Nov 25 2007
I found an interesting article on the Transoxiana website. Considering literary sources as well as archaeological evidence it discusses Buddhist activity in pre-Islamic Iran. The article concludes that caves dating to the Ilkhanid era remain the only certain traces of Buddhist activity in Iran.
Read the article here.
Nov 21 2007
Date: 28.11.2007, 09:00 - 19:00 Uhr
Location: Einsteinsaal der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Jägerstr. 22/23, 10117 Berlin
Vortragsreihe zur Sogdiana, veranstaltet von der Turfanforschung (BBAW)
Der Workshop am 28. November 2007 widmet sich dem Austausch zwischen Archäologen und Philologen zur Sogdiana im ersten Jahrtausend u.Z. Die Vorträge von auswärtigen und in Berlin ansässigen Archäologen und Philologen sind in englischer Sprache. Kleine Veränderungen im Programm können sich noch ergeben.
Nov 05 2007
This may be useful for those who have a hard time using Unicode to display diacritics in (the output of) their LaTeX files. Given that you run a fairly up to date Debian system, then all you need to do is to insert the following three lines into your LaTeX files:
\usepackage{ucs}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
This should do it. Variations of the first two lines seem to be possible, important is that you specify T1 (8bit) instead of the default OT1 (7bit), if you use diacritics in your files.
If you know a better way, please let me know too!