The College Record 2022

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