© Musée Guimet/Thierry Ollivier
| DATE: | Friday-Saturday, November 14-15, 2008 |
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| PLACE: | Chevron Auditorium, International House, UC Berkeley |
| SPONSORS: | Center for Buddhist Studies (CBS), Al-Falah Program for Islamic Studies (CMES), Townsend Center for the Humanities, Center for South Asia Studies (CSAS), Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES), History of Art Department, Society for Asian Art, Association for the Protection of Afghan Archaeology (APAA), California State University-East Bay, Consulate General of France, International House, and Willis Deming on behalf of the Society for Art & Cultural Heritage of India (SACHI) |
This conference is organized in conjunction with the "Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul" exhibit which will be on display at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, October 24, 2008 - January 25, 2009. For more information regarding the organization of the exhibit by National Geographic Society, please visit http:// www.nationalgeographic.com/ mission/ afghanistan-treasures/.
This conference is free and open to the public. No pre-registration is required. The cafe at the International House opens at 7:15 on Friday and 9:30 on Saturday. The auditorium will open at 8:30 a.m. both days.
Schedule subject to change — please check for updates
Thursday, November 13, 2008
10:00 am - 9:00 pm
Afghan exhibition viewing, Ground Floor Galleries
6:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Rebab music by Aziz Herawi, Samsung Hall
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Panel Discussion in the Afghan Dari language only, Samsung Hall
Space in Samsung Hall is limited. To attend the Dari language panel discussion, please RSVP to (415) 581-3665 or e-mail rsvp "at" apaa.info.
Admission to the Asian Art Museum is $5 after 5:00 pm on Thursdays; $12 during the day, and free every first Sunday of the month and to members of the Asian Art Museum.
Friday, November 14, 2008
9:00 am - 9:30 am
Welcome remarks
Sanjyot Mehendale, Conference Organizer
Pierre-François Mourier, Consul General of France
Atiqullah Atifmal, Consul General of Afghanistan
9:30 am - 12:00 pm
David Stronach: Chair
Mohammad Qayoumi: The Future of Afghanistan's Past: Valuing Cultural Heritage
Zemaryalai Tarzi: Treasures of Afghanistan, As Seen Through the Eyes of a Former Official in Charge of the Archaeological Heritage of Afghanistan
Fredrik Hiebert: Afghanistan's Hidden Treasures: Inventorying the Kabul Museum Collection Held in the Presidential Palace
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Andrew Stewart: Chair
Fredrik Hiebert: The Bronze Age Origins of Bactrian Civilization
Osmund Bopearachchi: Hellenism in Central Asia and its Impact on Gandhâran Buddhist Art
3:15 pm - 5:00 pm
Joanna Williams: Chair
Veronique Schiltz: The Royal Necropolis of Tillya-Tepe and the Iconography of Power
Esther Jacobson-Tepfer: Image and Order in the Art of Tillya-Tepe and their Early Nomadic Sources
Sanjyot Mehendale: The Begram Carvings: Itinerancy and the Problems of "Indian" Art
Saturday, November 15, 2008
9:00 am - 10:30 am
Pat Berger: Chair
Zemaryalai Tarzi: Results of the 2002-2008 Surveys and Archaeological Campaigns in Bamiyan
Richard Salomon: Recent Buddhist Manuscript Discoveries from Bamiyan: Controversies and Discoveries
10:45 am - 12:30 pm
Munis Faruqui: Chair
Barry Flood: From Dystopia to Utopia: Shifting Meanings of the Minaret of Jam
Soheila Amirsoleimani: Clothing in the Early Ghaznavid Courts: Hierarchy and Mystification
Wali Ahmadi: Resistance, Dissent, and Despair in the Age of Interminable Trauma: Reflections on Contemporary Poetry of Afghanistan
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Sanjyot Mehendale: Chair
Omar Sultan: Cultural Heritage in Afghanistan
Nadia Tarzi: Preserving the Cultural Identity of Afghanistan, a Collective Effort
Charles C. Kolb: Preserving Afghanistan's Archaeological and Other Cultural Resources
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Roundable moderated by Mohammad Qayoumi
Participants:
Wali Ahmadi
Soheila Amirsoleimani
Omar Sultan
Nadia Tarz
Zemaryalai Tarzi
