Booking has now opened for our forthcoming hybrid workshop, 'Parthian Art & the Graeco-Roman World'. Reserve for free via eventbrite.co.uk/e/parthian-art… Provisional programme coming soon on our website carc.ox.ac.uk/carc/events/Bo…

Just in from Beijing, news that my new (bilingual) book on flows of art theory between China and Europe in early 20th c is now published

I'm excited to share that the Victoria and Albert Museum and University College London are offering a fully funded Collaborative Doctoral Studentship on the provenance of the V&A's Asia Collection. For more information: ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…

Gandharan sculpture of the Buddha, Greenway House, Devon- former property of Max Mallowan and Agatha Christie #flickr flic.kr/p/2pG93Ay Gandhara Connections

Hi, I am looking for more info/ contacts on the historian & coin collector Dr Jose Gerson da Cunha’s descendants. His daughter Emmeline was a medical doctor & another descendant the actor Gerson da Cunha passed away recently. Would appreciate any leads!

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Notice of an upcoming conference being organized in Strasbourg.

Archaeologists are only now beginning to understand the importance, and scale, of the trade routes running from Roman Egypt to South Asia in the first century CE, with Alexandrian glass beakers turning up in Begram in Afghanistan and Gandharan-style Buddhas being discovered in…

The remains of an ancient Shatial fort of the Gandhara style, near Tangir, the ancient civilizations in the Karakoram mountains, and on the banks of Indus River, which are now almost destroyed There is still a small market nearby. Shatial Bazar of the past was the main
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New Empire Podcast drop:
India Meets Rome-
Gandhara & the Making of the Image of the Buddha

Coming up this Friday, March 8. The Keynote Lecture by Christian Luczanits will be live streamed from 2-3.15 pm (ET). Details in the poster.

Remember?

This collection is lost.

But thanks to International Dunhuang Programme's new website, we now have access to nearly 400 images of F.M. Bailey in incredibly high resolution from his journey from British India to Soviet Turkestan from the British Library collection.

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A talk by Jas Elsner on Amaravati happening in Oxford today.

Link: nytimes.com/2024/01/31/art…

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Super excited for this! Please consider submitting an abstract:

📣 The call for applications for the EFEO Field Scholarships - 2nd Semester 2024 is open!

⏳️ Master II and PhD students, you have until March 15 2024 included to apply!

🌏 Study trip to Asia between June, 1st and December 31, 2024

➡️ Apply online: bit.ly/39DjCUG

We’re thrilled to be on Antigone’s list again this year for our ‘astoundingly rich databases’, alongside so many other brilliant resources.

“Look at the Coins! Papers in Honour of Joe Cribb on his 75th Birthday” ed. by Helen Wang and Robert Bracey (Archaeopress 2023) — available now in paperback and ebook archaeopress.com/Archaeopress/P…

'It makes a massive difference.'

Despite a deep connection between Oxford and Pakistan, Pakistanis and British Pakistanis remain under-represented at the University.

The Oxford Pakistan Programme Programme is working to change that.

More info ⬇️
development.ox.ac.uk/report2022-23/…