https://persicacentropa.univie.ac.at/events/

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Coinciding with the 700th anniversary of the death of Marco Polo, this international research forum invites three distinguished art historians with particular expertise in non-European arts who will examine the modes and modalities of portable objects, other than silk textiles, from fresh perspectives. With the focus on metalwork, especially silver, three papers will collectively investigate different phases of material connectivities from the Asia Pacific to Mediterranean regions, from the time of Alexander the Great to the Mongol invasion of Eurasia.

This forum is organised by Persica Centropa: Cosmopolitan Artefacts and Artifices in the Age of Crises, 1900-1950 (FWF V-995) and held in conjunction with the workshop, “Entangled Charters of Eurasia”, at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (16-18 October 2024).

https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/imafo/events/event-details/entangled-charters-of-eurasia

Programme

• Johannes Preiser-Kapeller (ÖAW – IMAFO), Chair and moderator
• Matthew Canepa (University of California, Irvine), Scriptive Things and Commensal Warfare: Luxury Vessels across post-Achaemenid Asia
• Yukio Lippit (Harvard University), Echoes of Persian Silverware in the Shosoin Treasury
• Yuka Kadoi (University of Vienna), Silver in the Mongol Empire: Alternative Nomadic Aesthetics