Ashley Thompson to deliver talk on Recreating Angkorian Worlds

5 February 2022

On 15th March 2022, Professor Ashley Thompson - Hiram W Woodward Chair of Southeast Asian Art at SOAS - will deliver a talk entitled 'Recreating Angkorian Worlds: Out of Chaos' as part of The Courtauld's Art of the Buddhist World series. This talk will examine the reclining Buddha and Vishnu figures sculpted into the landscape of Angkor’s Kulen Mountains as embodying a site-specific re-birthing of the world. The talk is part of a book project entitled The Work of Buddhist Art: Reinventions of Angkor which has benefited from the generous support of the Robert N. Ho Foundation.

This event will take place on Tuesday 15th March 2022, 6pm - 8pm GMT, at Lecture Theatre 1, Vernon Square, and online via Livestream. Attendance is free, but online booking prior to the event is essential: for more details and to book either a ‘Livestream’ ticket or a ‘Lecture Theatre’ ticket, visit this page of The Courtauld's website .