NEWS I October 2024
NEWS I October 2024
The two prizewinners Dr Michaela Schauer (left) and Dr Manon Y. Schutz (right).
© Universität Trier

On 25 October 2024, Egyptologist MANON YVONNE SCHUTZ was awarded the Philippika Prize for her outstanding dissertation ‘Sleep, Beds and Death in Ancient Egypt. Studies on the Bed as a Female Entitiy’.  
The Philippika Prize is sponsored by Harrassowitz-Verlag and is awarded for outstanding, interdisciplinary dissertations that transcend disciplinary boundaries in ancient studies.
Manon Schutz completed her doctorate at the University of Trier and is now a research assistant at the Institute of Egyptology and Coptology at the University of Münster.

NEWS I Oktober 2024

Spring School 2025: Digital Manuscript?! Indexing – Editing – Translating

© CSMC_Hamburg

We  – Monnica Klöckener, Nikola Moustakis and Paraskevi Toma  – are once again preparing a spring school ‘Manuscript Cultures’. From 31 March to 3 April 2025, we will approach the topic ‘Digital Manuscripts?!’ in the tried and tested form. Experts from Münster, Hamburg, Frankfurt and Basel have been invited to give lectures on the fields of ‘indexing’, ‘editing’ and ‘translating’ and provide insights into their research material.
In the afternoon blocks, employees of the SCDH (Service Centre for Digital Humanities) will introduce digital tools and methods. An excursion to the Technical Centre of the NRW State Archive and the LWL Archive Office for Westphalia is planned for one day.
Further information will be posted here shortly. Until then, the review of the Spring School 2023 should already arouse interest.

News I Oktober 2024

Eva Baumkamp and Ludger Hiepel re-elected to the Senate

Two members of the GKM-Mittelbau were re-elected to the Senate of the University of Münster: the ancient historian Dr Eva Baumkamp as group spokesperson for the academic staff and the Old Testament scholar Dipl. Theol. Ludger Hiepel as Deputy Chair of the Senate.

The two will hold office for the current election period from 1 October 2024 to 30 September 2026.

We warmly congratulate them on their election!

© KTF I Peter Leßmann

University established a Representative against Anti-Semitism

On June 29, 2023, the Rectorate established the office of a Representative against Anti-Semitism at the University of Münster and appointed Ludger Hiepel to this newly created office. The following event is offered regularly:
HAINDORF-LECTURES - A public evening event in cooperation with the Jewish Community of Münster and the Commissioner for Anti-Semitism Issues of the City of Münster on January 30th.

© Forschungsstelle Asia Minor

Working group "Sealing”

Some members from the Mittelbau have joined together to form the "Sealing" working group. Currently, the members of this group are Nikita Artemov - Dr. Johannes Auenmüller - Dr. Anke Blöbaum - PD Dr. Dirk Mielke - Dr. Nikola Moustakis - Georg Neumann - Torben Schreiber - Dr. Claudia Tappert - Dr. Annik Wüthrich

Publication
The contributions of the workshop have now been published. The publication appeared in 2022 by Zaphon-Verlag in the series Kasion (Volume 7) under the title "Gesiegelt - Versiegelt - Entsiegelt. Siegel(n) als Kulturtechnik".

Project group "Encourage”

Cooperation between GKM, Integration Council and Immigration Office of the City of Münster
Byzantinist Dr. Paraskevi Toma and her husband Dr. Orestis Kazasidis came across a very special book in their home country of Greece: "Ftou Kselypi" ("Spit out the sorrow"). In it, author Marietta Kontou tells the encouraging story of Nour, who escapes the war in Syria. After a true odyssey, she makes it to the Olympic Games as part of the team of refugee athletes thanks to her indomitable will and her talent as a swimmer. The book has since been translated into Arabic.
Inspired by the book, the project group "Encourage" was formed in Münster in 2018 from representatives of the Integration Council, the Foreigners Authority and the University of Münster. Its leading members are: Dr. Orestis Kazasidis, Dr. Nikola Moustakis, Helga Sonntag, Dr. Paraskevi Toma, Jennifer Wahlbring, Dr. Ömer Lütfu Yavuz. They joined forces to bring 500 Arabic copies to Münster in order to distribute them to Arabic-speaking children and young people through targeted campaigns.
In 2021, the book was translated into German by Nikola Moustakis. A Ukrainian translation is currently being worked on.   
The group's aim is to raise awareness of interculturality and multilingualism and to stimulate interaction through events.