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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)
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)