Cycle - Approches anthropologiques et historiques du sensible |
The Circulation of Middle Eastern Objects in the pre-modern period and their interpretation within new cultural settings
Anna Contadini
Salle 737, 54 boulevard Raspail 75006 Paris
This lecture will explore changing perceptions of the Pisa Griffin and other objects and will present for the first time a range of new finding stemming from my long-standing research involvement with the Pisa Griffin and the Mari-Cha Lion. It will also discuss issues of transculturation, showing how a close focus on individual artefacts can help to answer broader historical, cultural and technological questions that span ideological divides.
Anna Contadini is Professor (full) of the History of Islamic Art and Director of the “Treasures of SOAS Project” at SOAS, University of London. She is also the Director of the international project “The Pisa Griffin and the Lion”. She has just finished her 4-year term as Director of the School of Arts at SOAS (2014-18). Her areas of interest are Arabic and Persian illustrated manuscripts, material culture of the Islamic world, and the artistic and cultural connections between the Middle East and Europe, especially Italy.
Her publications span studies of illustrated manuscripts, text and image in Islamic art, questions of materiality and transculturation, and the agency of objects within a broader artistic and social-historical context. She has just finished a project on the Pisa Griffin and the Mari-Cha Lion and she is currently working on a project on illustrated medieval manuscripts of the Maghreb and Spain.
She will take part of Visting Professors Program designed by EHESS, on proposal of Anna Caiozzo (Université Bordeaux-Montaigne).
Les sites du CEIAS
- SAMAJ | The South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal
- CEIAS - Facebook
- CEIAS - Twitter
- CEIAS - Newsletter
- Le Bulletin de la Bibliothèque
- Régionalisme & cosmopolitisme
- DELI | Dictionnaire Encyclopédique des Littératures de l’Inde
- DHARMA | The Domestication of “Hindu” Asceticism and the Religious Making of South and Southeast Asia
- TST | Texts Surrounding Texts
- STARS | Studies in Tamil Studio Archives and Society 1880-1980
- I-SHARE | The Indian Subcontinent’s Shared Sacred Sites
- Sri Lanka et diasporas
- Sindhi Studies Group
- Carnet du Master Études asiatiques
- Master “Asian Studies”
- Social Sciences Winter School in Pondicherry
- Caste, Land and Custom
- Musiques indiennes en terres créoles
Actualités
Devenir juifs : conversions et assertions identitaires en Inde et au Pakistan
Débat - Mardi 9 mai 2023 - 14:00Présentation« L’an prochain à Jérusalem ! », scande un homme portant une kippa dans une synagogue de Karachi au Pakistan. Ses paroles sont répétées en chœur par les membres de sa communauté, un groupe comptant près de trois cents personnes qui s’autodésignent par (...)(...)
Le Centre d'études sud-asiatiques et himalayennes (Cesah), nouveau laboratoire de recherche (EHESS/CNRS) sur le Campus Condorcet
Échos de la recherche -Depuis le 1er janvier 2023, l'EHESS, en tant que co-tutelle, compte un nouveau centre de recherche né de la fusion du Centre d'études de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud (CEIAS - EHESS/CNRS) et du Centre d’études himalayennes (CEH - CNRS) : le Centre d'études sud-asiatiques et h (...)(...)
Centre d'Études de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud
UMR8564 - CNRS / EHESS
54 boulevard Raspail
75006 Paris, France
Tél. : +33 (0)1 49 54 83 94
Communication :
nadia.guerguadj[at]ehess.fr
Direction :
dir.ceias[at]ehess.fr
La bibliothèque du CEIAS
Maison de l'Asie
22 avenue du Président Wilson 75016 Paris
54 boulevard Raspail
purushartha[at]ehess.fr