PROGRAMMA

THURSDAY 26th FEBRUARY

Accademia Vivarium novum - Villa Falconieri (Frascati)

10.00-10.30am Institutional Greetings

Luigi Miraglia (President, Accademia Vivarium Novum)
Roberto Tottoli (Rector, University of Naples L’Orientale)
Adriano Rossi (President, ISMEO)
Address by H.E. Vani Rao, Ambassador of India in Rome

10.30am-12.00pm Introductory Notes – Chair Anna Filigenzi
Alessandro Taddei (Sapienza University of Rome/ISMEO), My Father
Carlo Alberto Pinelli, Our Common Studies in Sapienza
Donatella Mazzeo (Former Director of the National Museum of Oriental Art, Roma/ISMEO), Maurizio Taddei and the National Museum of Oriental Art
Pierfrancesco Callieri (University of Bologna/ISMEO), Maurizio Taddei, Director of the Italian IsMEO-IsIAO Archaeological Mission in Pakistan (1995-2000)
Beniamino Melasecchi (ISMEO), Maurizio Taddei, Editor of East and West
Filippo Coarelli (University of Perugia), Maurizio Taddei, Friend and Colleague

12.00-12.30pm Coffe break

12.30-1.50pm Session 1 – Chair Luca M. Olivieri
12.30pm Michael Alram (Austrian Academy of Sciences/ISMEO), Arturo Annucci (Italian Institute of Numismatics), The Coin Finds from Tapa Sardar and Ghazni
1.10pm Deborah Klimburg-Salter (Prof. Emerita, University of Vienna/ISMEO), Hindu Themes in the Buddhist Art of the Shahi Period
1.30pm Q&A

1.50-3.20pm Lunch

3.20-4.20pm Session 2 – Chair Deborah Klimburg-Salter
3.20pm Anna Filigenzi (University of Naples L’Orientale/ISMEO), Shared Visual Grammars of Late Antique Buddhism: some Evidence from Afghanistan and Neighbouring Regions
3.40pm Giulia Forgione (University of Naples L’Orientale/ISMEO), Ongoing Studies about Tapa Sardar: Graphic Anastylosis and Interpretative Challenges
4.00pm Q&A
6.00pm Concert Soundscape by Duo Rasa

7.30pm Social Dinner

FRIDAY 27th FEBRUARY

University of Naples L’Orientale - Palazzo Corigliano (Naples)

11.00-11.50am Institutional Greetings and Introductory Notes
Roberto Tottoli (Rector, University of Naples L’Orientale)
Bruno D’Agostino (University of Naples L’Orientale), Remembering Maurizio Taddei, Friend and Companion
Bruno Genito (University of Naples L’Orientale/ISMEO), Archaeology and/vs Art History in Maurizio Taddei’s Thought
Romila Thapar (Prof. Emerita, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi), Remembering Maurizio Taddei

11.50am-12.20pm Coffee break

12.20-1.40pm Session 3 – Chair Pierfrancesco Callieri
12.20pm Luca M. Olivieri (University Ca’ Foscari of Venice/ISMEO), A Lesser-known Excavation by Maurizio Taddei. Butkara IV: Genetics, Archaeology, Art and Power at the Turn of the 1st Century CE in Swat
12.40pm Elisa Iori (University Ca’ Foscari of Venice/ISMEO), Faccenna, Taddei: Butkara I and Panr
1.00pm Massimo Vidale (University of Padua/ISMEO), Dear Maurizio, …
1.20pm Q&A

1.40-3.10pm Lunch

3.10-4.50pm Session 4 – Chair Juhyung Rhi
3.10pm Shoshin Kuwayama/Minoru Inaba (Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University), Staired Stupa and the Beginning of the Buddha Statue Project in Taxila
3.30pm Cristiano Moscatelli (University of Naples L’Orientale/ISMEO), Remarks on a Neglected Gesture in the “Erotic Couples” from Butkara I (Swat, Northwestern Pakistan) and Related Iconographic Motifs in Gandharan Art
3.50 pm Christian Luczanits (SOAS University of London), Revisiting the Bodhisattva Maitreya in Gandhāran Art
4.10pm Doris Srinivasan (Stony Brook University), Who Are the ‘Folk’ in Gandhāran Folk Art?
4.30 pm Q&A

4.50-5.20pm Coffe break

SATURDAY 28th FEBRUARY

Accademia Vivarium novum - Villa Falconieri (Frascati)

10.00-11.00am Session 5 – Chair Vincent Lefèvre
10.00am Chandreyi Basu (St Lawrence University), Trans-regional Mobilities: The Role of Buddhist Monks in Transferring Kneeling Worshipper Imagery in Mathura Sculpture
10.20am Pia Brancaccio (University of Naples L’Orientale/ISMEO), Kings, Portraits and Caves: The Buddhist Monastery at Nasik and the Edge of the Western Deccan between the Kṣatrapas and the Sātavāhanas
10.40am Q&A

11.00-11.30am Coffee break

11.30am-1.00pm Session 6 – Chair Federico De Romanis
11.30pm Laura Giuliano (Museum of Civilizations, Rome/ISMEO), Siddhārtha’s Archery Contest in Gandhāran Art: Comparative Perspectives on Buddhist Visual Narrative and Indian Epic Tradition
11.50am Ciro Lo Muzio (Sapienza University of Rome), The Afterlife of a Classical Motif in a Khotanese Buddhist Temple
12.10pm Monika Zin (Leipzig University/ISMEO), Painted Jātaka Friezes from Gandhara
12.30pm Q&A

1.00-2.30pm Lunch

2.30-4.30pm Session 7 – Chair Pia Brancaccio
2.30pm Juhyung Rhi (Seoul Natonal University), Problems of Connoisseurship in Gandharan Art
2.50pm Vincent Lefèvre (Sorbonne University/ISMEO), Artworks from Gandhara and Greater Gandhara in French Public Collections
3.10pm Christina Scherrer-Schaub (Prof. Emerita, University of Lausanne), Sūtra, dhāraṇī, and vidyārājñī: Devī? Buddha! Questioning the Divine Status in and around Gandhāra from a Polyhedral Perspective
3.30pm Francesco Sferra (University of Naples L’Orientale/ISMEO), On the Characteristic Marks of a Great Man
3.50pm Federico De Romanis (University of Rome Tor Vergata), Religious Bazaars. Ritual Interferences on both Sides of the Erythrà thálassa
4.10pm Q&A

4.30pm Concert by Coro Tyrtarion