LENT TERM 2015: IRAN IN LATE ANTIQUITY *** 23 January: Gabor Kosa, ELTE University (Budapest) Judgement after death: the Manichaean cosmology painting *** 6 February: Special Talk for Friends of AIIT Sam Lieu, Macquarie University (Australia) Between Parthia and Rome – Palmyra and Dura Europos (This event is open to Friends of the Trust only: please book in advance. To book or to become a Friend, please contact the Administrator on info@indiran.org or 01223 356841.) *** 20 February: Vesta Curtis, British Museum The power and purpose of iconography in ancient …
Allchin Memoirs Review in Antiquity Journal, December 2014
Raymond and Bridget Allchin’s early memoirs, From Oxus to Mysore in 1951: the start of a great partnership in Indian scholarship, have been reviewed in the New Book Chronicle in the new issue of Antiquity (December 2014, vol. 88, issue 342), available online and in print Publication details: RAYMOND ALLCHIN & BRIDGET ALLCHIN. From the Oxus to Mysore in 1951: the start of a great partnership in Indian scholarship. xx+316 pages, 31 b&w illustrations. 2012. Kilkerran: Hardinge Simpole; 978-1-84382-221-9 paperback £14.95.
Michael Petraglia on ‘South Asia: Central or Peripheral to the Out of Africa Story’
Friday 5th December, 5.30pm, Professor Michael Petraglia, Co-Director of the Centre for Asian Archaeology, Art & Culture, University of Oxford and Senior Research Fellow, Linacre College will speak on ‘South Asia: Central or Peripheral to the Out of Africa Story’ at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3ER All welcome. This is the keynote lecture of the annual Allchin Symposium on South Asian Archaeology which continues the following day at the Ancient India and Iran Trust, Cambridge. For more information, please see: http://southasianarchaeology.wordpress.com/
Music of the Uzbeks of Northern Afghanistan
Fri 28th November, 5.30pm, Razia Sultanova will screen and discuss her film, Music of the Uzbeks of Northern Afghanistan For the last thirty years the on-going war in Afghanistan has thrown the country into a deep economic, social and cultural crisis. Since the 1970s the country has lived through a number of invasions and conflicts which have brought chaos and turmoil to the daily life of its people. Afghan society is multi-ethnic in its nature: the aim of this 34 minutes film, based on Dr Sultanova’s original video recordings from Northern Afghanistan, …
Sam van Schaikon ‘The Married Monks of Kroraina’
Fri 14th November, 5.30pm, Sam van Schaik of the International Dunhuang Project, British Library, will speak on ‘The Married Monks of Kroraina’ The kingdom of Kroraina flourished in the middle of the Taklamakan desert in the first centuries of this millennium. Among the most important of the discoveries excavated from the kingdom were documents providing a detailed (if incomplete) picture of the daily life of Buddhist monks in the region in the 3rd to 4th centuries, revealing how Buddhism was adapted outside of India during the Gupta period. In this talk, …