Readers in London may be interested in this seminar held in SOAS on 20 May 2020. Online registration through the link below.
10.15-11.00 Keynote Address
Pieter ter Keurs, Professor for Museums, Collections and Society, LUCAS, University of Leiden
Collecting Hindu-Buddhist Antiquities in the Netherlands East-Indies: On colonial practices and postcolonial tensions11.20-12.50 Panel 1 – Chair: Christian Luczanits, David L. Snellgrove Senior Lecturer in Tibetan and Buddhist Art, SOAS University of London
Panggah Ardiyansyah, The Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia
(Re)Constructing Borobudur: Biographies, Representations, and Monument-Making of Java’s Ancient Hindu-Buddhist SiteLesley Pullen, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, SOAS University of London
Object Biography- Mañjuśrī Arapacana- From Java to RussiaWieske Sapardan, Independent Scholar
Object Biography and restitution of the Prajñāpāramitā statue14.00-15.30 Panel 2 – Chair: Lesley Pullen, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, SOAS University of London
Mai Lin Tjoa-Bonatz, Southeast Asian Studies, Goethe University, Frankfurt
The Afterlives of Gold Antiquities from Sumatra and JavaBrigitta Hauser-Schäaublin, Georg-August University, Gottingen
Transformations and relocations: from edicts to gods, to antiquities. Glimpses into the biography of Balinese copperplate inscriptionsEd McKinnon, Archaeologist (retired), Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre, Singapore
A Hoard of Buddhist Bronzes from Buluh Cina, North Sumatra15.50-16.50 Panel 3 – Chair: Duyen Nguyen, Doctoral Researcher, SOAS, Danang Museum of Cham Sculpture
William Southworth, Curator of Southeast Asian Art, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
The provenance history of the stone sculptures from Central Java in the Rijksmuseum, AmsterdamMarieke Bloembergen, KITLV- Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies, Leiden, Professor in Archival and Postcolonial Studies, Institute of History, Leiden University
Moving Indonesian antiquities, global collecting networks, and the moral geographies of Greater India, 1920s-1960s
Source: Biographies and Restitution of Hindu and Buddhist Objects from Java, Sumatra and Bali
I can’t find the link to register online
Hi Helen the link can be found here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf7WXyc6XMpKjboSqz3zU5lNkvaSHDE_XpOWFrF1xBz2Bea4w/viewform?usp=sf_link