḥǝft Experience" organized by Dorothea Reule and Denis Nosnitsin on 27 September 2023, with talks by Alessandro Bausi (Universität Hamburg), The Essential of Cataloguing; Ralph Lee (Oxford Centre for Mission Studies / Institute for Orthodox, Christian Studies, Cambridge), Encoding Catalogues: The EMIP Project; Daria Elagina (Universität Hamburg), William Wright: A Victorian Scholar in the Digital Age.
- a poster session on 28 September 2023, with a poster by Denis Nosnitsin on "Manuscript Making Photographed: Scribes and Their Work as They Appear in Early Photographs from Ethiopia and Eritrea" and by Daria Elavina on "Seals in Ethiopia and Eritrea: New Data and New Approaches".
- papers by Aaron Butts (Universität Hamburg), "Intersections between Philology and Manuscript Studies: An Ethiopic Case
(EMML 1939)", Leah Mascia (Universität Hamburg), "Pseudo-Scripts and Invented Signs: The Ritual Use of Writing in
Greco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt" and "Cultural and Religious Identity in Greco-Roman Egypt: Texts and Paratexts
in a Funerary Context"