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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 9 Jan 2025 15:30 - 16:30 Frantz Grenet Introduction Lecture 16 Jan 2025 15:30 - 16:30 Frantz Grenet Introduction (continued). The recent rediscovery of Parthian and Sogdian versification Lecture 23 Jan 2025 15:30 - 16:30 Frantz Grenet The literary status of Sogdian religious writings (Buddhist, Christian, Zoroastrian): translat… Lecture 30 Jan 2025 15:30 - 16:30 Frantz Grenet The Sogdian epic fragment with an episode from the gesture of Rostam.… Lecture 6 Feb 2025 15:30 - 16:30 Frantz Grenet Introduction to the iconographic dossier (mainly murals from aristocratic dwellings in Punjike… 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 Close Event type Event type Lecture (12) Seminar (6) Symposium (6) Opening lecture (1) Academic year Close 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 16 Jan 2025 15:30 - 16:30 Frantz Grenet Introduction (continued). The recent rediscovery of Parthian and Sogdian versification
Lecture 23 Jan 2025 15:30 - 16:30 Frantz Grenet The literary status of Sogdian religious writings (Buddhist, Christian, Zoroastrian): translat…
Lecture 30 Jan 2025 15:30 - 16:30 Frantz Grenet The Sogdian epic fragment with an episode from the gesture of Rostam.…
Lecture 6 Feb 2025 15:30 - 16:30 Frantz Grenet Introduction to the iconographic dossier (mainly murals from aristocratic dwellings in Punjike…
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
