Deborah Klimburg-Salter to Give Lecture at ISAW

Dr. Deborah Klimburg-Salter is Professor for Asian Art History at the Institute for Art History, University of Vienna. She has also been a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania, University of Oxford, The Ecole Practique des Hautes Etudes, and Wellesley College. She specializes in South and Central Asian art history and is the author of numerous books and articles including Tabo Monastery: Art and History (2005) , Tabo: a lamp for a kingdom: Early Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Art in the Western Himalaya (1997), and The Cultural History of Western Tibet (ed. with Junyun, Tauscher, and Yuan 2008). She is a member of the European Association of South Asian Archaeologists in Western Europe (EASAA) and since 2007 has directed the research project "The Cultural History of the Western Himalaya from the 8th Century" at the National Research Network, sponsored by the Austrian Science Fund.

Dr. Klimburg-Salter will be presenting a lecture at ISAW on Tuesday, November 8th at 6pm on "New Archaeological Discoveries in Afghanistan: Mes Aynak, Tepe Naranj and the Buddhist Art of the Kabul River Valley".