ISLAM-TIBET PAST EVENTS

Conferences:

Rashid al-Din as an Agent and Mediator of Crosspollinations in Religion, Medicine, Science and Art
London, 8-9 November 2007
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Islam & Tibet: Cultural Interactions.
16 - 18 November 2006
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Astro-Medicine: Medicine and Astronomy East and West
!3-14 May 2005
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Presentations, papers, lectures :

Presentation by Professor Charles Burnett, ‘Islam and Tibet. Interactions along the Musk Routes’.Rubin Museum of Art, New York, October 27th, 2008.

Presentation by Dr Georgios Halkias, 'Religious Syncretism in the Indian Himalayas'.
Austrian Academy of Science, April 15th, 2008. Vienna, Austria.

Presentation by Dr Anna Akasoy, ‘Islamic Concepts and Terminology in Rashid al-Din’s Life of the Buddha’ (in German)
Workshop: Neuere Forschungen zu hagiographischen Fragen (15), 10-12 April 2008, Stuttgart-Hohenheim
http://akademie-rs-test.de/ge-hagiographie.html

Presentation by Dr Georgios Halkias ‘Modern Pasts: Tracing the 1679 Tibet-Bashahr Treaty.’
Warburg Institute, Lecture Room, 27th of February 2008, 2:15 pm.

Presentations by Dr Anna Akasoy, ‘Dying of Laughter in Lhasa. Tibet in Islamic Geography and Cartography’
(Universities of Haifa and Beer Sheva), December 2007
http://hcc.haifa.ac.il/~hos/Akasoy-flier-07-08.pdf

Presentation by Dr Anna Akasoy, ‘Alexander the Great in the Islamic Tradition. Recent Developments and Fields for Future Research’
Exploratory Workshop – Hellenism: Alien or Germane Wisdom?, Central European University, Budapest, 23-25 November 2007
http://www.hellenic.hu/alienwisdom.htm

Medicine on the Silk Roads, Transmissions and Transformation On February 9th and 10th, a workshop dedicated to “Medicine on the Silk Roads, Transmissions and Transformations” took place at the British Library and the Wellcome Institute. Dr. Yoeli-Tlalim and Dr. Akasoy gave two talks in which they presented some of the results of the project (click each title below for details): Between Tibet and the Islamic World: Musk Trade and Medicine Rashīd al-Dīn as a Source for Islamic-Buddhist Contacts Warburg Institute lunch time lecture On 2 February 2006 in their lunch time lecture Dr. Akasoy and Dr. Yoeli-Tlalim presented four aspects of their research (click  the title below for details) Islam and Tibet: Cultural Interactions along the Musk Routes