SEECHAC International Colloquium

Rome, Museo Nazionale d’Arte Orientale ‘Giuseppe Tucci’, October 10th and 11^th, 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.

(second program subject to last minute changes)

Monday October 10^th 2011

9h00-9h15	Welcoming of the participants, presentation of badges and documents.
9h15- 9h40	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.
9h40-10h00	Keynote by Jacques Giès, President of Musée Guimet.
10h00-10h25	Laura Giuliano (Roma): Oēšo and the King.
10h35-11h00	Pause
11h00-11h25	Harry Falk (Berlin): The chronologies used in Indo-Scythian, Indo-Parthian and Kushan times in Greater Gandhara: a synopsis with new material.
11h35-12h00	Anna Filigenzi (Napoli): Praxis and orthopraxis in pre-medieval Buddhism: a glimpse into the relationship between lay and religious power.
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	Giovanna Lombardo (Roma): At the origins of power and sovereignty: the Late Bronze Age necropolis of Kangurttut (Southern Tadjikistan).
18h25-18h50	Margherita Mantovani (Roma): La Religione della Luce nella lettera ebraica del prete Gianni.

Tuesday October 11^th 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 XIII^e au XVIII^e 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): Structural and territorial organization of the early Tibetan polity (VII^th-IX^th c.).
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 (Milano): The main image in Gtsug lag khang or Rgyaltse and its religious and political meaning.
17h50-18h10	Lara Maconi (Paris): Le roi-lama de l’ancien royaume bouddhiste de Muli.
18h20-18h50	General discussion and closure of the colloquium.