Seminar « Ancient Cities » - Tracing Sasanian Gardens Within and Beyond the City: Royal Parks and Palatial Landscapes in Late Antique Southwest Asia
In English
In Hybrid
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Organised in partnership with IFPO Erbil, Iraq
Ghasemi Parsa (UMR 7041 ArScAn, OrAm team)
In this presentation, Parsa Ghasemi will discuss the gardens and green spaces during the Sasanian period, focusing on both urban and rural settings across Mesopotamia and the Iranian plateau. The talk will examine how the Sasanians adapted their landscape management techniques to various environmental conditions, particularly in arid and semi-arid regions, where they ingeniously transformed barren lands into flourishing gardens and paradisiacal spaces. By analyzing archaeological evidence, this presentation will shed light on the approaches that the Sasanians used to integrate nature into their built environment, demonstrating their mastery in creating sustainable and aesthetically pleasing landscapes.
Seminar Series - Cappadocia Making: Between Territories and Landscapes of Güzelyurt, Sivrihisar, Akyamaç and Their Surroundings
In English
Aude Aylin de Tapia (Universität Freibourg) - Ottoman-Greek-Orthodox monuments in the cultural heritage of Turkey. Conversion, reappropriation, disintegration. Cappadocia as a case study.
Aude Aylin de Tapia is a Junior-Professor in Turkish and Islamic Studies at the department of Oriental Studies, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (Germany). During her PhD years, she was a fellow of the IFEA. Her main interests focus on relations between Muslims and Orthodox Christians in Ottoman and Republican Anatolia, Karamanlidika studies, shared sacred sites, and cultural heritage of Christian minorities in Turkey. She recently published her book "Orthodox Christians and Muslims in Cappadocia: Local Interactions in an Ottoman Countryside (1839-1923) (Brill, Leiden).
Jun.Professor Dr., Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg