[with apologies for cross-posting]
Dear Colleagues,
We are delighted to invite you to the upcoming online lecture by
Indra Sengupta, entitled
"From Text to Field. Georg Bühler and the Production of Knowledge in Late-Nineteenth-Century India”. For further information on the talk, please see this
flyer and the
website of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
The lecture will be held
online on 14th December at 17:00 CET. Please register for the event at this
link.
The lecture is the first in a series dedicated to Georg Bühler and organised by the Austrian Academy of Sciences to mark and celebrate the 140th anniversary of his taking up the Chair for Philology and Antiquities of Ancient India at the University of Vienna and his subsequent membership at the Academy. Six lectures will address Bühler’s intellectual legacy and also highlight new research and latest developments in Bühler’s fields of study. Please see below for the other speakers and talks in the series in 2022.
With best wishes,
Nina Mirnig and Hannes Fellner
(Organizers)
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Georg Bühler Lectures
Tuesday, 14th December 2021 | 5 pm CET | Online
Indra Sengupta | German Historical Institute London
From Text to Field. Georg Bühler and the Production of Knowledge in Late-Nineteenth-Century India
Tuesday, 1st March 2022 | 5 pm CET | Hybrid at the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Richard Salomon | University of Washington
Georg Bühler as (a) Father of Modern Indian Epigraphy
Tuesday, 24th May 2022 | 5 pm CET | Hybrid at the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Stephanie Jamison | University of California Los Angeles
What would a Vedic Lawcode Look Like?
Thursday, 10th November 2022 | 5 pm CET | Hybrid at the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Annette Schmiedchen | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Epigraphy and History in the 21st Century 1
Looking Back on 140 Years of Maitraka and Rāṣṭrakūṭa Epigraphy
&
Arlo Griffiths | Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient, Paris
Epigraphy and History in the 21st Century 2
Looking Forward to a Digital Database of South and Southeast Asian Epigraphy
Tuesday, 13th December 2022 | 5 pm CET | Hybrid at the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Diwakar Acharya | Oxford University
Poetic Devices and Compositional Strategies in Indic Epigraphs
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Dr. Nina Mirnig MSt DPhil (Oxon)
Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia
Austrian Academy of Sciences
Hollandstrasse 11–13
A-1020 Vienna
Austria
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https://www.oeaw.ac.at/ikga/team/forschung/mirnig-nina/