manuSciences ‘15. Franco-German Summer School. Manuscripts. From Fragments to Books – from Identification to Interpretation, Benediktinerinnen-Abtei Frauenwörth, Chiemsee, September 6–12, 2015

Interdisciplinary approaches to manuscript studies combining lectures in history and philology with materials analysis, imaging techniques, digital humanities and computer science, complemented with practical courses on mobile instruments (XRF, RTI) and on computer programs.

Who
Up to 40 (max.) young researchers, from master and Ph.D. students to researchers and university lecturers. Active participation is expected (including poster presentation). The lectures and courses will be in English.

Lecturers (to date)

• Matthieu Bonicel (digitization projects, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, biblissima, Paris, France)
• Leif Glaser (DESY, Hamburg, Germany)
• Daniela Handl (virtual 3D visualization and modelization, Volume Graphics, Heidelberg)
• Verena Lepper (Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz & Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany)
• Heinz-Eberhard Mahnke (Helmholtz-Zentrum/FU Berlin, Topoi, Berlin, Germany) coorganizer
• Christian Müller (Arabic documents, Institut de recherche d’histoire des textes, CNRS, Paris)
• Bernd Neumann (Artificial Intelligence, Universität Hamburg)
• Kathryn Piquette (RTI, Cologne Center for eHumanities, Universität Köln)
• Ira Rabin (XRF, Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung, Berlin)
• Véronique Rouchon (Centre de recherche sur la conservation, Paris, France)
• Judith Schlanger (Medieval Hebrew manuscripts, École pratique des hautes études-Sorbonne, Paris, France)
• Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra (Qumran scrolls, École pratique des hautes études-Sorbonne, Paris, France) coorganizer
• Piotr Targowski (Optical Coherence Tomography, University of Torun, Poland)
• Lior Wolf (Artificial intelligence, Tel Aviv University, Israel)

Financial support available.