Religious Revivals and Artistic Renaissance in Central Asia and the Himalayan Region – Past and Present
November 16 – 18, 2015
Internationales Wissenschaftsforum Heidelberg Hauptstrasse 242, 69117 Heidelberg
Admission free
Organizing Committee Paris
Frantz Grenet (President of SEECHAC)
Michel Colas
Liying Kuo
Nathalie Lapierre
Marie Lecomte Tilouine
Anne Vergati
Organizing Committee Heidelberg
Birgit Kellner (Chair of Buddhist Studies)
Monica Juneja
Axel Michaels
Sophie Roche
William S. Sax
Davide Torri
With the kind support of the Ti-se Foundation
Contact for Enquiries
Secretary of the Chair of Buddhist Studies
Karl Jaspers Centre, Gebäude 4400
Voßstraße 2, 69115 Heidelberg
sek-buddhism@asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de
www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/seechac2015
PROGRAMME
15 November
18:00 – 20:00
Registration (IWH)
16 November
09:00 Registration
09:15 – 09:45 Opening Addresses
Frantz Grenet (President of SEECHAC) Birgit Kellner (University Heidelberg)
09:45 – 10:30
Marion Wettstein: Dancing in the Hills: A Comparative View on the ‘Renaissance’ of ‘Folk-Traditions’ in the Eastern Himalayas
10:30 – 11:15 Mélanie Vandenhelsken: Religious Changes and Political Agency in Sikkim
11:15 – 11:45
Coffee Break
11:45 – 12:30
Clea Chakraverty: Donyi-Polo, a Reformist and Revival ‘Tribal’ and ‘Indigeneous’ Religion in Arunachal Pradesh, North-East India: Two Approaches to Discuss
12:30 – 13:15 Jonathan Samuels: Religious Revival or Religious Conversion? Questioning Representations of Religion and Ethnicity in the Tibetan Borderlands: The Tamang People of Nepal
13:15 – 14:30 Lunch Break
14:30 – 15:15 Joona Repo: The Pure Dga’ ldan Lineage: ‘The Revival Movement’ of Pha bong kha bde chen snying po
15:15 – 16:00 Markus Viehbeck: Religious Revival in 19th Century Tibet and the Spread of a Mahāyāna Classic
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 – 17:15 Clara Ma: Early Regionalization in Western Himalayas: Development of Mahākāla Images in Alchi
17:15 – 18:00 Marialaura Di Mattia: The Artistic Renaissance in the Early Ladakhi Temples – the Instance of the Marvellous Wood-Carvings at the Alci Chos ‘khor
18:00 – 19:00
Keynote Lecture
Christian Luczanits: Processes of Revival in Himalayan Art: Imagining Kashmir and Nepal in the 15th and 17th Centuries
19:00 – 20:00
Reception at IWH
20:15
Dinner (Participants)
17 November
09:00 – 09:45
Ebru Zeren: An Analytical Approach to the Contribution of Uygurs in the Renaissance of Mahāyāna Art in Turfan
09:45 – 10:30 Haiyan Hu-von Hinüber: Buddhist Procession and Performance in Central Asia and North India in the 5th Century – According to Faxian’s Travel Report
10:30 – 11:15 Liying Kuo: Buddhoṣṇīṣa-vijayā-dhāraṇī Wall-paintings in Dunhuang Caves and Their Religio-political Aspects
11:15 – 11:45 Coffee Break
11:45 – 12:30 Lewis Doney: The Fourteenth-Century Re-birth of Tibetan Historiography after the Period of Mongol Hegemony
12:30 – 13:15 Daniele Cuneo & Camillo Formigatti: The Malla Renaissance: Towards a Literary and Cultural History of Nepal in the 14th-18th Centuries
13:15 – 14:30
Lunch Break
14:30 – 15:15
Christiane Brosius: ‘Out here’ No more: Exploring Nepali Contemporary Art Production
15:15 – 16:00 Galina Sychenko & Alisa Zolotukhina: Phurdok Ritual (Phur-pa Puja) and Reconstruction of the Hyolmo Identity
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 – 17:15 Davide Torri: The Importance of Being a Beyul: Landscape, Buddhism, Shamanism and Identity among the Nepal’s Hyolmo
17:15 – 18:00 Martin Gaenszle: Bhakti and Shamanism: Josmani Influence on the New Kiranti Religion
18:00 – 19:00
Evening Lecture
Harry Falk: Royal Inthronisation Rites from Commagene to the Kushans and Beyond
19:15 Dinner (Participants)
18 November
09:00 – 09:45 Laurianne Bruneau: In Between Kashmir and Xinjiang: Buddhist Remains of the Nubra Region, Ladakh. Results of the Indo-French Archaeological Mission in Ladakh
09:45 – 10:30 Elena Paskaleva: Timurid Neo-Renaissance in Independent Uzbekistan after 1991
10:30 – 11:15 Gulnara Aitpaeva: Sacred Geography of Kyrgyzstan: Linking Spirituality and Arts
11:15 – 11:45 Coffee Break
11:45 – 12:30 Sophie Roche: The Qalandar Khona in Khujand Facing the Wave of Islamization
12:30 – 13:15 Suzanne Marten-Finnis: Mapping Out Bukhara – Ethnographic Reports for the Soviet Reorganization of Labour
13:15 – 14:30 Lunch Break
14:30 – 15:15 Nandini Bhattacharya: Revival of Miniature Painting in Post-Soviet Tajikistan: An Artistic Renaissance Heralded by Olim Kamalov
15:15 – 16:00 Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko: Aspiring to Enlightenment: Practicing Purification in Postsocialist Mongolia
16:00 – 16:30 Closing Remarks
16:30 – 17:00 Coffee