CIRDIS in co-operation with the AAS (Austrian Academy of Sciences) is organizing the workshop:

MOVING BORDERS: Current Research on Afghanistan between Inner and South Asia
25th and 26th of Jannuary 2016, Theatersaal of the AAS

Programm:

Jannuary 25th 2016, 5pm, Theatersaal of the AAS

Frantz Grenet (Collége de France/AAS): "New perspectives on origins of the Fire Temples: recent archaeological discoveries in pre-Achaemenid and Achaemenid Central Asia"

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Jannuary 26th 2016, 9:30am, Theatersaal of the AAS

Frantz Grenet (Collége de France/AAS): "The Turkish kingdom of Kabul-Zabul (7th-9th c.): a claim to translatio imperii?"

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11:30 – 11:45am coffee break

MOVING BORDERS: Current Research on Afghanistan between Inner and South Asia (ÖAW / CIRDIS)

speaking time: 20min, discussion time: 10min, additionally discussion time at the end of each section: 15min

11:45am – 12:15pm
Deborah Klimburg-Salter: "The Buddhist art of Kabul? A hierarchy of questions"

12:15pm – 12:45pm
Anna Filigenzi: "Tapa Sardar, Mes Aynak, Tepe Narenj, Qol-e Tut: Steps towards a comprehensive art history of pre-Islamic Afghanistan"

12:45pm – 1:00pm discussion

1:00pm – 2:30pm lunch break

2:30pm – 3:00pm
Minoru Inaba: "Central Asia in the mid eighth century: Wukong’s itinerary toward India"

3:00pm – 3:30pm
Fabrizio Sinisi: "Iconographic transmission between western Iran and the Indo-Iranian Borderlands: Arsacid and Kushan royal imagery"

3:30pm – 3:45pm discussion

3:45pm – 4:00pm coffee break

4:00pm – 4:30pm
Nicholas Sims-Williams: "A Bactrian inscription from the tenth year of Kanishka I"

4:30pm – 5:00pm
Nikolaus Schindel: "Once again - Numismatic Comments on the Date of Kanishka"

5:00pm – 5:30pm closing discussion