A tale of two cities: Water and the origins of hydraulic societies in prehistoric China

Lecture Series Irrigation Technologies and Water Management across Eurasia

When Words Make Worlds. Building Theory across Languages and Cultures

Key Note Lecture of the EurAsian Transformations 1st Annual Conference

Ring Lecture: Cultural Heritage in the Middle East and Central Asia: Conservation and Destruction

Hybride Event 9 October 2024 - 22 January 2025 Wednesday, 5PM - 6:30PM Lecture Hall of the Department of Near Eastern Studies UniCampus 1F-O1-3842

THE FORMATIVE HISTORY OF BUDDHISM IN MONGOLIA IN THE 16TH AND 17TH CENTURIES: A REASSESSMENT

On Monday, 17 June, 2024, 17:00-18:30, our Guest professor, Karénina Kollmar-Paulenz, will deliver a lecture at the Austrian Academy of Scieces, Seminar room 1, located on the third floor of the Georg-Coch-Platz 2 building in 1010 Vienna.

Poetry Lecture with Ann Cotten

Ann Cotten will be giving a poetry lecture in May at the Literaturhaus am Inn/Brenner Archive in cooperation with the Institute of German Studies and the Cluster of Excellence.

Georg Bühler Lecture: Beyond India

About scratchings, scribblings and Buddhists in the west of the Indian ocean

Lecture "Cycles of crisis and recovery in Byzantine and Ottoman Macedonia"

Adam Izdebski and Georgios Liakopoulos, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology (“Palaeo-Science and History” Research Group) The event is organised on short notice to take advantage of the presence of Prof. Izdebski and Dr Liakopoulos in Vienna…

Entanglements of the Greek, Neo-Assyrian and Iranian worlds

The conference will follow and reconstruct the essential steps and developments in the creation of this new worldview that can be characterized as a major heritage of the ancient Near East towards our times.