At the conclusion of the research project Lying Pen of Scribes (2019-2024), we are happy to organize an international symposium fully dedicated to recent discoveries in the vast world of manuscript studies. We invite you to contribute to a 3-day immersion into state-of-the-art topics such as:
Findings and reflections related to the Dead Sea Scrolls, their provenance, reception, and authenticity
Materiality of ancient manuscripts, their facsimiles, and their publication
Digitization and archiving of manuscript collections
Access challenges
Capture, processing, visualization, and scientific analysis of color and spectral images
The use of artificial intelligence in deciphering ancient texts
Digital representations and physical reproductions for knowledge production
We welcome short contributions in the form of extended abstracts accompanied by a summary illustration (max. 2 pages or 500 words, including references). Accepted works will be invited as oral talks. The book of abstracts will be shared with the symposium participants, and it will be made publicly available on Zenodo repository. Original and ex-novo contributions are welcome, but not required, and commentaries/ extensions of previously published works are allowed.
Recovering lost content in ancient manuscripts with multi-spectral and xray fluorescence imaging
14:30 - 15:00
Coffee break
15:00 - 17:00
Paper session 1
Hend Mahgoub, Patrick Layton, et al., Non-destructive dating of historical archival materials with infrared spectroscopy.
Roxanne Radpour, M. Wiggins, et al., Material insights and artist working methods from multi-modal imaging spectroscopy studies of Visconti-Sforza tarocchi playing cards.
15 minutes break
Ottar A. B. Anderson, New developments in the technical metadata framework for cultural heritage imaging.
Eric Joakim, Automated multispectral imaging in multiband and narrow band and statistical analysis in one system to reveal the invisible.”
19:00
Dinner
Thursday, 5 December 2024
09:00 - 10:00
Keynote Talk 2: Hilda Deborah:
“Chasing wild goats: Challenges, values, and opportunities of interdisciplinary work”
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee break
10:30 - 12:25
Paper session 2
Jitka Neoralová, Andrei Kazanskii, and Petra Vávrová, History and present of multispectral imaging in the National Library of the Czech Republic.
Þorgeir Sigurðsson, Lying pens of Iceland — (Re)-imag(in)ing a pre-saga literary genre.
15 minutes break
Tommy Wasserman, The text and paratexts of Empress Theodora’s Gospel Codex (St Petersburg Ф. № 906 /Gr. 53).
Ludvik A. Kjeldsberg, From Scrolls to Screens: Crafting Online Open-Access Databases of Dead Sea Scrolls and their Reception.
12:25 - 13:30
Lunch
13:30 - 14:30
Keynote Talk 3: Maruf Dhali
Artificial intelligence in historical manuscript analysis
14:30 - 15:00
Coffee break
15:00 - 16:15
Paper session 3
Muhammad A. Khawaja, Sony George, et al., Reimagining manuscript analysis: Virtual RTI and algorithmic post-processing on ancient Egyptian inscriptions.
Tabita L. Tobing and Patrick Bours, Building blocks approach to character-level writer authentication system of ancient manuscripts.
Valentina Risdonne, Rachel Boyd, and Lucia Burgio, Non-invasive analytical study of a V&A Madonna and Child drawing.
Friday, 6 December 2024
09:00 - 10:00
Keynote Talk 4: Hugo Lundhaug
Manuscripts and literary imagination: Material philology, digital humanities,
and the biblical storyworld in Coptic
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:20
Paper session 4
Estelle Guéville, Manuscript collections and inclusivity: Making premodern female scribes' production accessible.
Matthew P. Monger, (re-)Imagining a corpus of scrolls. The Dead Sea Scrolls physical and scribal features database.
11:20 - 12:10
Keynote Talk 5: Årstein Justnes
Ten Years with the Lying Pen of Scribes: What Did We Learn?
12:10
Lunch
NO CHANGE
NO CHANGE Training School
The participants in the symposium will be offered free registration to a training school on spectral imaging and advanced digitization of cultural heritage objects, that will take place just before the main event, between 2 and 4 December. Please find more information here.
