Monday 15 October 2018

Chinese walls Conference this Thursday and Friday in Vienna



Success and Failure of Wall Building in Human History
Conference 18-20 October 2018
University of Vienna, Institute of Art History, Seminar Room 1
Garnisongasse 13, Court 9 (Uni Campus), 1090 Wien


Programme

Thursday, October 18
10:00-10:15
Welcome and Opening address Lukas Nickel and Robert Rollinger

Panel 1, Panel Chair: Eberhard Sauer
10:15-11:00
Gebhard Selz, Wien,
The Martu-Wall of the UR-III period
11:00 coffee break
11:15-12:00
Robert Rollinger, Innsbruck,
The Median wall and Xenophon
12:00-12:45
Lukas Nickel, Wien,
The Qin and Han Great Wall
12:45-14:30 Lunch BreakPanel 2, Panel Chair: Christoph Schäfer
14:30-15:15
Nicola DiCosmo, Princeton,
The Chinese Wall from a Nomadic Perspective
15:15-16:00Krzysztof Nawotka, Wrocław,The „Gates of Alexander“ and the Caucasian Wall of Derbent
16:00 coffee break16:15-17:15
Discussion (Tim Taylor)
19:00 Conference Dinner (Speakers and Discussants only)


Friday, October 19
Panel 3, 
Panel Chair: Lukas Nickel
9:00-9:45
Lauren Morris, Freiburg,
The Iron Gate wall in Uzbekistan
9:45-10:30
Eberhard Sauer et al., Edinburgh,
The Wall of Gorgan
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-11:45
Dirk Rupnow, Innsbruck,
The Berlin Wall
11:45-12:30Discussion (Sitta von Reden)
12:30-14:30 Lunch Break
afternoon:Excursion: Roman Vienna(with Andreas Schwarcz, Wien)
Saturday, October 20
Panel 4, 
Panel Chair: Robert Rollinger
9:30-10:15Kai Ruffing, Kassel,The Hadrian ́s Wall
10:15-11:00
Christoph Schäfer, Trier,
The Rhine and Danube Limes
11:00 Coffee break
11:15-12:15
Concluding Remarks and Final discussion
(Bert Fragner)

 Kontakt


Garnisongasse 13, Universitätscampus Hof 9, 1090 Wien
T: +43-1-4277-41401
F: +43-1-4277-9414
kunstgeschichte@univie.ac.at

Friday 12 October 2018

In the Wake of the Mongols: The Making of a New Social Order in North China, 1200- 1600 by Jinping Wang

In the Wake of the Mongols: 

The Making of a New Social Order in North China, 1200-1600 (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series) 

Hardcover – 26 Oct 2018

Hammer and Anvil: Nomad Rulers at the Forge of the Modern World

Hammer and Anvil: Nomad Rulers at the Forge of the Modern World 

Hardcover – 9 Feb 2019

Archaeology and Conservation Along the Silk Road

Archaeology and Conservation Along the Silk Road  

Paperback – 3 Nov 2018

Central Asian Cultures, Arts, and Architecture: Inner Eurasia from Prehistory to the Medieval Golden Ages by Ardi Kia

Central Asian Cultures, Arts, and Architecture: 

Inner Eurasia from Prehistory to the Medieval Golden Ages

Hardcover – 15 Dec 2018

Artifacts from the Ancient Silk Road

Artifacts from the Ancient Silk Road 

(Daily Life through Artifacts) 

Hardcover – 28 Feb 2019

Fruit from the Sands: The Silk Road Origins of the Foods We Eat by Robert N. Spengler

Fruit from the Sands: The Silk Road Origins of the Foods We Eat 

Hardcover – 12 Jun 2019

by Robert N. Spengler 

  • Hardcover: 440 pages
  • Publisher: University of California Press (12 Jun. 2019)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0520303636

The foods we eat have a deep and often surprising past. Many foods we consume today-from almonds and apples to tea and rice-have histories can be traced along the tracks of the Silk Road out of prehistoric Central Asia to European kitchens and American tables. Organized trade along the Silk Road dates to at least Han Dynasty China in the second century B.C., but the exchange of goods, ideas, cultural practices, and genes along these ancient trading routes extends back five thousand years. Balancing a broad array of archaeological, botanical, and historical evidence, Fruit from the Sands presents the fascinating story of the origins and spread of agriculture across Inner Asia and into Europe and East Asia. Through the preserved remains of plants in archaeological sites, Robert N. Spengler III identifies the regions where our most familiar crops were domesticated and follows their routes as people carried them around the world. Vividly narrated, Fruit from the Sands explores how the foods we eat have shaped the course of human history and transformed consumption all over the globe.

Robert N. Spengler III is the Archaeobotany Laboratory Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, a Volkswagen/Mellon Foundations Fellow, and a former Visiting Research Scholar at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World.