The Institute of Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology is once again organising a one-week practical course on current topics and tasks of museums together with the LWL-Freilichtmuseum Detmold, Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Alltagskultur. Participants will gain in-depth insights into the museum as a field of practice, as a place of research, as a collection and educational institution and much more.

The second edition of the Spring School will once again provide students and doctoral candidates with an introduction to digital manuscript research. Experts from Münster, Frankfurt and Basel will give talks on the fields of “accessing”, “editing” and “translating” and provide insights into their research material. In the afternoon blocks, staff from the Service Centre for Digital Humanities will introduce participants to working with TEI. An excursion to the Technical Centre of the NRW State Archive and the LWL Archive Office for Westphalia is planned for one day.

The Atlantic and Indian Oceans, spanning vast distances, are not just bodies of water but conduits of global history. They were spaces of human migration, commodity and idea circulation, technological innovation, and political and social reform during the Modern and Late Modern eras. This spring school will focus on the material dimension of cross-oceanic and global exchanges. The participants will study and discuss these issues together with renowned invited scholars, on the basis of primary sources and introductory readings.

In this workshop for interested students of all semesters and doctoral candidates, we will spend three days exploring three archives located in Münster and presenting the wealth of historical records held there. The core of the workshop will be intensive source work with selected archival documents and digitised material. Central topics of academic work with archive material will also be addressed through keynote speeches and plenary discussions.