PROGRAM

Thursday, November 2, 2006:

Museum für Völkerkunde Wien, Neue Burg, Heldenplatz, 1010 Wien

• 4.30 pm Optional: Visit to the Southeast Asia Collections in the Museum of Ethnology (Reinhard Maurer). Limited number of participants. Please register in advance!
• Kunsthistorisches Museum, Maria Theresien-Platz, 1010 Wien, Bassano-Saal, 2nd floor
• 5:15 – 5:30 pm Opening and Welcome Speech by Christian Feest (Director, Museum für Völkerkunde) and Helmut Lukas (President of SOAC)
• 5:30 – 6:30 pm Self-introduction of the guest speakers
• 6:30 – 7:00 pm Socialising and sharing a glass of wine
• 7.30 pm (open end) Dinner in a close-by Vietnamese restaurant. Please register in advance!

Friday, November 3, 2006:

• 10:30 – 11:10 am Christian Feest (Vienna) The Southeast Asia Collections of the Museum für Völkerkunde Wien
• 11:10 – 11:50 am Helmut Lukas (Vienna): “The Spirits of the Yellow Leaves” - Hugo Adolf Bernatzik's Research Trip to Burma, Siam, and Indochina (1936-1937)
• 11:50 am - 12:30 pm Reinhard Maurer (Vienna): Bernatzik's Research on the Sea Nomads of the Mergui Archipelago (Burma and Thailand)
• 12:30 – 1:30 pm Lunch (optional: Visit to the Southeast Asia Collections in the Museum of Ethnology; Reinhard Maurer; Please register in advance!)
• 1:30 – 2:10 pm William Southworth (United Kingdom): Franz Heger and Robert Heine-Geldern: Southeast Asian Prehistory and Cultural Identity
• 2:10 – 2:50 pm Pacchira Chindaritha (VR China) & Helmut Lukas (Vienna): “Who is Mr. Hego?” – The Reception of Franz Heger in China
• 2:50 – 3:10 pm Coffee break
• 3:10 – 3:50 pm Alexander Trupp (Vienna) Austrian Research on Northern Thailand
• 3:50 – 4:30 pm Heinz Nissel (Vienna) Austrian Megacity Research in South and Southeast Asia
• 4:30 – 5:30 pm Plenum: Summary & discussion

Saturday, November 4, 2006:

• 10:30 – 11:10 am Helmut Lukas (Vienna) pioneering Studies on Languages and Cultures of Southeast Asia (W. Schmidt, R. Heine-Geldern, P. Schebesta)
• 11:10 – 11:50 am Pacchira Chindaritha (VR China) Semang Studies in the Past and the Present with Special Regard to the the so-called “Ngo Pa” of Thailand
• 11:50 am – 12:30 pm Thomas Kolnberger (Vienna): Urban Morphology, Sacred Cities, and State Formation in Early Cambodian History
• 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm Lunch
• 2:00 pm – 2:40 pm Bernhard Hurch (Graz)

• 2:40 – 3:20 pm Coffee break
• 3:20 – 4:30 pm Fritz Neuhauser & Michael Kiehn (Vienna) Joseph Franz Rock’s (1884–1962) Ground-breaking Research on the Naxi of Southwest China (incl. presentation of a documentary movie)
• 16:30 – 17:30 Plenum: Summary & discussion

List of speakers

1. Chindaritha, Pacchira (B.A.; Research Institute for Minority Studies & Guangxi University for Nationalities, China)
2. Feest, Christian (Univ.-Prof. Dr., Director, Museum of Ethnology Vienna)
3. Hurch, Bernhard (o. Univ.-Prof. Dr.; Department of Linguistics, Karl-Franzens-University, Graz)
4. Nissel, Heinz (ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr.; Department of Geography, University of Vienna)
5. Kiehn, Michael (ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr., Department of Biogeography, University of Vienna)
6. Kolnberger, Thomas (Department of Social and Economic History, University of Vienna)
7. Lukas, Helmut (Assoc.-Prof. Dr.; Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna)
8. Maurer, Reinhard (Museum of Ethnology, Vienna)
9. Neuhauser, Fritz, Dr. med. (Geriatriezentrum Wienerwald, Vienna)
10. . Southworth, William (Dr., United Kingdom; at present: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn/Germany)
11. Trupp, Alexander (Department of Geography, University of Vienna)

Please find the registration form as well as further information regarding our social program at our homepage, see http://www.............. >

• Contact: Erika Daum-Karanitsch, phone (+43-1) 78 66 178, mobile phone (+43-1) 0650-78 66 178, E-mail: erika-d-k@utanet.at

• the Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Culture
• the Science Section of the Municipal Department for Cultural Affairs (MA 7)

USEFUL LINKS:

VIENNA

VIENNA - city map and address finder: http://www.wien.gv.at/stadtplan/suche.asp?lang=en

Vienna – History http://www.wien.gv.at/english/history/index.htm

Vienna – City of Culture http://www.wien.gv.at/english/culture/index.htm

Vienna - Education http://www.wien.gv.at/english/education/index.htm

Vienna – City of Research http://www.wien.gv.at/english/research/index.htm

SCIENTISTS

Schuchardt, Hugo (1842-1927), linguist, romanist http://www.kfunigraz.ac.at/ub/sosa/nachlass/person/schuchardt/schuchardt.htm

Rock, Joseph Franz (1884–1962), botanist and explorer of the non-Chinese Naxi tribe of China (short biography in English & German) http://epub.oeaw.ac.at/3609-9 biography in German http://www.peopleandplaces.de/joseph_rock.htm

Bernatzik, Hugo Adolf (1897-1953), anthropologist http://www.aeiou.at/aeiou.encyclop.b/b356991.htm http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Bernatzik

Heger, Franz (1853-1931), anthropologist, http://www.aeiou.at/aeiou.encyclop.h/h343298.htm;internal&action=_setlanguage.action?LANGUAGE=en http://www.viettouch.com/pre-hist/dongson_class.html

Heine-Geldern, Robert (1885-1968) http://www.aeiou.at/aeiou.encyclop.h/h393814.htm;internal&action=_setlanguage.action?LANGUAGE=en

Schmidt, Wilhelm (1868-1954), linguist, anthropologist http://www.aeiou.at/aeiou.encyclop.s/s280471.htm;internal&action=_setlanguage.action?LANGUAGE=en

Schebesta, Paul (1887-1967), anthropologist, linguist http://www.aeiou.at/aeiou.encyclop.s/s179554.htm

CURRENT RESEARCHES ON SOUTHEAST ASIA

Asia Research DataBase? / ardb (Austrian Academy of Sciences) http://www.ardb.oeaw.ac.at/

SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS

Museum of Ethnology Vienna http://www.ethno-museum.ac.at/

Austrian Academy of Sciences http://www.oeaw.ac.at/

Asea Uninet http://www.uibk.ac.at/asea-uninet/

Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna http://online.univie.ac.at/inst?lang=en&inum=A495&format=html

bnemerkungen

Uwe, ich hab mir die Freiheit und die Zeit genommen obiges gemäß Dorfwikistandards ein wenig zu formatieren und aus dem DT herauszunehmen.....

Ich denke das wird vor allem den Laurent interessieren, aber natürlich auch andere.