Société Asiatique - Collège de France Centre de recherche sur les civilisations de l'Asie orientale (CNRS-UMR8155) and Unité Proche-Orient - Caucase (CNRS-UMR7192)
june 10 and 11, 2013
Collège de France - Room 2
11 place Marcelin Berthelot, 75005 Paris
Free admission, subject to availability
Monday June 10th, 2013
9:30 am: Welcome by Jean-Pierre Mahé, President of the Société asiatique
Words and ideas
(Session chaired by Jean-Pierre Mahé)
9:45 am: Jean Haudry: "Truth and lies in the Indo-Iranian world"
10:15am: Nicolas Gillmann: "Some thoughts on the ontological status of images in the light of the Assyrian case"
10h45: Isabelle Klock-Fontanille: "The staging of power in Hittite historical texts"
11h15-11h30: Break
History
(Session chaired by Thomas Römer)
11:30 am: Alexis Lycas: "Historiographical construction and integration into the empire of the indigenous populations of the middle reaches of the Blue River in classical China"
12:00 pm: Valérie Matoïan and Juan-Pablo Vita: "Faire du faux, dire vrai, et son contraire à Ugarit" (Doing false things, telling the truth and its opposite at Ugarit)
12:30-14:00: Lunch break
Literature
(Session chaired by Jean-Noël Robert)
2:00 pm: Daniel Struve: "Lies and fiction in Japanese Heian novels"
2:30 pm: Laurent Legrain: "Les soixante-dix mensonges de Dalan Hudalch. Lies and fascination in contemporary Mongolia"
3:00 pm Shao Baoqing: "Truth and lies in Chinese lyric poetry: when the poet expresses himself through a woman's voice"
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm: Break
Royal words
(Session chaired by Pierre-Sylvain Filliozat)
3:45pm: Josette Elayi: "Rib-Hadda, le roi de Byblos qui ne ment pas" (Rib-Hadda, the king of Byblos who doesn't lie)
4:15pm: Perrine Estienne: "La politique royale du serment en Inde ancienne, us et abus de la parole donnée" (The royal politics of oaths in ancient India: the uses and abuses of given word)
Tuesday June 11, 2013
East and West
(Session chaired by Madeleine Scopello)
9:30 am: Bernadette Martel-Thoumian: "Dans le regard de l'autre: pèlerins occidentaux et mamlouks à travers l'étude de quelques récits de voyage (fin XIVe-début XVIe siècle)" (In the eyes of the other: Western pilgrims and Mamlouks through the study of a few travel accounts (late 14th-early 16th century))
10:00 am: John Finlay: "Henri-Léonard Bertin (1720-1792) and authentic knowledge of China"
10:30 am: Régine Thiriez: "How reliable are scenes of exotic life in early photography? The case of China"
11h00-11h15: Break
Historiographical distortions
(Session chaired by Bernadette Martel-Thoumian)
11:15: Françoise Wang-Toutain: "La diffusion du bouddhisme selon l'empereur mandchou Qianlong (XVIIIe siècle) : entre oubli et reconstruction" (The spread of Buddhism according to the Manchu emperor Qianlong (18th century): between oblivion and reconstruction)
11h45: Jean-Louis Bacqué-Grammont: "Two cases of memory distortion in Ottoman historiography: the siege of Malta and the battle of Lepanto"
12:15-14:00: Lunch break
Religion
(Session chaired by Jean-Marie Durand)
2:00 pm: Madeleine Scopello: "Truth and lies in the Gnostic texts of Nag Hammadi"
2:30 pm: Silvia D'Intino: "Sacrifice and truth in Vedic ritual"
3:00 pm - 3:15 pm: Break
(Session chaired by Nathalie Monnet)
3:15pm: Mohammad Ali Amir Moezzi: "Is Muhammad the last prophet? New remarks on tactical dissimulation (taqiyya) in Shi'ite Islam"
15h45: Didier Davin: "The blind love of the old monk: The question of the servant Shin in the Kyōun-shū"
