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The chair Biography and publications Public lectures Guest lecturers Annual summaries Team and contact Audios and videos News Upcoming Previous Lecture 6 Mar 2025 15:30 - 16:30 Frantz Grenet Paintings with epic subjects: proto-Shâhnâme and others… Lecture 13 Mar 2025 15:30 - 16:30 Frantz Grenet Identifying the subjects of painted folktales (Aesopian repertory, Pancatantr… Lecture 20 Mar 2025 15:30 - 16:30 Frantz Grenet Identifying the subjects of painted folktales (Aesopian repertory, Pancatantra, other Indian r… Lecture 27 Mar 2025 15:30 - 16:30 Frantz Grenet Outlook Symposium 02 Jul 2025 → 03 Jul 2025 Frantz Grenet Sogdiane: state of the art and research in progress Next 25 series Filters Event type Event type Lecture (12) Seminar (6) Symposium (6) Opening lecture (1) Academic year Academic year 2024 - 2025 (2) 2023 - 2024 (2) 2022 - 2023 (2) 2021 - 2022 (2) 2020 - 2021 (2) 2019 - 2020 (1) 2018 - 2019 (2) 2017 - 2018 (3) 2016 - 2017 (2) 2015 - 2016 (2) 2014 - 2015 (2) 2013 - 2014 (3) 2024 - 2025 Lecture Central Asia's lost literatures saved by the figurative arts Frantz Grenet 09 Jan 2025 → 27 Mar 2025 09 Jan 2025 → 27 Mar 2025 Symposium Sogdiane: state of the art and research in progress Frantz Grenet 02 Jul 2025 → 03 Jul 2025 02 Jul 2025 → 03 Jul 2025 2023 - 2024 Lecture Non-Buddhist temples in Bactria and Sogdiana (continued). 2) New archaeological data on Sogdian oases Frantz Grenet 11 Jan 2024 → 28 Mar 2024 11 Jan 2024 → 28 Mar 2024 Seminar A New Reading of Chinese Accounts on the Yuezhi and Early Kushans, in Relation with the Recently Discovered Inscriptions at Almosi (Tajikistan) Frantz Grenet 03 May 2024 → 14 Jun 2024 03 May 2024 → 14 Jun 2024 2022 - 2023 Symposium Around the exhibition " Splendors of Uzbekistan's oases : new terrains, new issues " Frantz Grenet 16 Jan 2023 → 17 Jan 2023 16 Jan 2023 → 17 Jan 2023 Lecture Prestige silver in Central Asia (continued) : Homer, Alexander. Non-Buddhist temples in Bactria and Sogdiana Frantz Grenet 19 Jan 2023 → 25 May 2023 19 Jan 2023 → 25 May 2023 2021 - 2022 Lecture Prestigious silverware in Central Asia : a mode of political and ideological expression Frantz Grenet 06 Jan 2022 → 31 Mar 2022 06 Jan 2022 → 31 Mar 2022 Seminar New approaches to Central Asia from Chinese sources (mainly Tongdian) (2) : Sogdiana (continued), Tarim kingdoms Frantz Grenet 12 May 2022 → 23 Jun 2022 12 May 2022 → 23 Jun 2022 2020 - 2021 Lecture Prestigious silver in Sassanid Iran and Central Asia : a mode of political and ideological expression Frantz Grenet 14 Jan 2021 → 20 May 2021 14 Jan 2021 → 20 May 2021 Seminar New approach to Chinese sources (mainly Tongdian) in Central Asia west of the Pamirs Frantz Grenet 22 Jan 2021 → 28 May 2021 22 Jan 2021 → 28 May 2021 2019 - 2020 Lecture No lectures this year Frantz Grenet 01 Sep 2019 01 Sep 2019 2018 - 2019 Lecture Bactria and Sogdiana on both sides of the Arab conquest (7th-9th century) : a shift in civilization ? Frantz Grenet 10 Jan 2019 → 28 Mar 2019 10 Jan 2019 → 28 Mar 2019 Symposium India and Central Asia in the 1st millennium Frantz Grenet 05 Jun 2019 → 06 Jun 2019 05 Jun 2019 → 06 Jun 2019 2017 - 2018 Lecture Central Asian communities in China, 3rd-8th century : social role, religions, art Frantz Grenet 11 Jan 2018 → 05 Apr 2018 11 Jan 2018 → 05 Apr 2018 Symposium Ustrushana in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages : from the margins of Oekumene to the heart of Abbasid power Frantz Grenet 18 May 2018 18 May 2018 Symposium Hieroglossia III : Persian and Syro-Aramaic and their relationship with Arabic Jean-Noël Robert, Frantz Grenet 25 Jun 2018 25 Jun 2018 2016 - 2017 Lecture The urban fact in pre-Islamic Central Asia : diachronic approach, synchronic approach, III : the urban crisis and reurbanization (IIIe-VIe s.), a general process ? (continued) Frantz Grenet 12 Jan 2017 → 30 Mar 2017 12 Jan 2017 → 30 Mar 2017 Seminar Ferdowsi's Book of Kings and the Sistani epics : textual strata, iconographic strata Frantz Grenet 24 Feb 2017 → 02 Jun 2017 24 Feb 2017 → 02 Jun 2017 2015 - 2016 Seminar Marriage and households from Bactrian, Sogdian and Chorasmian documents, 3rd-8th c. Frantz Grenet 12 Feb 2016 → 08 Apr 2016 12 Feb 2016 → 08 Apr 2016 Lecture 10:00 - 11:00 Introduction to Yutaka Yoshida's lecture : the rediscovery of Manichaean dialectic art Frantz Grenet 03 May 2016 Amphithéâtre Maurice Halbwachs, Site Marcelin Berthelot 03 May 2016 10:00 - 11:00 2014 - 2015 Lecture The urban phenomenon in pre-Islamic Central Asia : diachronic and synchronic approaches (continued) Frantz Grenet 26 Feb 2015 → 16 Apr 2015 26 Feb 2015 → 16 Apr 2015 Symposium Not recorded Tribute to Pierre Gentelle (1933-2010) : new research on the history of irrigation in Central Asia Frantz Grenet 04 Jun 2015 → 05 Jun 2015 04 Jun 2015 → 05 Jun 2015 2013 - 2014 Opening lecture 18:00 - 19:00 Refocusing Central Asia Frantz Grenet 07 Nov 2013 Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot 07 Nov 2013 18:00 - 19:00 Lecture The urban fact in pre-Islamic Central Asia : diachronic and synchronic approaches Frantz Grenet 14 Nov 2013 → 27 Feb 2014 14 Nov 2013 → 27 Feb 2014 Seminar The urban fact in pre-Islamic Central Asia : diachronic and synchronic approaches Frantz Grenet 14 Nov 2013 → 15 May 2014 14 Nov 2013 → 15 May 2014
Lecture 6 Mar 2025 15:30 - 16:30 Frantz Grenet Paintings with epic subjects: proto-Shâhnâme and others…
Lecture 13 Mar 2025 15:30 - 16:30 Frantz Grenet Identifying the subjects of painted folktales (Aesopian repertory, Pancatantr…
Lecture 20 Mar 2025 15:30 - 16:30 Frantz Grenet Identifying the subjects of painted folktales (Aesopian repertory, Pancatantra, other Indian r…
Symposium 02 Jul 2025 → 03 Jul 2025 Frantz Grenet Sogdiane: state of the art and research in progress
Lecture Central Asia's lost literatures saved by the figurative arts Frantz Grenet 09 Jan 2025 → 27 Mar 2025 09 Jan 2025 → 27 Mar 2025
Symposium Sogdiane: state of the art and research in progress Frantz Grenet 02 Jul 2025 → 03 Jul 2025 02 Jul 2025 → 03 Jul 2025
Lecture Non-Buddhist temples in Bactria and Sogdiana (continued). 2) New archaeological data on Sogdian oases Frantz Grenet 11 Jan 2024 → 28 Mar 2024 11 Jan 2024 → 28 Mar 2024
Seminar A New Reading of Chinese Accounts on the Yuezhi and Early Kushans, in Relation with the Recently Discovered Inscriptions at Almosi (Tajikistan) Frantz Grenet 03 May 2024 → 14 Jun 2024 03 May 2024 → 14 Jun 2024
Symposium Around the exhibition " Splendors of Uzbekistan's oases : new terrains, new issues " Frantz Grenet 16 Jan 2023 → 17 Jan 2023 16 Jan 2023 → 17 Jan 2023
Lecture Prestige silver in Central Asia (continued) : Homer, Alexander. Non-Buddhist temples in Bactria and Sogdiana Frantz Grenet 19 Jan 2023 → 25 May 2023 19 Jan 2023 → 25 May 2023
Lecture Prestigious silverware in Central Asia : a mode of political and ideological expression Frantz Grenet 06 Jan 2022 → 31 Mar 2022 06 Jan 2022 → 31 Mar 2022
Seminar New approaches to Central Asia from Chinese sources (mainly Tongdian) (2) : Sogdiana (continued), Tarim kingdoms Frantz Grenet 12 May 2022 → 23 Jun 2022 12 May 2022 → 23 Jun 2022
Lecture Prestigious silver in Sassanid Iran and Central Asia : a mode of political and ideological expression Frantz Grenet 14 Jan 2021 → 20 May 2021 14 Jan 2021 → 20 May 2021
Seminar New approach to Chinese sources (mainly Tongdian) in Central Asia west of the Pamirs Frantz Grenet 22 Jan 2021 → 28 May 2021 22 Jan 2021 → 28 May 2021
Lecture Bactria and Sogdiana on both sides of the Arab conquest (7th-9th century) : a shift in civilization ? Frantz Grenet 10 Jan 2019 → 28 Mar 2019 10 Jan 2019 → 28 Mar 2019
Symposium India and Central Asia in the 1st millennium Frantz Grenet 05 Jun 2019 → 06 Jun 2019 05 Jun 2019 → 06 Jun 2019
Lecture Central Asian communities in China, 3rd-8th century : social role, religions, art Frantz Grenet 11 Jan 2018 → 05 Apr 2018 11 Jan 2018 → 05 Apr 2018
Symposium Ustrushana in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages : from the margins of Oekumene to the heart of Abbasid power Frantz Grenet 18 May 2018 18 May 2018
Symposium Hieroglossia III : Persian and Syro-Aramaic and their relationship with Arabic Jean-Noël Robert, Frantz Grenet 25 Jun 2018 25 Jun 2018
Lecture The urban fact in pre-Islamic Central Asia : diachronic approach, synchronic approach, III : the urban crisis and reurbanization (IIIe-VIe s.), a general process ? (continued) Frantz Grenet 12 Jan 2017 → 30 Mar 2017 12 Jan 2017 → 30 Mar 2017
Seminar Ferdowsi's Book of Kings and the Sistani epics : textual strata, iconographic strata Frantz Grenet 24 Feb 2017 → 02 Jun 2017 24 Feb 2017 → 02 Jun 2017
Seminar Marriage and households from Bactrian, Sogdian and Chorasmian documents, 3rd-8th c. Frantz Grenet 12 Feb 2016 → 08 Apr 2016 12 Feb 2016 → 08 Apr 2016
Lecture 10:00 - 11:00 Introduction to Yutaka Yoshida's lecture : the rediscovery of Manichaean dialectic art Frantz Grenet 03 May 2016 Amphithéâtre Maurice Halbwachs, Site Marcelin Berthelot 03 May 2016 10:00 - 11:00
Lecture The urban phenomenon in pre-Islamic Central Asia : diachronic and synchronic approaches (continued) Frantz Grenet 26 Feb 2015 → 16 Apr 2015 26 Feb 2015 → 16 Apr 2015
Symposium Not recorded Tribute to Pierre Gentelle (1933-2010) : new research on the history of irrigation in Central Asia Frantz Grenet 04 Jun 2015 → 05 Jun 2015 04 Jun 2015 → 05 Jun 2015
Opening lecture 18:00 - 19:00 Refocusing Central Asia Frantz Grenet 07 Nov 2013 Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot 07 Nov 2013 18:00 - 19:00
Lecture The urban fact in pre-Islamic Central Asia : diachronic and synchronic approaches Frantz Grenet 14 Nov 2013 → 27 Feb 2014 14 Nov 2013 → 27 Feb 2014
Seminar The urban fact in pre-Islamic Central Asia : diachronic and synchronic approaches Frantz Grenet 14 Nov 2013 → 15 May 2014 14 Nov 2013 → 15 May 2014