@alicecasalini.bsky.social
Art Historian at UChicago | Buddhist Art of Gandhāra, Northern India, and Western China | Visual Artist | Cat Connoisseur
“Gandhāran” stupas generated with Canva.
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#AI has transformed historic visulisation, restoring and creating images of artifacts and sites. @alicecasalini.bsky.social presents the potential, and limitations and ethical and practical challenges of AI and deep learning.
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CFP WASTE & VALUE Conference
University of Copenhagen, 25-26 April 2024.
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⏲️ Abstracts due on 1 Feb. 2024
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Organised by the Centre for Contemporary Buddhist Studies
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Medieval manuscript illumination of the Polo brothers arriving in Bukhara, BnF Français 2810, fol. 2
CFP: The 8th Late Medieval France and Burgundy Seminar will be held at St Andrews (Scotland) on 1-2 December 2023. The theme is 'Exploration, Importation, Adaptation'. Deadline for proposals is 27 October.
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I spoke with dr Zhenru Zhou about digital reconstruction and architecture in Dunhuang, find the whole interview here for The Digital Orientalist:
digitalorientalist.com/2023/09/08/d...
More pics from my recent NY trip
14.09.2023 12:48 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I really liked it!! Such a well done museum and great exhibitions
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After all these years, I finally saw the Rubin Museum and loved it! I especially liked the show “death is not the end,” I highly recommend it
09.09.2023 18:28 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Just learned of a great opportunity for students at Big Ten schools to take first-year Sanskrit online (via CourseShare) with one of the best in the biz, Andrew Ollett (UChicago)! First quarter starts Sep. 25. You can check out his fabulous course website here: prakrit.info/vrddhi/
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I've had it with the bird site, but didn't want to lose my research tweets, especially the Medieval Buddhist of the Day series. So I built an archive site, where future posts can also live, to be linked here or wherever. So, with a strong feeling of déjà vu: welcome to my blog.
07.09.2023 07:37 — 👍 20 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0Even more important, what did Veneti do before corn
01.09.2023 21:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0What did Italians do before tomatoes
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More writing retreat goodness. Highly recommend, mental health high and a couple pages more in of my chapter in just one day
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Cursed! At the writing retreat
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My babey
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A detail of an 18th century painting showing smiling Buddhist monk named Wangchuk Drak, who holds a traditional Tibetan text
Looking to connect with those interested in Buddhist art, Buddhist Studies & Tibetan and Himalayan Studies, and digital humanities & art history more broadly.
Hoping to reel you in with this smiling Wangchuk Drak
Gandhara haunts me even in my down time
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Just came back from a week long workshop on Chinese ceramics at the Freer Gallery in DC, I had such a grand time!!
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