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09-03-05, 06:13
The Uighurs
1500 years of cultural diversity and development

Friday, 18th March 2005
10.00 a.m. . 17.00 p.m.

A study day organised by the Royal Asiatic Society to be held at: Goodenough College
Mecklenburgh Square
London WC1

Morning Session

10.00-10.30 Registration, Coffee

10.30-11.05 Mr. Christian Tyler, Author, Independent Scholar
The lost Turks of China


11.05-11.40
Dr.Zsuzsanna Gulacsi, Northern Arizona University
Manichean Conversion and Artistic heritage

11.40-12.15 Mr. Francois de Blois, SOAS
Manicheanism amongst the Uighurs

12.15-12.30 Questions

Lunch


Afternoon Session

2.00-2.35 Dr.Chhaya Bhattacharya-Haesner, Berlin
Uighur Art: Manichean and Buddhist-a comparison

2.35-3.10 Dr.Lilla Russell-Smith, Independent Scholar
Later Uighur influence on Dunhuang, Tangut and Khitan
Cultures


3.10-3.45 Dr.Barbara Brend, Independent Scholar The paintings of
'Muhammad Siyal Qalam' in the Topkapi Albums

3.45.4.15 Tea

4.15-4.45 Dr.Stephanie Bunn, St.Andrews University The Tent in
Uighur Lands

4.45.5.20 Dr.Edmund Waite, Independent Scholar
Islam amongst the Uyghurs in contemporary Xinjiang
Province.


Tickets ?5
(?0 RAS Fellows/OAP.s/Students)

For tickets contact:
Royal Asiatic Society
60 Queen.s Gardens
London W2 3AF
T: 020 7724 4741
E: info@royalasiaticsociety.org

Tickets £25
(£20 RAS Fellows/OAP.s/Students)

UighurEurope
09-03-05, 09:48
Come on, people will talk about uighur, but no uighur is presented.
You are not talking about Atlantis, people are real, they live and suffer.

What a nonsense.