The Oriental Institute and Orientalist Research in Czechoslovakia

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Table of Contents	Adéla Jůnová Macková and Tomáš Petrů: Introduction: The Oriental Institute and Orientalist Research in Czechoslovakia amid 20th-Century European Transformations I. Between Empathy and Exploration: Central and Eastern European Engagements with the Orient Luboš Bělka: Josef Vaniš’s Photograph of Jowo Rinpoche: From its Origin to its Recent Ritual Reincarnation Majid Bahrevar: A Tehran Flâneur: Jan Rypka’s Persian Contributions to the Literature of Surrealism Grzegorz First: Artistic Voyages to the Ancient and Modern Orient as a Source of Inspiration in the Arts: the Case of Polish Painters in 19th and Early 20th Centuries II. Scientific Exhibiting of the Orient Vesna Kamin Kajfež: Josef Schwegel (1836–1914), the Organizer and Curator of the Oriental Pavilion at the 1873 Vienna World’s Fair Markéta Hánová: A Path to the East: The Oriental Institute as a Promoter of Asian Art and Cultural Politics III. Digital Humanities, Databases, Oral History and Network of Letters in the History of Oriental Studies Petra Aigner and Ronald Růžička: All About Eduard Glaser: Glaser Virtual World (GlaViWo) and Some Remarks on His Biography Adéla Jůnová Macková: A Research Sojourn in Istanbul: The Beginnings of Turkology and Persian Studies at the Czech University through the Letters of Alois Musil, Jan Rypka, and Felix Tauer Rachael M. Griffiths and Daniel Wojahn: Challenges along the Way: Pioneering Work in the Development of Tibetan Studies in Central Europe IV. Development of Orientalist Disciplines in Former Czechoslovakia Šárka Velhartická: The Establishment of Czechoslovak Ancient Near Eastern Studies Kateřina Sládková: The Beginnings and the Founders of Indonesian Studies in Czechoslovakia Gabriel Pirický: Celebrating Twenty Years of the Annual Vámbéry International Conference in Slovakia Index

Table of Contents

Adéla Jůnová Macková and Tomáš Petrů: Introduction: The Oriental Institute and Orientalist Research in Czechoslovakia amid 20th-Century European Transformations

I. Between Empathy and Exploration: Central and Eastern European Engagements with the Orient

Luboš Bělka: Josef Vaniš’s Photograph of Jowo Rinpoche: From its Origin to its Recent Ritual Reincarnation

Majid Bahrevar: A Tehran Flâneur: Jan Rypka’s Persian Contributions to the Literature of Surrealism

Grzegorz First: Artistic Voyages to the Ancient and Modern Orient as a Source of Inspiration in the Arts: the Case of Polish Painters in 19th and Early 20th Centuries

II. Scientific Exhibiting of the Orient

Vesna Kamin Kajfež: Josef Schwegel (1836–1914), the Organizer and Curator of the Oriental Pavilion at the 1873 Vienna World’s Fair

Markéta Hánová: A Path to the East: The Oriental Institute as a Promoter of Asian Art and Cultural Politics

III. Digital Humanities, Databases, Oral History and Network of Letters in the History of Oriental Studies

Petra Aigner and Ronald Růžička: All About Eduard Glaser: Glaser Virtual World (GlaViWo) and Some Remarks on His Biography

Adéla Jůnová Macková: A Research Sojourn in Istanbul: The Beginnings of Turkology and Persian Studies at the Czech University through the Letters of Alois Musil, Jan Rypka, and Felix Tauer

Rachael M. Griffiths and Daniel Wojahn: Challenges along the Way: Pioneering Work in the Development of Tibetan Studies in Central Europe

IV. Development of Orientalist Disciplines in Former Czechoslovakia

Šárka Velhartická: The Establishment of Czechoslovak Ancient Near Eastern Studies

Kateřina Sládková: The Beginnings and the Founders of Indonesian Studies in Czechoslovakia

Gabriel Pirický: Celebrating Twenty Years of the Annual Vámbéry International Conference in Slovakia

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