News, Events, and Activities

The core Shahi project team’s scientific activities include numerous workshops, conferences, and research visits to museums and archives housing significant Shahi objects. All activities are collaborative endeavors involving our network of over thirty scholars, technical experts, museum professionals, and graduate students at institutions across the globe.

News

Klimburg-Salter and the Shahi Project featured in Die Presse
www.diepresse.com/5963548/das-kulturelle-erbe-mittelasiens

Klimburg-Salter awarded highest research prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
https://medienportal.univie.ac.at/uniview/wissenschaft-gesellschaft/detailansicht/artikel/hoechste-wissenschaftspreise-der-oeaw-verliehen/
OEAW brochure

Kimmet and Shahi project team receive Holzhausen-Legat grant from the Austrian Academy of Sciences
"Creating a Digital Research Platform: Primary Source Material for the Shahi Kingdoms" (2021)

Shahi project team receives Austrian Science Fund Stand-Alone Digital Publication Grant
"Shahi Kingdoms Digital Publication and Research Platform" (FWF PUD 26-G, 2021-2024), in collaboration with the Austrian Academy of Sciences' Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage

Upcoming Events and Activities

Past Events and Activities

Roundtable "The Heritage of Afghanistan: Current Challenges and Perspectives," organized by Casa Asia and the European Association for South Asian Archaeology and Art
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, July 4, 2022

Participants: Natasha Kimmet; Deborah Klimburg-Salter; Mohammad Fahim Rahimi

25th Conference of the European Association for South Asian Archaeology and Art (EASAA)
Barcelona, July 4-8, 2022 (rescheduled from 2020)

Participants: Arturo Annucci; Adam Hardy; Natasha Kimmet; Deborah Klimburg-Salter; Satoshi Naiki

Final International Project Workshop "Cultural History of the Shahi Kingdoms: Formation and Transformation Across Three Centuries, New Research and Publication Planning"
University of Vienna / Austrian Academy of Sciences, March 26-28, 2022

Participants: Michael Alram; Arturo Annucci; Adam Hardy; Minoru Inaba; Natasha Kimmet; Deborah Klimburg-Salter; Malgorzata Lenko; Luca Maria Olivieri; Ehsan Shavarebi; Ingo Strauch; Katharina Uhlir; Verena Widorn

Harvard, Inner Asian and Altaic Studies Virtual Lecture Series
Online, February 16, 2022, 13:15 EST (Zoom registration here)
Deborah Klimburg-Salter "Ethnic, Linguistic, and Religious Diversity in Afghanistan, in Historical Perspective" (details here)

Shahi Project Workshop “Art History”
Vienna, December 17, 2021
Participants: Michael Alram; Aleksandra Apic; Natasha Kimmet; Deborah Klimburg-Salter; Uwe Niebuhr; Andreas Olschnögger; Ehsan Shavarebi

Workshop “Politics of Exhibitions and Museum Collections”--Aktion AT-CZ: From the Himalaya to the Hindukush-On a Critical Approach to Czech and Austrian Research in Asian Borderlands
Weltmuseum Vienna, November 10, 2021 (Program here)
Participants: Natasha Kimmet; Verena Widorn; Uwe Niebuhr; Aleksandra Apic 

Fourth International Project Workshop “Numismatics”
Vienna, October 4, 2021
Participants: Michael Alram; Arturo Annucci; Aleksandra Apic; Natasha Kimmet; Deborah Klimburg-Salter; Malgorzata Lenko; Ehsan Shavarebi; Klaus Vondrovec

Harvard Forum on Cultural Heritage
"The National Museum of Afghanistan: Retrieving the Past, Securing the Future"
Online (Zoom), April 6, 2021 (Event poster)

Third International Project Workshop “Materials and Technologies”
Vienna, June 25-26, 2020
Participants: Michael Alram; Aleksandra Apic; Erika Forte; Natasha Kimmet; Deborah Klimburg-Salter; Malgorzata Lenko; Luca Maria Olivieri; Ehsan Shavarebi; Verena Widorn

UK Research Travel: Ashmolean Museum, British Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum
Oxford/London, March 1-7, 2020
Participants: Natasha Kimmet; Deborah Klimburg-Salter; Malgorzata Lenko

Kabul Museum Project “Art History and Curatorial Workshop in Japan”
Kyoto/Tokyo, December 1-14, 2019
Participants: Michael Alram; Minoru Inaba; Natasha Kimmet; Deborah Klimburg-Salter; Satoshi Naiki; Fahim Rahimi; Yoko Taniguchi; Noémie Verdon
Financed by the Gerda Henkel Stiftung’s Funding Initiative “Patrimonies” and Kyoto University’s Institute for Research in Humanities
https://lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/kabul_museum_project_art_history_and_curatorial_workshop_in_japan?nav_id=9230 

India Research Travel: Archaeological Survey of India (New Delhi), Chandigarh Government Museum and Art Gallery, CSMVS Mumbai, National Museum New Delhi
Chandigarh/New Delhi/Mumbai, October 8-24, 2019
Participants: Michael Alram; Natasha Kimmet; Deborah Klimburg-Salter; Malgorzata Lenko

Second International Project Workshop “Shahi Art History and Material Culture”
Vienna, June 3-5, 2019
Participants: Michael Alram; Aleksandra Apic; Erika Forte; Adam Hardy; Minoru Inaba; Natasha Kimmet; Deborah Klimburg-Salter; Malgorzata Lenko; Sonya Rhie Mace; Satoshi Naiki; Uwe Niebuhr; Luca Maria Olivieri; Ehsan Shavarebi; Klaus Vondrovec; Verena Widorn

Japan Research Travel: Joint Archive Project
Kyoto, February 26 - March 4, 2019
Participants: Minoru Inaba; Deborah Klimburg-Salter; Verena Widorn

U.S. Research Travel: Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Cleveland Museum of Art, Harvard Art Museums, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Boston/Cleveland/New York, November 4-16, 2018
Participants: Michael Alram; Natasha Kimmet; Deborah Klimburg-Salter; Malgorzata Lenko

First International Project Workshop: Goals and strategy. Geography and cultural history
Vienna/Dürnstein, October 18-21, 2018
Participants: Eva Alram; Michael Alram; Nicola di Cosmo; Minoru Inaba; Natasha Kimmet; Deborah Klimburg-Salter; Malgorzata Lenko; Sean McAllister; Uwe Niebuhr; Luca Maria Olivieri; Jürgen Schörflinger; Klaus Vondorvec; Verena Widorn

24th Conference of the European Association for South Asian Archaeology and Art (EASAA)
Naples, July 1-6, 2018
Participants: Michael Alram; Adam Hardy; Natasha Kimmet; Deborah Klimburg-Salter; Malgorzata Lenko; Satoshi Naiki; Luca Maria Olivieri; Zafar Paiman; Fahim Rahimi; Verena Widorn
easaa.org/conferences/naples-2018/



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