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Reports and College Activities CENTRE FOR MANUSCRIPT AND TEXT CULTURES Dirk Meyer Fellow in Chinese and Director of CMTC Thanks to generous support from the College, the Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures (CMTC) was launched in the academic year of 2018-19 as an inter- and crossdisciplinary research centre for the study of material text cultures and their written artefacts. The Centre builds on, and substantially expands – methodologically and in scope – the activities of the Workshop for Manuscript and Text Cultures (WMTC), which has been running successfully in the College since 2012. The members of Queen’s involved the organisation of the Centre are John Baines (Egyptology), Angus Bowie (Classics), Charles Crowther (Ancient History), Fabienne Heuzé (Sanskrit, John P. Clay Scholar), Christopher Metcalf (Classics), Dirk Meyer (Chinese Philosophy), Selena Wisnom (Sumerian and Akkadian); but we had much help, technical and otherwise, from colleagues in Oxford and elsewhere. ‘Manuscript and Text Cultures’ describes a phenomenon that begins when written documents start to circulate more widely and knowledge transmission becomes increasingly text-centred and no longer a predominantly oral exercise. The Centre offers a platform for both established scholars and research students engaged in the recovery, decipherment and interpretation of texts from a broad range of premodern cultures across the globe in which this phenomenon can be observed. Our activities are designed to enable scholars to share their experiences and develop new, collaborative research topics across disciplinary boundaries. The Centre combines traditional approaches, such as philology, epigraphy and papyrology, with new methodologies inspired by communication theory, information science, philosophy, and other disciplines, so as to generate a common language for the study of the material conditions of meaning production and memory across time and space. Its interdisciplinary approach sets out to drive our understanding of processes underlying human creation of knowledge and meaning in new ways with clarity and rigour. In this way the Centre hopes to enable informed debate across subject boundaries and to contribute to shaping an emerging field of enquiry into the material factors of knowledge production in literate societies. 56 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020
Since we launched the Centre it has gained in international visibility, and its activities have expanded to include new partners. A Memorandum of Understanding was signed last year with the Jao Tsung-I Academy (JAS), Hong Kong Baptist University, to promote scholarly exchange and research collaborations between the two centres over the next five years. We also completed the international competitions for the designs of the Centre’s logo and journal, Manuscript and Text Cultures. Reports and College Activities Signing ceremony for the Memorandum of Understanding between CMTC and JAS in November 2019 The academic year 2019-20 was an exciting albeit sometimes challenging year for the Centre. Owing to the epidemic we had to cancel our activities for the latter half of Trinity term. A. Lunchtime colloquia As part of the Centre’s activities we hold twice-termly lunchtime colloquia (in weeks 2 and 4) with two speakers each. The colloquia are designed to give research students and early career scholars working on different aspects of manuscript and text cultures in literate societies the opportunity to present their work at an academic event outside their usual department, and to receive critical yet supportive comments by specialists working on related questions in different fields: www.queens.ox.ac.uk/lunchtime-colloquia. B. Workshops Central to our activities are our oncetermly workshops. At these events leading local and international scholars present a research paper, followed by long and intense discussions. Speakers in the last academic year were Dr Stewart Brookes (Oxford) in MT19, who read ‘Hebrew palaeography and iconography Japanese scroll from the Edo period from a computer-assisted perspective’; and Professor Peter Kornicki (Cambridge) in HT20 who read a paper on ‘Keeping knowledge secret in Edo Japan (1600–1868)’. The TT20 paper had to cancelled owing to the pandemic: www.queens.ox.ac.uk/workshops. College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 57
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