Cultural heritage is of enormous importance throughout Central Asia. This is not only true for top-down state branding, identity building and the promotion of tourism but also for daily, affective or unspectacular encounters of local communities with…

EurAsia Summer Academy: Vienna Summer School on the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia This year’s Vienna Summer School on the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia will introduce the participants to the subject of mantras or “potent…

Our summer school is designed to explore a range of scholarly approaches to the hermeneutics of records and the formation of archives on Islam in the territories of the former Russian Empire in the early modern and modern period. Here the term…

This Summer Academy offers a deep and rigorous dive into the study of primary Sanskrit material for students and researchers. In line with the ethos of our successful Summer Academy 2024, the course aims to provide participants with hands-on…

There has been a growing renewed interest in the cultural heritage of the trans-Eurasian trade network, widely called “Silk Road”, as visible in recent exhibitions, accompanying publications and monographic studies. Yet these endeavours are often…

The 2025 Eurasia Summer Academy – Vienna Summer school on the History and Cultures of Asia 2025 event is an intensive one-week exploration of the diverse roles of language in South Asian philosophical and religious traditions. Participants will…

Our summer school is designed to explore a range of scholarly approaches to the hermeneutics of records and the formation of archives on Islam in the territories of the former Russian Empire in the early modern and modern period. Here the term…

Cultural heritage is of enormous importance throughout Central Asia. This is not only true for topdown state branding, identity building and the promotion of tourism but also for daily, affective or unspectacular encounters of local communities with…

This Summer Academy offers a research-based rigorous philological training program for exploring Sanskrit manuscripts and epigraphical material preserved in Nepal’s Kathmandu Valley. By combining text readings with field visits, the program provides…

The Department of Linguistics at the University of Vienna is hosting a Summer School within the "EurAsian Transformations" Summer Academy. The Summer School will focus on the specific languages of the Eastern Silk Road.