Global Connections of Gandharan Art Workshop 18th-19th March 2019
The 'Global Connections of Gandharan Art' took place in Oxford on 18th-19th March 2019 and examines the links between Gandharan art and other artistic traditions, including not only those of Greece and Rome, but also China, the Iranian world, and the Indian Subcontinent.
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Click here for speakers' abstracts.Monday 18th March 2019Session One: 0945 – 1100Dr Peter Stewart (Director, Classical Art Research Centre)Welcome and IntroductionWarwick Ball (Editor-in-Chief, Afghanistan)The Orbit of Gandharan Studies
Session Two: 1130 – 1230Dr Marike van Aerde (Leiden University)The Buddha and the Silk Roads: Gandharan Connections through the Karakorum Mountains and Indian Ocean PortsSession Three: 1400 – 1600Martina Stoye (Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin)On the Crossroads of Disciplines: A theory of Understanding Roman Art Images & Its Implications for the Study of Western Influence(s) in Gandharan ArtDr Peter Stewart (CARC, Oxford)Roman Sarcophagi and Gandharan SculptureSession Four: 1630 – 1800Dr Tadashi Tanabe (Soka University, Tokyo/ LMU, Munich)The Transmission of Dionysiac Imagery to Gandharan Buddhist ArtProf Ian Haynes (Newcastle University), Iwan Peverett, and Dr Wannaporn Rienjang (CARC)3D-Modelling of the Main Stupa at Saidu Sharif: A ProvocationTuesday 19th March 2019Session Five: 1000 – 1100Ken Ishikawa (Wolfson College, Oxford)More Gandhara than Mathura: Substantial and Persistent Gandharan Influence Provincialised in the Buddhist Material Culture of Gujarat ca. 400–550 ADSession Six: 1130 – 1230Shumpei Iwai (Ryukoku Museum, Kyoto)Buddhist Temples in Tokharistan and their Relationships with Gandharan TraditionsSession Seven: 1400 – 1600Dr Joy Lidu Yi (Florida International University, Miami)Cross-Cultural Buddhist Cave-Monasteries: Yungang, the Silk Road and BeyondProfessor Yang Juping (Nankai University, Tianjin)The Sinicization and Secularization of Gandhara Art in China, With Some Greco-Buddhist Gods as ExamplesSession Eight: 1630 – 1730Dr Christian Luczanits (SOAS, London)Gandharan Art and the Himalayas
