Silk Road Lecture, Stanford University

"The Mongolian Altai Inventory Project: a Tale of Inquiry and Good Fortune"

• by Esther Jacobson-Tepfer,Maude I. Kerns Professor Emeritus of Asian Art, University of Oregon


• May 19 (Thursday), 7:30 p.m.School of Education, Room 206Stanford University


• This talk will present the course of a project that took 18 years of field work from inception to completion. Within the Altai Mountains of northwest Mongolia, the subject of our inquiry was surface archaeology--rock art, altars, burial mounds, and standing stones--covering a period of more than 12,000 years. The world we discovered and were the first to extensively map and publish lay on the northern boundaries of the Silk Road, in a remote and mountainous region between Central and North Asia.


• Dr. Jacobson-Tepfer has published eight books, including Archaeology and Landscape in the Mongolian Altai: an Atlas, The Art of the Scythians: The Interpenetration of Cultures at the Edge of the Hellenic World, The Deer-Goddess of Ancient Siberia, and Burial Ritual, Gender, and Status in the Late Bronze-Early Iron Age. She is a specialist on rock art of Mongolia.


• Sponsored by the Silkroad Foundation, Center for East Asian Studies, and Center for East European and Eurasian Studies

Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road

• Johan Elverskog, Southern Methodist University
  Monday, May 09, 201112:00 PM - 1:30 PM6275 Bunche Hall


• The meeting of Buddhism and Islam is often conceived as one of violent confrontation. Indeed, the Taliban’s destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas in 2001 readily confirmed our preconceived imaginings: Islam is bad and violent, while Buddhism is good and peaceful. Yet, how accurate are these stereotypes? Moreover, how do these contemporary views shape our understanding of the past? The aim of this talk is to explore these questions by exploring the cultural exchanges that took place between Buddhists and Muslims in medieval Central Asia.
  Johan Elverskog is Altshuler University Distinguished Professor and Professor of Religious Studies, Southern Methodist University


• Religions of the Silk Road: Transformation and Transmission in the Heart of Asia, is a lecture series co-sponsored by the UCLA Program on Central Asia and the Center for the Study of Religion


• Asia served Before the rise of the maritime empires of Europe, the ancient trade routes of Central as one the world’s most vital thoroughfares of religious traffic. From the goddesses of prehistoric Eurasia through the Iranian religions of Zoroaster and Mani, to the Buddhism transferred from India and the Judaism, Christianity and eventually Islam carried in from the Mediterranean west, almost all of the major religions of Asia were imported into the oasis towns that lined the route between Persia and China. Yet if the monks, books and relics who moved along the ‘silk road’ point to a history of religious transmission both into and through Central Asia, important questions remain about what happened to these religious forms in their long periods in transit. Placing the question of transformation alongside that of transmission, the current series of talks excavates the neglected history of Central Asia’s own contributions to the religions of the old world.

Fuente: UCLA. Center for the Study of Religion

La PUCP desarrollará modelo educativo del APEC

En el 2008, la Cumbre del Foro de Cooperación Económica Asia-Pacífico (APEC) de Lima significó el compromiso de los 21 países a favor del desarrollo de la región. Hoy, la PUCP es protagonista de este compromiso pues ha sido elegida como representante del Perú ante el APEC en el desarrollo del modelo educativo que se aplicará entre sus países miembros.

Fuente: Universidad Católica del Perú

En el Centro Cultural Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP)

• Dr. Pan Wei hablará sobre el modelo Chino y la crisis internacional

En este ciclo recibimos la visita del doctor Pan Wei, uno de los intelectuales más destacados en China. Él se desempeña como director del Centro para Asuntos Chinos y Mundiales de la Universidad de Pekín, es Ph.D por la Universidad de California, Berkeley y actualmente es Profesor Visitante del Departamento de Ciencias Sociales de la PUCP.

El martes 9 de junio dictará la conferencia "El modelo Chino y la crisis internacional, que contará con los comentarios de los doctores Julio Chan, Farid Kahhat y Cynthia Sanborn. La cita es en el Centro Cultural PUCP (Camino Real 1075, San Isidro) a las 7 p.m

Fuente Pucp

Fundación Atlas 1853

• Viernes 29 de abril- 8.45 am. Desayuno de trabajo
  

1. La exposición se hará en idioma inglés - Café Tortoni. Avenida de Mayo 825

"La burbuja económica" China y el coqueteo de India con el capitalismo

• Expone Christopher LingleSobre le Expositor: nació en Atlanta, Georgia, Estados Unidos. Fue profesor universitario en University of Georgia. Phd. en Economia. La mayor parte de su carrera transcurrió en Universidades de Asia, Africa y Europa


• Lingle ganó notoriedad internacional durante su ejercicio como profesor de la Universidad Nacional de Singapur.


• Cupos limitados. Se requiere incripción previa.

Inscripción atlas@atlas.org.ar

Australasian Association of Buddhist Studies

India Exchange Program

• The School of Philosophy at University of Tasmania runs the Tasmanian Buddhist Studies in India Exchange Program. Under this banner every year they, in collaboration with the
  India Exchange Program in the US, coordinate a special exchange unit (HPA297/397 Indo-Tibetan Philosophy, History and Culture) in India, (Sarnath) in late December and January.




• It is a four week program: three-weeks of intensive academic courses offered at Central University of Tibetan Studies followed by a one week site-seeing tour around some of India’s best historical destinations.




• The School of Philosophy at University of Tasmania invites applications from the students of any university across Australia and New Zealand.




• For more information please go to the following link:

http://fcms.its.utas.edu.au/arts/philosophy/cpage.asp?lCpageID=255

Expresiones pictóricas del Japón: caligrafía, Nihonga, estampa japonesa. Por Julieta Jiterman

• El objetivo del curso es introducirse al conocimiento de la pintura japonesa y su filosofía. A través de la expresión pictórica, entender los principios fundamentales de su estética, la importancia de la naturaleza y la presencia del Zen en todas las artes japonesas.


• Julieta Jiterman es artista plástica, egresada de La Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes P. Pueyrredón, y especializada en arte japonés en la Universidad de Utsunomiya, Japón con una beca otorgada por el Gobierno Japonés. Realizó numerosas exposiciones tanto en Argentina, Costa Rica, México, Guatemala y Japón. Desarrolla tanto su actividad docente así como artística, ayudando a la difusión de la cultura japonesa.


• Frecuencia y duración: 1 clase semanal de dos horas. Total 16 clases.


• Http://www.rojas.uba.ar/cursos/cultura/contenidos_artes_plasticas.php#11