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International Conference: The Text and Thought of Early Chinese Manuscripts: Tsinghua Bamboo Slips and Beyond
Wednesday 24 June: Lecture Hall, China Centre, Oxford, OX2 6LU 6 月 24 日（星期三）牛津大学中国中心报告厅 OPENING 开幕式 Chair 主持人 — Prof Dirk Meyer, Director of CMTC 麦笛 9:00–9:15 Prof Dan…
Workshop: Forgotten Libraries – Lost, Dispersed, and Marginalised Manuscript Collections
This workshop brings together scholars working across linguistic traditions, regions, and historical periods to reflect on manuscript collections that have been lost, dispersed, marginalised, or rendered invisible by cataloguing…
Approaching Manuscripts: Perspectives from Arabic and and Chinese Traditions
As part of the 2025–26 Graduate Training Seminar series (Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies), this session brings into conversation scholars working on Arabic and Chinese manuscript traditions…
Termcard — Trinity Term 2026
Unless noted, all meetings are in the Memorial Room, The Queen’s College, 5.15pm 7 May (2nd week) — Global Manuscript and Text Cultures Seminar: Shaahin Pishbin (Queen’s) & Thomas…
Global Manuscript and Text Cultures Seminar (Trinity Term 2026)
On Thursdays in Weeks 2, 5, and 8, from 5:00 to 7:00 pm Memorial Room, The Queen’s College, Oxford The Global Manuscript and Text Cultures Seminar is a new initiative…
The Text and Thought of Early Chinese Manuscripts: Tsinghua Bamboo Slips and Beyond
Dating to the fourth century BCE, the 2500 bamboo slips housed at Tsinghua University rank amongst the most significant global manuscript collections. Containing texts that reflect on a wide…
Call for Papers: Forgotten Libraries: Lost, Dispersed, and Marginalised Manuscript Collections
The Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures (CMTC) is pleased to invite Oxford-based researchers to participate in the workshop Forgotten Libraries to be held at The Queen’s College (Oxford)…
Conference: 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…
Call for Survey Responses: Enabling Digital Research on Manuscript Catalogue Data
On behalf of Sebastian Dows-Miller Call for Survey Responses: Enabling Digital Research on Manuscript Catalogue Data A DiSc-funded project within the Bodleian Libraries is working to transform the Bodleian’s TEI-encoded…