The Gunnar Jarring Lectures Each year, the SRII, organizes a lecture in honour of the turcologist, former ambassador and chairman of the SRII, the late Gunnar Jarring. The 2006 lecture is given by prof. Abdurishid Yakup over the subject "The Uyghur heritage", in the auditorium at Medelhavsmuseets Monday October 9, 18.30. Previous Gunnar Jarring lectures: 1. Lars Johansson, Discoveries on the Turkic Linguistic map (1997). 2. Staffan Rosén, Kring manuskriptfynden i Taklamakan-öknen (1999). 3. Bernt Brendemoen, Dialektologi og historie: Tyrkisk og gresk interaksjon ved Svartehavskysten (2000). 4. Geoffrey Lewis, The Turkish Language Reform: A Catastrophic Success (2002) 5. Carter V. Findley, Presenting the Ottomans to Europe Mouradgea d'Ohsson and his tableau général de l'Empire othoman (2002) 6. Ilhan Basgöz, The Romance Tradition in Turkey and in the Middle East (2004) 7. Éva Á. Csató Johansson, Gunnar Jarring and the problem of the emergence of the Kashkay language in Iran (2005) 8. Abdurishid Yakup, The Uyghar heritage