Public lecture: PD Dr. Michael Reinhard Heß (Gießen), "Fact and fiction in the Uyghur ʽhistorical novel'" (16.10.2024)
10/07/2024The Department of Sinology welcomes all students as well as everybody who is interested to the first public lecture in the winter term 2024/25. PD Dr. Michael Reinhard Heß (Gießen) will hold a lecture on "Fact and fiction in the Uyghur ʽhistorical novel'". The lecture will be held on October 16th (18:00 st) in room 17 (Philosophiegebäude).
PD Dr. Heß is a Turkologist and research fellow at the Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen. His most recent monograph was published in 2024 under the title Spuren unter dem Sand: Uigurische Literatur in Text und Kontext (Traces Beneath the Sands: Uyghur Literature in Text and Context). His presentation will focus on the genre of the Uyghur "historic novel" and the development of contemporary Uyghur literature in general.