program, schema, Wednesday

Session 1
Session 2
"Biografen" Museum of Modern Art
"Auditorium" Museum of Far Eastern
Antiquities
GREATER INDUS Comparative studies of
material culture
TEMPLE Architecture and Iconography
Chair: C. A. Petrie
Chair: Julia A. B. Hegewald
09.00-09.20
Lorenz Rahmstorf, Weight metrology in the
Harappan civilization: results of a recent
comprehensive study.
Caroline Riberaigua, A new glimpse on
hypaethral yoginī temples of India.
09.20-09.40
Danika Parikh, Ceramics, Hybridity and the
Negotiation of Identity in the Indus
Civilisation
Gudrun Bühnemann, Tantric Iconography
in the Mohan Courtyard in Kathmandu's
Old Royal Palace.
09.40-10.00
Marta Ameri, Replicating Monsters:
Analyzing the Mythological Imagery of the
Harappan World in Light of Recent
Scholarship on the Monstrous
Discussion
10.00-10.20
Heidi J. Miller, Incised Ivory Rods from
Dales’ 1964-65 Excavation at Mohenjo-
Daro
10.20-10.30
Discussion
10.30-11.00
INDIA: The Pre- and protohistoric
production landscape
SOUTH ASIAN Medieval Architecture:
Comparative studies
Chair: Marco Madella
Chair: Adam Hardy
11.00-11.20
Bishnupriya Basak, Late Pleistocene
microlithic industries in the Ayodhya hills,
West Bengal, Eastern India: reconstructing
a past use of landscape.
Michael W. Meister, New Architecture in
Old Pakistan: Mari-Indus, Zalamkot, and
Katas.
11.20-11.40
Praveena Gullapalli & Shinu Anna
Abraham, Investigating the Production
Landscapes of Southern Andhra Pradesh.
Sutapa Sinha, Art and Architecture of the
Faruqis of Burhanpur: a preliminary study
11.40-12.00
Discussion
Sara Mondini , A widespread taste for the
macabre or apotropaic marks? Urbanism,
landscapes and funerary architecture in the
Indian Sultanate
12.00-12.20
Discussion
INDIAN OCEAN: Evidence for historic
period trading networks
INDO-GREEK/INDO-IRANIAN Early
Historical studies
Chair: Pierfrancesco Callieri
Chair: Osmund Bopearachchi
13.20-13.40
Jo Shoebridge, Far and wide across the
Indian Ocean: An analytical investigation
into distribution networks across the
Indian Ocean and beyond.
Olivier Bordeaux, Coinage, monograms and
chronology of Menander I in the light of a
die-study.
13.40-14.00
Heidrun Schenk, Reflections on early Indian
Ocean exchange in the light of the pottery
sequence from Tissamaharama Citadel.
Manuel Albaladejo Vivero, Aristobulus of
Cassandreia: An Engineer at the Court of
Alexander the Great.
14.00-14.20
Klaus Karttunen, A FORGOTTEN SOURCE
ABOUT THE ANCIENT INDIAN OCEAN
TRADE.
Bruno Genito, Building no 3 of Dāhān-i
Ghūlāmān, Eastern Iran (Sistan): an
Achaemenid religious puzzle?
14.20-14.40
Discussion
Discussion
Poster presentation
Excursion
15.40-ca 18.00
Wednesday
12.20-13.20
Coffee break
Lunch
14.40-15.40