Series

Lecture series Society of Friends of the Kern Institute (VVIK)

The lectures are organised by the Society of Friends of the Kern Institute (VVIK). All are welcome to attend.

The Society of Friends of the Kern Institute (Vereniging Vrienden van het Instituut Kern or VVIK) supports and promotes the study of South Asia, in particular India and Tibet. The society organises lectures and excursions, provides subsidies for study trips, supports the expansion and public use of the VVIK library-collections, and brings out a Newsletter and other publications. The VVIK acts in close cooperation with the South Asian and Tibetan Studies program of the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies (LIAS).

Programme

• 23 Feb
  Lecture | VVIK lecture Conservation and study of the Pahari collection of drawings and paintings Dr. Amélie Couvrat Desvergnes
• 10 Nov
  Lecture | Friends of the Kern Institute The Śākadvīpīya Sun Cult from Ancient Times to the Present Day Dr. Martina Palladino, Gonda fellow at Leiden University
• 09 Jun
  Lecture | VVIK Lecture Violence and the State: Perspectives from Ancient India Upinder Singh (Professor of History, Ashoka University, Sonepat, India)
• 07 Mar
  Lecture | Friends of the Kern Institute lecture Poets at the service of the Empire: identity and self-representation of the Diṇḍima family David Pierdominici Leão (IIAS, Leiden)
• 21 Jun
  Lecture | Friends of the Kern Institute lecture VVIK lecture by Csaba Dezső Csaba Dezső
• 24 May
  Lecture | Friends of the Kern Institute lecture VVIK lecture by Kunthea Chhom and Melinda Zulejka Fodor Dr. Kunthea Chhom, Dr. Melinda Zulejka Fodor
• 25 Jan
  Lecture | Friends of the Kern Institute lecture How to make a ‘Cōḻa bronze’? Theory and practice of bronze casting in South India and the Rijksmuseum research on Asian bronzes Anna Ślączka
• 29 Nov
  Lecture VVIK Lecture; The How and Why of Sanskrit Poetry and My Sanskrit Poetic Contributions Madhav Deshpande (University Michigan)