British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences
A Hundred Years of Dunhuang, 1907-2007
Organised jointly with the British Museum and British Library
Thursday 17 to Saturday 19 May 2007
17 May - British Library, Euston Road, London NW1
18 May - British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1
19 May - British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1
Final Programme
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Thursday 17 May 2007
Venue: The British Library
| 9.00 | Registration |
| The discovery of Cave 17 Chair: Helen Wang (British Museum) and Frances Wood (British Library) |
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| 10.00 | Sir Aurel Stein, archaeological-explorer Susan Whitfield (International Dunhuang Project, British Library) |
| 10.15 | Rudolf Hoernle and Aurel Stein Ursula Sims-Williams (British Library) |
| 10.30 | Lajos Loczy, who encouraged Stein to go to Dunhuang Lilla Russell-Smith (Circle for Inner Asian Art) |
| 10.45 | Discussion/questions |
| 11.00 | Coffee/tea |
| 11.30 | Aurel Stein's dealings with Wang Yuanlu and Chinese Officials of Dunhuang in 1907 Wang Jiqing (Lanzhou University) |
| 11.45 | Spreading the word: Aurel Stein and Count Otani Imre Galambos (International Dunhuang Project, British Library) |
| 12.00 | Pictures of Dunhuang - a photographic record in London and Hungary John Falconer (British Library) |
| 12.15 | The Dunhuang Collections in London, 1907 - 2007 Helen Wang, The British Museum |
| 12.30 | Discussion/questions |
| 12.45 | Close |
| Lunch | |
| Exploring Dunhuang: the Contents of Cave 17 Chair: Valerie Hansen (Yale University) |
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| 14.00 | On some silk painting fragments in the British Museum Roderick Whitfield (Emeritus Professor, SOAS) |
| 14.15 | Dunhuang and the history of the Chinese book Jean-Pierre Drège (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris) |
| 14.30 | Textiles from Dunhuang in the V&A Helen Persson (V&A) |
| 14.45 | New studies on the textiles from Dunhuang Zhao Feng (China National Silk Museum, Hangzhou) |
| 15.00 | Discussion/questions |
| 15.30 | Tea/coffee |
| 16.00 | The Dunhuang collections in Paris Nathalie Monnet (Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris) |
| 16.15 | The Dunhuang collections in St Petersburg Irina Popova (Institute of Oriental Studies, St. Petersburg) |
| 16.30 | Private Dunhuang-related collections in Japan Akao Eikei (Kyoto National Museum) |
| 16.45 | The banners from Dunhuang, in the Stein Collection of the National Museum, New Delhi Chhaya Bhattacharya-Haesner |
| 17.00 | The Dunhuang Collections in China Speaker tbc |
| 17.15 | Discussion/questions |
| 17.30 | Close |
Friday 18 May 2007
Venue: The British Museum
| New Research on Chinese and Khotanese Texts Chair: Wang Tao (SOAS/University College London) |
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| 10.15 | New research on the Chinese texts Rong Xinjiang (Peking University) |
| 10.30 | New research on the Chinese texts Fang Guangchang (Shanghai Normal University) |
| 10.45 | New research on the Chinese Texts Hao Chunwen (Shanghai Normal University) |
| 11.00 | Discussion/questions |
| 11.15 | Coffee/tea |
| 11.45 | Harumichi Ishizuka The Kozanji Temple Buddhist Scripture Project |
| 12.00 | New research on the Khotanese texts Oktor Skjaervo (Harvard University) |
| 12.15 | New research on the Khotanese texts Hiroshi Kumamoto (University of Tokyo) |
| 12.30 | Discussion |
| 12.45 | Close |
| Lunch | |
| New Research on Texts Chair: Graham Shaw (British Library) |
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| 14.00 | Buddhist Sogdian texts and their Chinese originals Barbara Meisterernst (Turfanforschung, Berlin), Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst (Turfanforschung, Berlin) |
| 14.15 | The earliest Sogdian texts: Stein's ‘Ancient Letters’ and the newly discovered inscriptions from Southern Kazakhstan Nicholas Sims-Williams (SOAS) |
| 14.30 | New research on the Sogdian texts Yutaka Yoshida (Kyoto University) |
| 14.45 | Recent research on Tocharian texts Georges-Jean Pinault (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris) |
| 15.00 | New research on texts Peter Zieme (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften) |
| 15.15 | Discussion/questions |
| 15.30 | Tea/coffee |
| 16.00 | A magic text from Dunhuang and recent studies in Kharosthi manuscripts Ingo Strauch (Freie Universitat Berlin) |
| 16.15 | New research on the Tangut texts Speaker TBC |
| 16.30 | The Impact of the finds at Dunhuang on Tibetan Studies Tsuguhito Takeuchi (Kobe City University of Foreign Studies) |
| 16.45 | Title: TBC Enami Kazuyuki (Ryukoku University) |
| 17.00 | The Altun Yaruk Sudur - reconstructed Simone-Christiane Raschmann (Turfanforschung, Berlin) |
| 17.15 | Discussion/questions |
| 17.30 | Close |
Saturday 19 May 2007
Venue: The British Academy
| Dunhuang in the Future Chair: Oktor Skjaervo (Harvard University) |
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| 10.00 | Updates on Dunhuang projects International Dunhuang Project – Susan Whitfield (IDP, BL) Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences – Eva Apor (LHAS) Mellon Projects Other Projects – Hao Chunwen (Shanghai Normal University) |
| 10.30 | Recent and future activities of the International Liaison Committee for Dunhuang Studies Tokio Takata - Kyoto University |
| 10.45 | The politics of preservation and museum building in Western China in the early twentieth century Sanchita Balachandran |
| 11.00 | Discussion/questions |
| 11.15 | Coffee/tea |
| 11.45 | Locating Dunhuang in the broader history of the Silk Road
Valerie Hansen (Yale University) |
| 12.00 | Discussion: Dunhuang and its place in world history and culture Chairs: Roderick Whitfield (SOAS) and Victor Mair (University of Pennsylvania) |
| 12.55 | Closing remarks Frances Wood (British Library) |
| 13.00 | Lunch |
| Conference ends | |