May 4, 2025
Hamburg, April 11, 2025 – The Digital Repository of Endangered and Affected Manuscripts in Southeast Asia (DREAMSEA) has marked the successful completion of its initial seven-year program. This significant endeavor is a collaborative effort between PPIM Jakarta and the CSMC at the University of Hamburg, made possible by the generous support of the Arcadia Fund. The event served as a platform to showcase the program’s diverse achievements, present a comprehensive evaluation, and outline the vision for its upcoming second phase. These insights were shared directly by Principal Investigators Professor Oman Fathurahman and Professor Jan van der Putten, alongside Assistant PI […]
June 2, 2020
Dr Dick van der Meij, DREAMSEA’s Academic Advisor and Liaison Officer was invited to deliver a lecture during the International Symposium on Royal Attire and Civilization at the Royal Ambarrukmo Hotel in Yogyakarta from 9-10 March 2020. He delivered his lecture entitled “Illustrated Manuscripts from Yogyakarta and the Attire the Figures on the Illustrations Wear” on 9 March. He presented some of the results and the questions that came up during his philological investigation of the figures and their attire as found in illustrations in a number of manuscripts from Central Java preserved in collections in Berlin and Leiden. At […]