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Call for Papers: Text-Image Relationship and Visual Elements in written Hebrew Sources ...
10. February 2013

... from the Middle Ages to Early Modern Periodfrom the Middle Ages to Early Modern Period

The conference invites advanced scholars, post-doctorate and doctorate students to focus on Text-Image relationship, visual effects and designed elements in written Hebrew sources such as codices, tombstones, ritual objects from the eighth century to the end of the fifteenth century, marking the end of the non-typographical Era. The focus of this conference lies on all kinds of illustrations, images, decorations, schemes and additional drawings, as well as all visual elements that structure the written entity and guide the eyes of the user through its specific layout, mise en page and mise en texte of manuscripts. The conference wants to investigate visual effects and designed elements not only from an art history perspective, as it is generally done, but also from the philological, historical and material culture‘s  viewpoint. Designed elements seem toappear at the crossroad of cultural transmissions, traditions or influences. The conference will take into account the influence or rejection of cultural traditions from non-Jewish environments, and will, therefore, give room to present results from other co-projects working in the SFB 933 of Heidelberg University.

Topics / Questions to be dealt with: 

  • What kind of connection exist between text and its visual aspects? Are the visual and designed elements purely decorative, symbolic or do they bear any philological meaning? 
  • In which way does the scribal material influence the drawing or script?
  • How can philological and art historical results be linked to socio-historical questions?
  • How do visual / designed elements mirror the mental state of a certain group in a specific environment, turning itself or not to a cross-cultural element (from minor and major cultures)?
  • How were the texts read? Was the drawing / image considered as part of a textual more than an artistic tradition? What can be said about the (ritual, social) function of designed elements?
  • Are there specific layouts to be made out in Hebrew Sources?

Deadline for paper proposals : April 30th, 2013

Title and abstracts of c. 300 words should be forwarded to Elodie Attia (elodie.attia@hfjs.uni-heidelberg.de) and Kay Joe Petzold (wm9@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de).

Time and Place:

10.-13. November 2013
Hochschule für Jüdische Studien, Heidelberg, Germany

Supported by:

  • University of Heidelberg, SFB 933 Materiale Textkulturen.
  • Hochschule für Jüdische Studien, Heidelberg.

 

Call for Papers: Materielle Kulturforschung – eine Zwischenbilanz. Zum epistemischen Gewinn einer vermeintlich neuen Perspektive
4. March 2013

Die Tagung findet von 05. bis 07. 12. 2013 in Gotha statt. Alle Informationen zur Tagung sowie zur Einreichung von Themenvorschlägen finden Sie hier.

SFB-Mitarbeiter Dr. Rodney Ast lanciert PapPal, eine Online-Datenbank antiker Schriften
11. March 2013

We are pleased to announce the launch of PapPal, an online resource for the study of ancient paleography.  The site currently gathers thumbnail images of over 2500 dated Greek documentary papyri from collections around the world, which can be displayed either in gallery or slideshow mode. Links direct users to full images and further information at the host sites and to metadata and transcriptions at papyri.info. At the moment, there are only a handful of ostraka included. In the coming months there will be more of them, as well as dated Latin documents.

Work on this project has been made possible by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in the context of the University of Heidelberg's Collaborative Research Center 933. Material Text Cultures: Materiality and the Presence of Writing in Non-Typographic Societies, with further support from the Institute for Papyrology.

Ernennung von SFB-Mitarbeiterin Prof. Dr. Melanie Trede zum Mitglied der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
21. February 2013

Prof. Dr. Melanie Trede wurde am 30. November 2012  als Ordentliches Mitglied in die Geisteswissenschaftliche Klasse der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften gewählt. Zum Mitglied kann berufen werden, wer sich durch herausragende wissenschaftliche Leistungen ausgezeichnet hat. In der Begründung zur Wahl von Prof. Trede heißt es: „Indem sie übergreifende Fragen wie das Wiederaufleben antiker Mythen in Bildern der Moderne als wesentlichen Bestandteil der Nationenkonstruktion untersucht, gelingt es ihr, japanische Themen in die Diskussion der europäischen Kunstgeschichte einzubinden.“
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Ernennung von SFB-Mitarbeiterin Prof. Dr. Hanna Liss für AcademiaNet
12. February 2013

AcademiaNet, eine Initiative der Robert-Bosch-Stiftung, versammelt herausragende Wissenschaftler. SFB-Mitarbeiterin Prof. Dr. Hanna Liss, Inhaberin des Lehrstuhls "Bibel und Jüdische Bibelauslegung" an der Hochschule für Jüdische Studien, Heidelberg, wurde jüngst von der DFG für das Netzwerk ernannt. Ihr Profil finden Sie hier.

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Goals and Central Ideas

The principle goals of the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 933 "Material Text Cultures" are generating extensive primary research, and documenting and analysing sources relevant to those questions explored by the disciplines involved; further developing the content, epistemology and methodology in the text-interpretative field of historical cultural studies, and fostering the various subject areas over the long-term on a strong structural basis by means of a transdisciplinary, cultural theoretical approach. Read further

Contribution in the web-radioCampus Report of the Heidelberg University.

 

Jahreskonferenz 2013 in Kooperation mit dem Literaturarchiv Marbach

Wissen in materialen Textkulturen: Zum epistemischen Status von Geschriebenem in vergangenen und heutigen Gesellschaften

Im interdisziplinären Symposium des SFB und des Deutschen Literaturarchivs Marbach soll der Vorstoß der Material Culture Studies aufgegriffen und auf den Prüfstand gestellt werden. Aktuelle Tendenzen der Wissenschaftstheorie werden nach ihrer Übertragbarkeit auf die gegenwärtige geisteswissenschaftliche Forschung befragt: Welche Denkanstöße lassen sich gewinnen? Wie lässt sich die epistemische Situation im Archiv bzw.in der Forschungspraxis historischer Kulturwissenschaften begreifen und welchen epistemischen Status nehmen die überlieferten Materialien ein? Dies alles unter Berücksichtigung der speziellen Problematik der epistemischen Operativität schrifttragender Artefakte.

Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach – 13. / 14. Juni 2013 – Tagungsbereich

 

 

Current Job Vacancies

Current vacancies can be found here.

Material Text Culture Research Fellowships

The CRC 933 will award Research Fellowships to excellent junior academics to investigate in the field of material text cultures. The Material Text Culture Research Fellowships aims to recruit excellent postdocs. Candidates from all pertinent fields of research who have completed their doctoral studies with outstanding results may apply.

Candidates must present an independent research project related to material text cultures as part of their application. Read further

 

The Integrated Graduate School Textual Anthropology

Is dedicated to fostering up-and-coming scholars in the field of text-based historical cultural studies.

As such we attach great importance to closely interweaving sub-projects and research questions throughout the CRC. The aim is to develop two kinds of expertise: specialised skills in handling sources and methods, and skills in the field of cultural theory and cultural sociology together with methodology and epistemology for cultural studies. Read further

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