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SUMMARY:Forgotten Libraries: Lost\, Dispersed\, and Marginalised Manuscrip
 t Collections
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DESCRIPTION:This workshop brings together scholars working across linguist
 ic traditions\, regions\, and historical periods to reflect on manuscript 
 collections that have been lost\, dispersed\, marginalised\, or rendered i
 nvisible by cataloguing practices\, institutional histories\, displacement
 \, empire\, and changing political or linguistic orders. It asks how such 
 collections can be located\, reconstructed\, and reintegrated into the stu
 dy of manuscript and textual cultures. Across two days\, papers will move 
 between collection-level histories and close attention to individual artef
 acts\, fragments\, catalogues\, ownership marks\, repositories\, and digit
 al data. In doing so\, the workshop explores how manuscripts preserve trac
 es of vanished intellectual worlds\, and how forgotten libraries continue 
 to shape the ways knowledge is produced\, transmitted\, and remembered.\n\
 n\nPlease note venue change for Day 2. \n\n\nDay 1 (16th June 2026)\nMemor
 ial Room\, The Queen’s College\, Oxford\n\n9:00 Welcome\n9:15 Shaahin Pi
 shbin & Clément Salah\, “Introduction to Forgotten Libraries”\n\nSESS
 ION 1: RECONSTRUCTING DISPERSED LIBRARIES\n9:30 Henrike Lähnemann\, “Su
 perfluous precious objects: Reconstructing the manuscript production of th
 e Medingen nuns”\n10:00 Nour Obeid\, “Writers’ Libraries as Houses o
 f Trouble: Fragmentation and Reconstruction in the Arab Region”\n10:30 J
 ames White\, “The Hyperlinked Manuscript: Reading and Bibliography in Se
 venteenth-Century Iran”\n11:00 Coffee Break\n\nSESSION 2: ENDOWMENT\, CO
 MMUNITY\, AND THE FORMATION OF LIBRARIES\n11:30 Judith Olszowy-Schlanger\,
  “Endowment practices and the formation of Jewish libraries in the Islam
 icate world”\n12:00 Ronny Vollandt\, “A Qaraite Library in 11th centur
 y Jerusalem”\n\nLunch Break\n\nSESSION 3: DISPLACEMENT\, EMPIRE\, AND RE
 CONFIGURED COLLECTIONS\n2:00 Hallie Swanson\, “Between Royal Collection 
 and Oriental Repository: The Forgotten Library of Fort William College”\
 n2:30 Gulguncha Lalbekova\, “Imperial Legacies and Displaced Heritage: T
 he Case Study of Badakhshani Ismaili Manuscripts in Russian State Archives
 ”\n3.00 Coffee Break\n\nSESSION 4: MARGINALISED TRADITIONS AND HIDDEN RE
 POSITORIES\n3:30 Balasubramanyam Chandramohan\, “Forgotten Manuscripts: 
 Lost\, Dispersed and Marginalised Manuscripts- a case study of Tamil and T
 elugu Palm-leaf Manuscripts”\n4:00 Udaya Cabral\, “Hidden Knowledge Hu
 bs: Recovering the Neglected Palm-Leaf Manuscript Collections of Sri Lanka
 n Monastic Libraries”\n\n-----------------------------------------------
 -------------------\n\nDay 1 (17th June 2026)\nTaylorian Room 2\, Taylor I
 nstitution\, Oxford\n\nSESSION 5: CATALOGUES\, DATA\, AND THE PRODUCTION O
 F INVISIBILITY\n9:30 Matt Lampitt\, “(Un)Mapping the March: Lost Books\,
  Ghost Data”\n10:00 Sian Witherden\, “Defining ‘Rejected’ and ‘U
 nidentified’ provenance in Medieval Libraries of Great Britain”\n10:30
  Maeve Hagerty\, “Valued at nothing’: Unsettling the (Post)Colonial Ar
 chival History of the Danson Erotica Collection”\n11.00 Coffee Break\n\n
 SESSION 6: LIBRARIES WITHOUT SHELVES: SINGULAR OBJECTS AND DISPERSED WORLD
 S\n11:30 Elisian Ralli\, “A lost library by design: ‘Bibliophilie cré
 atrice’ and the reinvention of the modern manuscript”\n12:00 Thea Gome
 lauri\, “Forced Migration of Rustaveli’s Epic Poem: Bodleian Library M
 S. Wardrop d.27”\n\nLunch Break\n\nSESSION 7: TRACING LOST COLLECTIONS T
 HROUGH FRAGMENTS AND OBJECTS\n2:00 Zoe Screti\, “Finding Life in Fragmen
 ts: The Obfuscation of Autograph Albums in Archive Catalogues”\n2:30 Ana
  Dias & Julia Smith\, “‘The chest of anonymous relics’: Reconstructi
 ng the earliest relic collection of Sens cathedral (France)”\n3.00 Coffe
 e Break\n\nROUNDTABLE AND BROADER PERSPECTIVES\n3.30 Collective discussion
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LOCATION:The Queen's College\, The Queen's College High Street  Oxford Oxf
 ordshire OX1 4AW United Kingdom
SPEAKER:Shaahin Pishbin\, Clément Salah\, Henrike Lähnemann\, Nour Obeid
 \, James White\, Judith Olszowy-Schlanger\, Ronny Vollandt\, Hallie Swanso
 n\, Gulguncha Lalbekova\, Balasubramanyam Chandramohan\, Udaya Cabral\, Ma
 tt Lampitt\, Sian Witherden\, Maeve Hagerty\, Elisian Ralli\, Thea Gomelau
 ri\, Zoe Screti\, Ana Dias\, Julia Smith
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