University of Heidelberg

Lecture Series 2009/10: Abstracts | Programme | Speakers | Archive

All lectures will be held at:

Karl Jaspers Center, Voßstraße 2, Conference Room 212, 6 to 8 pm  

Oct 15, 2009
Nicholas Thomas (Cambridge): "Maori Carving and Colonial History"
 
Oct 29, 2009
Marina Warner: "Riding the Carpet: Talismans and Toys in the 1001 Nights"

Nov 05, 2009
Michael Stolz (Berne): "Oriental 'Spolia' in Wolfram's 'Parzival' and its Manuscript Tradition"

Nov 26, 2009
Lisa Monnas: "Flight of the Phoenix. The Impact of Mongol Silks in Europe"

Dec 03, 2009
Larry Silver (Philadelphia): "India Ink. Imagery of the Subcontinent in Sixteenth-Century Europe"

Dec 10, 2009
Thomas Leisten (Princeton): "The After-Life and Disappearance of Pictorial Programmes of Classical Antiquity during the Early Islamic Period"

Jan 07, 2010
Toshio Watanabe (London): "Modern Japanese Garden in a Transnational Context"

Jan 14, 2010
David J. Roxburgh (Harvard): "Artistic Exchange Between the Timurid and Ming Dynasties"

Jan 21, 2010
Charles Burnett (London): "Musical Instruments as Conveyors of Meaning from One Culture to Another"

Jan 28, 2010
Timon Screech (London): "Export Items of the English East India Company"
  

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