China - The Cluster Expedition to the Tarim Basin

Organisation: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Melanie Malzahn / Clemens Steinwender, BA MA

Date and Place: 25th of September, Jura-Soyfer Saal in the Hofburg in Vienna, 1010 Vienna

Moderation: Clemens Steinwender

Beginning: 09:00 – 09:15:

Introduction and Thanks to the Cluster

09:15 – 10:00:

Felix Kloos/Viktoria Reiter: Virtual map of the Expedition and introduction of visited places

10:00 – 10:30:

Hannes Fellner: Grammar at the Crossroads: Grammatical Traditions of the Tarim Basin

10:30 – 10:45:

Coffee Break

10:45 – 11:15:

Photos from the Expedition by Clemens Steinwender and discussion of Chinese Museums and their presentation of Tarim Basin History

11:15 – 12:00:

Bernhard Palme: Plates of Wood as Sources in Comparison between Chinese and Roman Empires

12:00 – 13:30:

Lunch Break

13:30 – 14:00:

Melanie Malzahn: A Tocharian Text directly from the Urumqui Museum

14:00 – 14:30:

Maksim Vyzhlakov: 4TB: a parallel Tocharian A - Old Uyghur text corpus

14:30 – 15:00:

Lukas Wurth: A Solar Thermal Power Station spotted during our travels

15:00 – 16:00:

Presentation of the Posters and planned papers from Participants and Discussion of the Expedition with Coffee and Sweets

 

Link: Tarim Expedition 2026

 

There will be refreshments and we would be grateful if you could register under the following link so that we can plan accordingly:

https://calendar.online/event_registration

Programme download:

Workshop Programme (PDF)