Aktuelles & Veranstaltungen
22/05/2025 | Film screening: Carving the Divine
Film screening
Carving the Divine – Buddhist Sculptors of Japan
22/05/2025 | 18:15 | CATS R.400.02.12 | 
[Poster]
We are happy to announce the screening of the Award winning film Carving the Divine – Buddhist Sculptors of Japan (Japan 2023). Take the opportunity to ask your questions to the director Yujiro Seki in a Q & A session afterwards. Carving the Divine is a documentary film that offers a rare look into a 1400-year-old Buddhist woodcarving tradition and the practitioners struggling to preserve its legacy in a rapidly changing Japan. The event is supported by JaDe Stiftung.
26/05/2025 | Evening Lecture by Giancarla Periti
Prof. Giancarla Periti (University of Toronto)
Early Modern Medicinal Plants in Europe and Asia: The Blue Beryl Treatise and Materia Medica
26/05/2025 | 16:00 | CATS R.120.01.10 | [Poster]
This presentation features a special lecture and discussion with Prof. Giancarla Periti (University of Toronto), focusing on early modern representations of medicinal knowledge in Europe and Tibet. We will explore visual and textual traditions, from Dioscorides’ Materia Medica (50–70 CE, foundation of European botanical medicine) to the Tibetan medical thangka, The Blue Beryl Treatise by Sangye Gyamtso (1653–1705). Issues concern how plants, healing practices, and bodily knowledge were documented and imagined across cultures. The session opens a space for comparative reflection on “magical medicine,” revealing the transcultural intersections between art, science, and spirituality in both European and Tibetan contexts. [attend online via Zoom]
