Il Museo delle Civiltà partecipa al workshop Gandhāran Studies: A Survey presso la University of California, Berkeley
La Sezione India e Sud-Est asiatico del Museo delle Civiltà – Museo d’arte orientale ‘Giuseppe Tucci’ ha avviato diversi progetti di ricerca di carattere storico religioso, iconologico e diagnostico incentrati sull’arte del Gandhara, di cui l’Istituto conserva un’importante collezione, proveniente in buona parte dagli scavi della Missione archeologica italiana nella Valle dello Swat (Pakistan), oltreché da acquisti e donazioni.
Laura Giuliano, curatrice della collezione, è stata invitata a partecipare al workshop Gandhāran Studies: A Survey, svoltosi tra il 2 e il 4 dicembre 2021 presso il Tang Center for Silk Road Studies della University of California, Berkeley, organizzato dall’eminente numismatico Osmund Bopearachchi (Emeritus Director of Research, CNRS, Paris). e da Sanjyot Mehendale, presidente del Centro, per riferire degli esiti di alcune di queste ricerche.
Nell’ambito del convegno ha presentato l’intervento ‘The Archery Competition of Siddhārta and the Pre-Marital Ceremony in Gandhāran Art: An Example of Shared Traditions in Buddhism and Indian Epics’, in cui in chiave comparativa ha sottolineato le assonanze tra un episodio ricorrente nelle fonti agiografiche buddhiste e raffigurato sui rilievi gandharici e alcuni racconti dell’epica indiana, che trovano inoltre eco anche nella tradizione epica occidentale.
Il convegno, organizzato in occasione della mostra Beyond Boundaries: Gandharan Buddhist Art, attualmente presso il Berkeley Art Museum, curata da Julia White (senior curator, BAM) e dallo stesso Osmund Bopearachchi, (https://bampfa.org/program/beyond-boundaries-buddhist-art-gandhara) ha offerto una panoramica sullo stato degli studi gandharici, in campo archeologico, testuale, iconografico e storico religioso, come appare visibile nel programma allegato
Nel corso del mese di gennaio 2022 sul sito della University of California saranno disponibili gli interventi del workshop, di cui condivideremo i link.
Gandhāran Studies: A Survey
Thursday – Saturday December 2-4, 2021
Thursday, December 2, 2021, 4-5;30 pm.
Keynote at the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) 2155 Center Street, Berkeley
Osmund Bopearachchi (Emeritus Director of Research, CNRS, Paris) The Great Departure and the Twin Miracle: How Gandhāran Buddhist Sculptors Showcased Key Episodes in the Life of the Buddha
Friday, December 3, 2021 Workshop (in person)
370 Dwinelle Hall
12:45 – 1pm
Welcome/Introduction
Sanjyot Mehendale (Chair, Tang Center for Silk Road Studies)
Osmund Bopearachchi (Emeritus Director of Research, CNRS, Paris)
1pm – 1:45pm
Perspective of Studying Gandhāra Art by Pakistani scholars: A Critical Analysis
Muhammad Hameed (Associate Professor of Archaeology, University of the Punjab, Lahore)
1:45pm – 2:30pm
Gandhāran Inscriptions and Manuscripts: What have we learned?
Richard Salomon (Emeritus Professor of Sanskrit and Buddhist Studies, University of Washington, Seattle)
2:30 – 2:45 pm ~ Coffee/Tea Break
:45pm – 3:30pm
Digital Gandhāra: New Perspectives at the Crossroads of Art History,
Archaeology and Conservation
Serena Autiero (Research Associate, Center for Religious Studies, Ruhr- University, Bochum).
3:30pm – 4:15pm
The Archery Competition of Siddhārta and the Pre-Marital Ceremony in Gandhāran Art: An Example of Shared Traditions in Buddhism and Indian Epics
Laura Giuliano (Curator of the Indian and Southeast Asian Department, Museo delle Civiltà/Museo d’Arte Orientale ‘Giuseppe Tucci’, Rome)
4:15 – 4:30pm ~ Coffee/Tea Break
4:30pm – 5:15pm
A New Interpretation of the Kustanai Silver Bowl (Hermitage Museum):
Oedipus the King
Anca Dan (Researcher, CNRS-ENS) and Frantz Grenet (Professor, Collège de France)
5:15pm – 6pm
Gandhāran Art and its Kashmiri and Hindu Shai Afterlife
John Guy (Curator of South and Southeast Asian Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
Saturday, December 4, 2021, Workshop (via Zoom)
10 – 10:15am
Welcome/Introduction
Sanjyot Mehendale (Chair, Tang Center for Silk Road Studies)
Osmund Bopearachchi (Emeritus Director of Research, CNRS, Paris)
10:15 – 11am
Structure of the Western Gansu Corridor Prior to the Han Dynasty Occupation. Impact of the Yuezhi, Qiang, Wusun, Xiongnu and Other Local Tribes in the
Chinese Configuration of the Four Imperial Commanderies.
Arnaud Bertrand (Lecturer, Catholic Institute of Paris, Research Associate, ArScAn – Central Asian Team)
11 – 11:45am
The Coinage of the Kushans: from Silver to Gold, from Yabghus to Emperors Olivier Bordeaux (Chargé de recherche, Member, ArScAn, Archaeology of Central Asia, CNRS, Nanterre)
11:45 – 2:00 pm ~ Lunch
2:00 – 2:45pm
Italian Excavations in Gandhāra
Anna Filigenzi (Professor, University of Naples, Naples)
2:45 – 3:15pm
Digital Framework for the Research and Publication of Gandhari Manuscripts and Inscriptions
Mark Allon (Chair, Department of Indian Subcontinental Studies, University of Sydney) and Ian McCrabb (University of Sydney)
3:15 – 3:30pm ~ Break
3:30 – 4:15pm
Excavation of Zar Dheri
Yoshihide Koizumi (Curator, Kyushu National Museum, Fukuoka)
4:15 – 4:30pm
Closing Remarks
Osmund Bopearachchi (Emeritus Director of Research, CNRS, Paris
