Dr. Imre Galambos hosts HESCAH lecture April 14

Join us for the next HESCAH lecture at the Harn Museum of Art on Monday, April 14, 2014 at 6:00 p.m. Professor of Pre-Modern Chinese Studies at Cambridge University,Dr. Imre Galambos will be giving a lecture titled “Text and Image of Dunhuang Paintings.” Dr. Galambos will be discussing the discovery of a rich collection of manuscripts at Cave 17 of the Mogao Caves near Dunhuang on the Silk Road. Many of the paintings have inscriptions that record the names of deities or donors and thus provide much needed details about local religion and society.