The College Record 2022
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Reports and <strong>College</strong> Activities<br />
and Tragedy: Armand Schwerner’s Tablets in the archives’; TT <strong>2022</strong> Filippomaria<br />
Pontani ‘More Attic than Athens Itself: Writing poetry in Ancient Greek since the<br />
15th century’.<br />
CMTC festival in celebration of the launch of the journal, Manuscript and<br />
Text Cultures<br />
In celebration of the first three years of the Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures<br />
(CMTC) and the launch of the Centre’s open-access journal with its inaugural<br />
issue—Monumentalization—the Centre held a CMTC festival in Trinity Term <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
Events included a special issue of the Queen’s <strong>College</strong> Symposium (26 April);<br />
the public, formal launch of the journal Manuscript and Text Cultures (Wednesday<br />
11th May); and ‘Unravelling Manuscript Cultures’, at once a public reading of<br />
extracts of premodern poetry in translation accompanied by a display of select<br />
early modern books and premodern manuscripts from different regions and times<br />
(Thursday 12th May).<br />
<strong>The</strong> festival was a huge success and confirmed the importance of the Centre as an<br />
established institution within the University of Oxford. More than 50 members of the<br />
Collegiate University from different faculties and departments attended the launch<br />
of the journal alone, including various Chairs of faculties, members of the senior<br />
administration of the Humanities Division, as well as Heads of houses.<br />
<strong>The</strong> events, launched by a formal address from our Provost, Dr Claire Craig, also<br />
saw the launch of our new website: https://cmtc.queens.ox.ac.uk.<br />
International conference<br />
This year we are holding an international conference, in person and online, on Music<br />
in Manuscript Cultures (8–9 September). <strong>The</strong> interdisciplinary event focused on<br />
the tension between the oral and aural performative elements of music and the<br />
written element in the material context of its preservation and transmission. See the<br />
programme at: https://musmss.org.<br />
<strong>The</strong> papers from the conference will inform volume 5 of the journal, Manuscript and<br />
Text Cultures.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Journal Manuscript and Text Cultures<br />
After the publication of our inaugural issue of Manuscript and Text Cultures (MTC),<br />
the following issues are currently in the making:<br />
Vol. 2: Navigating the text<br />
Vol. 3: Poetic Traditions in Manuscript Cultures<br />
Vol. 4: Writing Orality<br />
Vol. 5: Music in Manuscript Cultures<br />
Vol. 6: Provenance<br />
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