Conferences

As an open collaborative platform, CMTC offers its members an opportunity to organize international conferences on subjects related to the Centre’s broad academic vision. Every conference is organized by a separate team, and most conference are eventually developed into separate issues of our peer-reviewed Journal. As an open grass-roots academic initiative, the Centre accepts applications for organization of academic conferences from the associate members who do not have a formal affiliation to Oxford University.

Conferences

PAST EVENTS

Heritage Science and Manuscripts from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
13-14
November
2025
9:30
Shulman Auditorium, The Queen’s College, Oxford

Heritage Science and Manuscripts from Antiquity to the Middle Ages

New directions in the study of written artefacts from Antiquity to the late Middle Ages. Organised by the Crafting Documents project (AHRC-DFG) and co-sponsored by the Centre for Manuscripts and Text Cultures, University of Oxford.


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The Life Cycle of Manuscripts: The Ethics and Practice of Acquiring, Preserving, and Accessing Global Heritage
21-22
September
2024
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

The Life Cycle of Manuscripts: The Ethics and Practice of Acquiring, Preserving, and Accessing Global Heritage

The conference brings together a diverse group of speakers, from the UK, Ireland, Germany, Ukraine, Hungary, and Germany. The aim of this two-day conference is to provide a forum for exchanging ideas, promoting intercultural and interdisciplinary exchange, discussing theories and techniques, comparing case studies, and sharing experiences.


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Articulation of Silence from a Gendered Perspective
26-28
Sept
2023
9:30
Lucina Ho Room, Dickson Poon Building, China Centre

Articulation of Silence from a Gendered Perspective

The conference brings together a diverse group of speakers with the goal of fostering a lively debate on the articulation of silence in text and manuscript cultures in different premodern traditions from gendered perspective.

 

Poetic traditions in manuscript cultures
16 - 17
Sep
2022
13:09
Online Zoom event

Poetic traditions in manuscript cultures

This forum brings together scholars working on different pre-modern cultures interested in the manuscript representation and transmission of early poetry.


Conference website
Music in manuscript cultures
08 - 09
Sep
2022
12:09
Oxford

Music in manuscript cultures

Our inter-disciplinary forum will bring together scholars working on different pre-modern cultures interested in the manuscript representation and transmission of music.


Conference website