Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung), German Electron Synchrotron (DESY Deutsches Elektronen-Synchroton), Hamburg University of Technology (TU Hamburg), Helmut Schmidt University of the German Federal Army (Helmut-Schmidt-Universität der Bundeswehr), Institute of Information Systems at the University of Lübeck, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (Universitätsklinikum Eppendorf)
All lectures, workshops and colloquia in the curriculum of the doctoral programme are held in English.
New doctoral candidates are recruited through job postings at the "Understanding Written Artefacts" Cluster of Excellence. The individual application deadline for each doctoral position is announced in the posting: https://www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/about/vacant-positions.html
The doctoral programme is part of the "Understanding Written Artefacts – Material, Interaction and Transmission in Manuscript Cultures" Cluster of Excellence, which seeks to develop a global framework for the study of all written artefacts from the beginning of writing to the present day and from all African, Asian and European regions that have produced such artefacts.
Written artefacts are examined in an interdisciplinary setting of a broad range of subjects from the humanities, the natural sciences, computer science, and cognitive psychology (see list below).
Research is organised thematically in eleven research fields:
Artefact Profiling, Inscribing Spaces, Creating Originals, (Re-)Shaping Written Artefacts, Archiving Artefacts, Data Linking, Keeping Note(book)s, Exploring Multilingual Written Artefacts, Formatting Multigraphic Artefacts, Situating Graffiti, Selecting Materials
as well as six working groups:
The Palm-Leaf Manuscript Profiling Initiative; Theory and Terminology (TNT); Facing New Technologies (FNT); Asian Highland Manuscripts; Ethics Working Group; Permanent Seminar on Manuscript Analysis, Description, and Documentation
Participating disciplines include:
- African Languages and Linguistics
- Ancient History
- Archaeometry
- Art History
- Assyriology
- Austronesian Studies
- Biology
- Chemistry
- Classical Archaeology
- Computer Science
- Coptology
- Cultural Anthropology
- Ethiopian Studies
- Experimental Psychology
- Finno-Ugrian Studies
- German Language and Literature (Theatre Studies)
- Church History
- Indology/Southeast Asian Studies
- Iranian Studies
- Islamic Studies
- Japanese Studies
- Jewish Philosophy and Religion
- Medieval and Modern History
- Mineralogy
- Musicology
- Performance Studies
- Physics
- Radiology
- Sinology
- Southeast Asian History
- Tamil Studies
- Thai and Lao Studies
- Turkish Studies
- Vietnamese Studies
- Zoology