PANEL 46 – TOWARDS A STUDY OF THE VISUAL CULTURE OF TIBET AND THE HIMALAYAS
Part I: MONDAY 20 JUNE (Auditorium E)
Part II: TUESDAY 21 JUNE (Auditorium A)
Convener: Amy Heller
Part I: MONDAY 20 JUNE (Auditorium E)
13.30-13.45: Opening of panel.
13.45-14.15: John V. Bellezza: A typological study of tiered ritual structures in the rock art of Upper Tibet.
14.15-14.45: Laurianne Bruneau: In between Kashmir and Xinjiang: Buddhist remains of the Nubra region. Results of the Indo-French Archaeological Mission in Ladakh.
14.45-15.15: David Pritzker: Allegories of kingship: animal motifs in banquet ware of the Tibetan Empire.
15.15-15.45: Coffee break.
15.45-16.15: Heinrich Poell: The Life of the Buddha on the door of the Alchi Dukhang
– iconography and art-historical considerations.
16.15-16.45: Nils Martin: New insights on some early Ladakhi murals of the “Alchi group of monuments”.
16.45-17.15: Christiane A. Kalantari: The Buddha-vita at Dung dkar, Western Tibet. Paper in Memoriam Prof. Tsering Gyalbo.
Part II: TUESDAY 21 JUNE (Auditorium A)
9.15-9.45: Christian Luczanits: Canonical illuminations: the visual subtext of a proto-Tibetan Buddhist canon of the 14th century from Mustang, Nepal.
9.45-10.15: Hans-Werner Klohe: Lama, lineage and likeness: some remarks on a set of portrait statues from Mustang.
10.15-10.45: Knud Larsen: The architecture of the Medical College on Chakpori, Lhasa. Upgraded plans based on new research.
10.45-11.15: Elisabeth Haderer: Tibetan art goes West – a further contribution to the transmission of traditional Tibetan Buddhist art to Europe in the 21st century.
11.15-11.45: Tea and coffee break.
11.45-12.15: Eva Seegers: Stūpas in Eastern Tibet after 1959.
12.15-12.45: Nicola Schneider: The female in contemporary Tibetan art: the artist Monsal Pekar (b. 1964).
12.45-13.45: LUNCH
13.45-14.15: Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy: Moving images from the Gesar heartland: the emergence of a specifically Khampa cinema?
14.15-14.45: Françoise Robin: Tibetan women on Tibetan screen: (imagi)nation and gender in Tibet.
14.45-15.15: Leigh Miller: The ‘Look of Tibet’ without religion: cases in contemporary Tibetan art.
15.15-15.45: Tea and coffee break.
15:45-16.15: Patrick Sutherland: Re-imagining the frame: some reflections on contemporary photography in Spiti.
16.15-16.45: Amy Heller: Tibetan artists and Tibetan identity: who’s who and since when?