- Degree
- Dr phil / Dr rer nat
(depending on the discipline)
- Course location
- Hamburg
- In cooperation with
- 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)
- Teaching language
- • English
- Languages
- All lectures, workshops and colloquia in the curriculum of the doctoral programme are held in English.
- Full-time / part-time
- • full-time
- Programme duration
- 6 semesters
- Beginning
- Only for doctoral programmes: any time
- Additional information on beginning, duration and mode of study
- Rolling admission allows for a flexible beginning of PhD studies. The programme takes three years (six semesters) to complete and is fully taught in presence on campus. We do not offer online or distance learning in the programme. We expect doctoral researchers to be based in Hamburg.
- Application deadline
- New doctoral candidates are recruited through job postings or scholarship postings on our website. The individual application deadline for each doctoral position is announced in the respective posting: https://www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/about/vacant-positions.html (https://www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/about/vacant-positions.html)
- Tuition fees per semester in EUR
- None
- Combined Master's degree / PhD programme
- Yes
- Joint degree / double degree programme
- No
- Description/content
- The doctoral programme is offered at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC), a research institute for the holistic study of handwritten artefacts from the beginning of writing to the present day from all African, Asian and European regions that have produced such artefacts. They are studied in an interdisciplinary setting of a broad range of subjects in the humanities, the natural sciences, and computer science.
Research is currently 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); the Ethics Working Group; Asian Highland Manuscripts; 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
• Ethiopian Studies
• Finno-Ugrian Studies
• German Language and Literature (Theatre Studies)
• Indology/Southeast Asian Studies
• Iranian Studies
• Islamic Studies
• Japanese Studies
• Jewish Philosophy and Religion
• Medieval and Modern History
• Mineralogy
• Musicology
• Physics
• Sinology
• Southeast Asian History
• Tamil Studies
• Thai and Lao Studies
• Turkish Studies
• Vietnamese Studies