Die Macht der Dinge – The Power of Things and the Flow of Cultural Transformations

15.10.2009
Maori Carving and Colonial History. A Supplement to Tene Waitere’s Travels
Nicholas Thomas, Cambridge

29.10.2009
Riding the Carpet: Talismans and Toys in the 1001 Nights
Marina Warner, London

5.11.2009
Oriental ‘Spolia’ in Wolfram’s ‘Parzival’ and its Manuscript Tradition
Michael Stolz, Bern

26.11.2009
Flight of the Phoenix. The Impact of Mongol Silks in Europe
Lisa Monnas, London

3.12.2009
India Ink. Imagery of the Subcontinent in Sixteenth-Century Europe
Larry Silver, Philadelphia

10.12.2009
Adaption, Interpretation and Misunderstanding: The After-Life and Disappearance of Pictorial Programmes of Classical Antiquity during the Early Islamic Period
Thomas Leisten, Princeton

7.1.2010
Modern Japanese Garden in a Transnational Context
Toshio Watanabe, London

14.1.2010
Ghiyath al-DinNaqqash’s Report on the Embassy to Khanbaligh. Artistic Exchange Between the Timurid and Ming Dynasties
David J. Roxburgh, Harvard

21.1.2010
Musical Instruments as Conveyors of Meaning from one Culture to Another
Charles Burnett, London

28.1.2010
Export Items of the English East India Company in the Early 17th Century
Timon Screech, London