Public Lecture by Julia Hegewald

Julia Hegewald is professor of Oriental Art History at the University of Bonn and principal investigator at the BCDSS. She works on artistic and architectural expressions of different forms of dependency in Asia, particularly South Asia, art and architecture. In her lecture she explores "Vīra-Śaiva and Jaina Rivalries in Medieval South India. Creating and Overcoming Structures of Dependency".
Her lecture marks the start of the second part of the lecture series organized by the Centre for Religion and Society (ZERG) and the BCDSS, Research Area C: "Control, Coercion, and Constraint II. The Role of Religion in Overcoming and Creating Structures of Dependency". The lecture series tackles the role of religion in both overcoming existing and creating new forms and types of dependencies.
This is a hybrid event. The lectures series will also be streamed via youtube.