University of Heidelberg

Ebba Koch, University of Vienna "Solomonic Angels in a Mughal Sky"     

June 30, 2011, 06:00 pm to 08:00 pm  -   Poster Pdf       

Ebba Koch, an art and architectural historian and professor at the Institute of Art History in Vienna, Austria has spent much of her professional life studying the architecture, art, and culture of the Mogul Empire. She will open the symposium “Spirits in Transcultural Skies” with a lecture on “Solomonic Angels in Mughal Sky”.                     

Workshop: Spirits in Transcultural Skies.     

July 1^st, 2011, 09.00am to 06.00pm -  Flyer Pdf  /   Poster Pdf    

Workshop on essentially auspicious and protective winged spirits that populate artefacts and architecture on their travels between east and west.

• Workshop: "Concepts of Authenticity in Architectural Heritage Preservation", 16 June 2008  
• Workshop "The Authenticity of Ruins in a Transcultural Perspective", 22 October 2009
• "The Authenticity of Ruins in a Transcultural Perspective" - Round Table at the India International Centre in Delhi, 16 November 2009  

• Fieldwork, 17-18 June 2008
• Fieldwork "The Authenticity of Ruins - A Legacy of War", 12-18 October 2009  
• Site Visits and Meeting of Experts in Heritage Preservation in Delhi, November 2009  

• "The Spirit of the Architecture versus Material Authenticity. The Conservation of Humayun´s Tomb in Delhi", India, 14 th November 2009

• Film Screening: "Aspects of Authenticity in the Cyclical Rebuilding of the Ise Shrine in Japan" by Dr. Christoph Henrichsen, 31 st January 2011      Poster Pdf