Public lecture: PD Dr. Michael Reinhard Heß (Gießen), "Fact and fiction in the Uyghur ʽhistorical novel'" (16.10.2024)

The 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.