[with apologies for cross-posting]
Dear colleagues,
We are delighted to invite you to the upcoming fourth instalment of the Georg Bühler Lecture Series of the Austrian Academy of Sciences featuring Annette Schmiedchen (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) and Arlo Griffiths (Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient, Paris/Jakarta) presenting about:
Epigraphy and History in the 21st Century
Looking Back on 140 Years of Maitraka and Rāṣṭrakūṭa Epigraphy (Annette Schmiedchen)
Looking Forward to a Digital Database of South and Southeast Asian Epigraphy (Arlo Griffiths)
The lecture will be held both in person in Vienna and online this
Thursday 10th November at 17:00 CET. For the program and abstracts, please see
here.
If you are in Vienna, you are very warmly invited; otherwise you may also follow the lecture online. Please kindly register
here.
The lecture series dedicated to Georg Bühler and organised by the Austrian Academy of Sciences marks and celebrates the 140th anniversary of Bühler's taking up the Chair for Philology and Antiquities of Ancient India at the University of Vienna and his subsequent membership at the Austria Academy of Sciences. Six lectures 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.
Best wishes,
Nina Mirnig and Hannes A. 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