PROGRAMMA

THURSDAY 26th FEBRUARY

Accademia Vivarium novum (Frascati)

10.00-10.30am – Institutional greetings
Luigi Miraglia (Accademia Vivarium novum)
Roberto Tottoli (University of Naples L'Orientale)
Adriano Rossi (ISMEO)
Address by H.E. Vani Rao, Ambassador of India in Rome

10.30am-12.00pm – Introductory Notes
Alessandro Taddei (Sapienza University of Rome/ISMEO), My Father
Carlo Alberto Pinelli, The Common Studies in Sapienza
Beniamino Melasecchi (ISMEO), Maurizio Taddei, Editor of East and West
Donatella Mazzeo (former Director of the National Museum of Oriental Art, Roma/ISMEO), Maurizio Taddei ed il Museo Nazionale d'Arte orientale
Pierfrancesco Callieri (University of Bologna/ISMEO), Maurizio Taddei, Director of the Italian IsMEO-IsIAO Archaeological Mission in Pakistan (1995-2000)

12.00-12.30pm – Coffee 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 (Naples)

11.00-11.50am – Institutional greetings
Roberta Giunta (direttrice DAAM, 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 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 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 – Coffee break

SATURDAY 28th FEBRUARY

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), The Archaeology of Yoga: Ascetic Practices and Images of Enlightenment from Sāñchī, Gandhāra and beyond
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, Problems of Connoisseurship in Gandhara 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 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 Roma Tor Vergata), Religious bazaars. Ritual interferences on both sides of the Erythrà thálassa
4.10pm – Q&A

4.30pm – Concert by Coro Tyrtarion