Lecture Series: Philosophy by Hand II

30 October 2025

Photo: Carolina Lehan/HEPMASITE

The HEPMASITE project would like to invite you to the second part of its lecture series "Philosophy by Hand" which takes place between November 2025 and July 2026.

Building on the experience of the first part of the lecture series "Philosophy by Hand," the second part aims at widening the theoretical and geographical scope by adopting a more global perspective and deepening methodological questions. The focus of the series will continue to be the interaction between manuscript cultures and philosophical thought and will include a wider number of traditions and languages.

Convenors

• Yoav Meyrav (University of Hamburg)
• Hanna Gentili (University of Hamburg)
• José Maksimczuk (University of Hamburg)

Programme

6 November 2025 | 17:15–18:45 CET
Roundtable Discussion: World Philosophies, Materiality, and Challenging the Canon
Sabrina Ebbersmeyer (University of Copenhagen), Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Mariken Teeuwen (Leiden University), Moderator: Yoav Meyrav (University of Hamburg)

16 December 2025 | 17:15–18:45 CET
Philosophising by Hand? Manuscripts and Print in Song Neo-Confucianism (11th–12th Centuries)
Michael Friedrich (University of Hamburg)

14 January 2026 | 17:15–18:45 CET
The Reading Mind: Practices of Annotation and the Historiography of Medieval Philosophy
Mario Meliadò (University of Siegen)

21 April 2026 | 17:15–18:45 CET
Samuel Ibn Tibbon’s Notes on His Translation of Maimonides’ Guide for the Perplexed
Carlos Fraenkel (McGill University)

19 May 2026 | 17:15–18:45 CET
Philosophy by Hand or Mouth-to-Ear Philosophy? Philosophy in Oral Traditions
Anke Graness (University of Hildesheim)

9 June 2026 | 17:15–18:45 CET
Reading, Writing, Philosophising in Medieval India
Isabelle Ratié (Sorbonne Nouvelle University)

14 July 2026 | 17:15–18:45
Don’t Look Back in Anger: Reconsidering Appropriation of Past Philosophy
Yael Gazit (Tel Aviv University)

Venue 
in person and online
Institute for Jewish Studies

Please contact the HEPMASITE project for registration and further information: hepmasite-reli@uni-hamburg.de

Programme: PDF download