The conference is organized as part of the Max Planck Fellow Group “Connectivity in Motion – Port Cities of the Indian Ocean” led by Burkhard Schnepel at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (MPI). By focusing on cargoes, it discusses how the transport, trade, and consumption of these objects create connections between people, groups, regions, nations, and even entire continents. RIO is a participating member at the conference “Cargoes: The Materiality of Connectivity in Motion Across the Indian Ocean”.…

The 7th International Conference on Cities, People and Places (ICCPP-2019), 'Caring and Managing Cities': Transforming futures, is held from November 14th to 16th, 2019, at the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The ‘UOM Lab- Centre for Cities’ and the Department of Architecture of the University of Moratuwa in Sri Lanka in collaboration with its international and national academic partners are organizing the event. Prof. Jansen is invited as a keynote speaker. His presentation, entitled "Forms, Functions, Functionalities and their Parameters: Deriving…

Prof. Jansen participates in the UNESCO Technical Meeting to reflect on the Recovery of the World Heritage site of Palmyra. Representatives from the Directorate General for Antiquities and Museums in Syria, Syrian and international experts, UNESCO’s institutional partners as well as a small group of multidisciplinary international experts discuss on the most appropriate approach for the recovery of the site of Palmyra, taking stock of the current situation and on-going initiatives at the site. The meeting takes into consideration the…

Prof. Michael Jansen participates in the International Conference on the Indus Script that will be held in Mohenjo Daro, Pakistan from 9th to 11th January 2020.  The conference aims at bringing together scholars from throughout the world who have been involved in developing ways to understand the Indus script and the contexts for its use. This includes the ways in which the Indus script has been found in adjacent regions of Arabia, Mesopotamia, Iran and Central Asia.  The conference will…

The National Records and Archives Authority of the Sultanate of Oman organizes its Eighth International Conference, this time on the topic of "Omani-German Relations during the 19th and 20th Centuries." It aims at studying the different aspects of these relations since the arrival of the Germans in East Africa and the Gulf, and the German role in historical, economic, social and cultural studies of Oman. It also explores the German-Omani political and economic rivalry in East Africa as well as…

Prof. Jansen participates in the 25th International Conference of the European Association for South Asian Archaeology and Art (EASAA), that will be held in Barcelona between 13th-17th July 2020. The members of the association composed of over 300 scholars from Europe, Asia and throughout the world discuss the latest advances in the fields of Archaeology, Art History, Architecture and Heritage of South Asia. The conference takes place at the Ciutadella Campus of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, in the heart of…

Stephane Pradines from the Aga Kahn University and Natasha Bennet from the Royal Armouries Museum organize a two days short course on Muslim warfare and material culture. The course will present military architecture and objects from Egypt and the Bilad es-Sham on the longue durée, from the Arab conquest to the end of the Ottoman period. For more information on the course and instructions on how to register, please follow the link: https://www.aku.edu/events/pages/event-detail.aspx?EventID=1510&Title=Warfare%20in%20Muslim%20Material%20Cultures:%20From%20Egypt%20to%20Bilad%20al-Sham