Greet One Another with a Holy Kiss’: Sermons on Greeting and Apologetics for the Holy Kiss in Pre-Modern Armenian Ecclesial Literature
Pre-modern inter-confessional relations in the Ottoman and Safavid realms were often tense among Eastern Christians, shaped by the presence of Muslims and by Catholic influences. From the late seventeenth century onward, some ‘reform-minded’…
Sanskrit texts of the Buddhist epistemological tradition: Negotiating translations without illusions (but painstakingly)
Since the early 20th century, scholars from diverse cultural regions such as Japan, India, Russia and Austria have studied and translated texts of the Indian Buddhist epistemological tradition. They have focused particularly on the philosophical…
Translating Sattā: Existence, Being, or Something Else?
This is the third lecture in the lecture series Religious Philosophy in Pre-Modern Eurasia: Questions of Translatability organized within the framework of the Cluster of Excellence Eurasian Transformations: Resources of the Past and Challenges of…
Peeling Back the Layers: How Qanāt Lines Shaped the Landscape and Vice Versa in Iran
Joint Lecture Series Irrigation Technologies and Water Management Across Eurasia of the Cluster of Excellence Eurasian Transformation in collaboration with Durham University’s UNESCO Chair on Archaeological Ethics and Practice in Cultural Heritage.…
Heiden und Christen: das Großfürstentum Litauen im Europa des Spätmittelalters
Opening lecture of the EurAsia Lecture Series WS2025/26 „Europas unbekannteste Großmacht: Litauen zwischen historischer Reichsbildung und moderner Staatlichkeit", by Rimvydas Petrauskas, Rector of the University of Vilnius.
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