From Asian Earth: Ceramics of South and Southeast Asia
IIAS - ABIA Seminar 2006
13 January 2006
Leiden University
Nonnensteeg (Leiden), Room 329
Convenors Dr. Ellen M. Raven and Drs Gerda Theuns-de Boer
Ceramic materials, from day-to-day cooking vessels and roofing tiles to burial urns ‘for eternity' are one of the prime archaeological materials to illustrate man's skills to master the working of clay. Through their durability, ceramics are also the prime expression of regionalism. The exchange of ceramics, and even more so, of their forms and shapes, offers us insight into the distribution and exchange networks of the Asian world.
Archaeologists and art historians from South Asia, Southeast Asia and Western Europe come together for a one-day seminar to discuss and illustrate ceramics of South and Southeast Asia. They will focus on trade and excavated finds, on technical aspects of ceramic materials, on chronological issues, and on the evolving forms and varying functions of ceramics of their choice.
Programme
9.15 Welcome
Keynote address by John Guy (V&A, London)
From Arikamedu to Hoi An: 1500 years of ceramic trade in Asian waters
Prof. Farid Khan (Pakistan)
Ceramics excavated in the Bannu basin, NWFP, Pakistan
Ca. 10.45 h. Coffee/tea
Prof. Enamul Haque (Bangladesh)
The ceramics of Bangladesh from the archaeological excavations.
Dr. Ellen M. Raven (Netherlands)
Gupta period ceramics from excavation contexts
12.15-13.30 h. Lunch break
Dr. Shaphalya Amatya (Nepal)
The terracotta art of Nepal-Mandala or the Kathmandu valley
Prof. Nimal de Silva (Sri Lanka)
Form and configuration of archaeological ceramic excavations in Sri Lanka
Dr. Kalyan Kumar Chakravarty (India)
Indian ceramics: An ethnoarchaeological perspective
15.00 Tea
Prof. Edi Sedyawati (Indonesia)
Title to be announced
Dr. Mohd. Kamaruzaman A. Rahman (Malaysia)
Malaysian trade: the ceramic evidence
Drs Gerda Theuns-de Boer (The Netherlands)
Early photographic representation of South Asian ceramics
17. 00 Closing statements
17.15 - 18.15 Reception
The seminar is open to the public
The South and Southeast Asian Art and Archaeology Index (ABIA) project is a global network of scholars co-operating on an online annotated bibliographic database for publications covering South and Southeast Asian art and archaeology.
www.abia.net
Currently the head office of ABIA is PGIAR, Colombo, Sri Lanka, which is run by Prof. Nilam De Silva.
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