Rome, Museo Nazionale d’Arte Orientale”Giuseppe
Tucci”, October 10th and 11th 2011
Politics and religions in the Himalayas and Central
Asia.
The political and religious expression of
sovereignty in the Himalayas and Central Asia: rituals, texts,
representations and institutions, from antiquity till now.
(program subject to last minute changes)
Monday October 10th 2011
| 9h00-9h15 | Welcoming of the participants, presentation of badges and documents. |
| 9h15- 9h 40 | Opening of the colloquium. Welcoming speeches by Dr Luigi La Rocca, Superintendent of MNAO, Dr Massimiliano A. Polichetti, Prof. Gerard Fussman and Prof. Anna Maria Quagliotti. |
| 9h40-10h | Jacques Giès (Paris): Translation, bouddhisme en Asie Centrale, IVe-IXe siècles. |
| 10h-10h25 | Deborah Klimburg-Salter (Wien): Visual Rhetoric: the Kashmiri style in Tibetan Art. |
| 10h35-11h00 | Pause |
| 11h-11h25 | Harry Falk (Berlin): The chronologies used in Indo-Scythian, Indo-Parthian and Kushan times in Greater Gandhara: a synopsis with new material. |
| 11h35-12h00 | Giovanna Lombardo (Roma): At the origins of power and sovereignty: the Late Bronze Age necropolis of Kangurttut (Southern Tadjikistan). |
| 12h10-12h35 | Zafar Paiman (Kabul and Paris): Le monastère de Tepe Narenj: un témoignage de l’art “hephthalo-bouddhique”. |
| 12h45-14h30 | Lunch pause |
| 14h30-14h55 | Katsumi Tanabe (Tokyo) : Iconographical study of a limestone Buddhist relief allegedly unearthed in Northern Afghanistan. |
| 15h05-15h30 | Erika Forte (Wien): Ensuring sovereignty: the Buddhist legitimization of the Kingdom of Khotan. |
| 15h40-16h05 | Ciro Lo Muzio (Roma): Bird symbolism in Central Asian headgears. |
| 16h15-16h40 | Pause |
| 16h40-17h05 | Arcangela Santoro (Roma): The universal sovereignty of the Buddha in Kizil. |
| 17h15-17h40 | Lore Sander (Berlin): Donors in Kizil caves. |
| 17h50-18h15 | Anna Filigenzi (Napoli, Wien): Praxis and orthopraxis in pre-medieval Buddhism: a glimpse into the relationship between lay and religious power. |
| 18h25-18h50 | Margherita Mantovani (Roma): La Religione della Luce nelle lettere ebraiche del prete Gianni. |
Tuesday October 11th 2011
| 9h00-9h25 | Bruno Genito (Napoli): Scythic kurgans and kingship. |
| 9h35-10h10 | Isabelle Charleux (Paris): Rois et reines dans les portraits des souverains mongols du XIIIe au XVIIIe siècle. |
| 10h15-10h40 | Patrizia Cannata (Roma): Religions as a tool for political control and national identity’s statement in the Uyghur empire. |
| 10h50-11h15 | Pause |
| 11h15-11h40 | Paola Mortari Vergara Caffarelli (Roma): Pelden Lhamo, The protective goddess of the Dalaï Lamas in Tibetan architecture and art. |
| 11h50-12h10 | David Pritzker (Oxford): Rin chen bzang po and the treasures of mKha rtse. |
| 12h10-12h35 | Charles Ramble (Paris): How to be a good king: Tibetan treatises on monarchy and statecraft. |
| 12h45-14h30 | Lunch pause |
| 14h30-14h55 | Hubert Feiglstorfer (Wien): Architectural concepts, layout and structure of religio-political centres in historical Western Tibet. |
| 15h05-15h30 | Christiane Kalantari (Wien): Iconography of sovereignty and religio-political power in early Western Tibet. |
| 15h40-16h05 | Christian Jahoda (Wien): Festival and ritual tradition in key religio-political centers of historical Western Tibet (mNga’ris skor gsum). |
| 16h15-16h40 | Pause |
| 16h40-17h05 | Marialaura Di Mattia (Roma): The religious factor as a political tool in the establishment of the Western Himalayan kingdoms. |
| 17h15-17h40 | Erberto Lo Bue (Bologna): The main image in Gtsug lag khang of Rgyal rtse and its religious and political meaning. |
| 17h50-18h10 | Laura Giuliano (Roma): Oēšo and the King. |
| 18h20-18h50 | General discussion and closure of the colloquium. |