India and Central Asia in the ^1st millennium

The colloquium " India and Central Asia in the ^1st millennium " focuses on relations between India and Central Asia between the construction of the Kushan Empire and the decisive advance of Islam in North India and Serindia (and, perhaps concomitantly, the closure of the Dunhuang library), i.e. in the first millennium AD. It will look at the agents of exchange (travellers, pilgrims, traders, armies) ; the means and techniques of exchange (including translation techniques) ; the goods in circulation (both material and symbolic) ; technical and artistic borrowings, in both directions ; the roots and expressions of Indian cults (Hindu, Buddhist) among the populations of Central Asia. The languages of the symposium will be French and English.