PROGRAM
Day one | Monday, 24th October 2016
| 09.00-9.30 | Registration Coffee |
| 9.30 | Welcome |
| Prof. Jerzy Malinowski, President of the Polish Institute World Art Studies Bogna Dziechciaruk, Director of the “Manggha” Museum of Japanese Art and Technology | |
| Session I – ART AND ICONOGRAPHY | |
| 10.00-10.30 | Robert Arlt, Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, Germany Dr. Satomi Hiyama, Ryukoku University, Japan Wandering of Indian Jester in Central Asia: The Iconography of Vidūsaka Reconsidered. |
| 10.30-11.00 | Natchapol Sirisawad, Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, Germany The Offering of the Begging Bowls by the Four Great Kings Depicted in the Art of India and Kizil Caves. |
| 11.00-11.30 | Dr. Laura Giuliano, Museum of Civilization/ Museum of Oriental Art ‘Giuseppe Tucci’, Rome, Italy Oēšo/ Śiva and the Kingship in the Kusāna World. |
| 11.30-12.00 | Dr. Natalia Soloveva, Institute of History of Material Culture, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia |
| 12.00-12.30 | Prof. Monika Zin, Saxon Academy of Sciences, Leipzig, Germany Buddha’s Last Journey – Paintings in the “Parinirvana Space” in the Caves of Kucha. |
| 12.30-13.00 | Dr. Ines Konczak-Nagel, Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, Germany Depictions of Demons in the Kizil Wall Paintings: Preliminary Research on the Localisation, Classifi-cation and Visual Models of Demons as Represented in the Buddhist Caves of Kizil. |
| 13.00-14.00 | Lunch |
| Session II – ART AND ICONOGRAPHY | |
| 14.00-14.30 | Ruixuan Chen, Leiden University, Holland Fang Wang, Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, German A Discussion on the Ātavika Yaksa Figure in the Ghost Festival Woodcut Print in Medieval Dunhuang. |
| 14.30-15.00 | Yu Meng, Saxon Academy of Sciences, Leipzig, Germany Tao Pan, Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, Germany The Tigress Story in Central Asia — A New Textual Version Rediscovered in Tocharian. |
| 15.00-15.30 | Prof. Alexey Tishkin, Altai State University, Barnaul, Russia «Deer» Stones of Xinjiang: Problems of Research. |
| 15.30-16.00 | Coffee break |
| 16.00-16.30 | Dr. Mikhail Treister, German Archaeological Institute, Berlin, Germany Hellenistic Bactrian and (or) Parthian Phalerae from the Burials of the Nomads of Asian Sarmatia. |
| 16.30-17.00 | Robert Schulz, Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany Dionysius between Sasanian Iran and a Roman villa – a Comparison of Two Modes of Perception. |
| 17.00-17.30 | Dr. Elmira Gyul, Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Uzbekistan Soghdian carpets. |
| 17.30-18.00 | Dominika Kossowska-Janik, University of Warsaw, Poland Resist Dyeing – Textile Art in Central Asia. |
| 18.00-18.30 | Adam Lech Kubik, Siedlce University, Poland Central Asian Textile Decoration Motifs in Comparison to the Mosaics from the Basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna |
| 18.30 | Discussion |
| Day two | Tuesday, 25th October 2016 | |
| Session III – ROCK ART | |
| 9.00-9.30 | Prof. Andrzej Rozwadowski, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland “Solar” Petroglyphs in Saimaly-Tash, Kyrgyzstan: are They Really Images of the Sun? |
| 9.30-10.00 | Dr. Victor Novozhenov, Dr. Marina Bedelbayeva, Karaganda State University, Karaganda, Kazakhstan Steppe Pictorial Monuments and Rock Art’s Traditions of Saryarka (Kazakhstan). |
| 10.00-10.30 | Coffee break |
| 10.30-11.00 | Dr. Marina Kilunovskaya, Institute of History of Material Culture, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia Subject Compositions in Tuvan Rock Art. |
| 11.00-11.30 | Kasper Hanus, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland Stamping the Land. The Visibility Analysis of Geoglyphs in Past Landscapes of Kostanay Region, Kazakhstan. |
| 11.30-12.00 | Anna Augustinová, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic Ibexes on the Black Stones: New Petroglyphs in Surkhandarya (South Uzbekistan). |
| 12.00-12.30 | Dr. Anna Mukhareva, Kemerovo State University, Russia Rock art of the Western Spurs of the Mongolian Altai in Expositions of the Museums of Xinjiang Uyghur Autono- mous Region of China. |
| 12.30-13.00 | Dr. Irina Shvets, Heidelberg, Germany About the Interpretation of “Sun-Ray Head” Figures as Shamanic in the Rock Art of Central Asia. |
| 13.00-14.00 | Lunch |
| Session IV – ROCK ART | |
| 14.30-15.00 | Dr. Nikolay Bokovenko, Academy of Sciences, St.-Petersburg, Russia Shamanism in the Rock Art of the Central Asia. |
| 15.00-15.30 | Anne Christine Walkling, Ughtasar Rock Art Project, Armenia Exploring the ‘Sacred’ at the Site of Ughtasar in the Mountains of Southern Armenia. |
| 15.30-16.00 | Dr. Malahat Farajova, State Historical-Architectural Reserve “Icherisheher”, Azerbaijan Archaeological Landscape of the Western Shore of the Caspian Sea at the End of Upper Pleistocene and Holocene. |
| 16.00-16.30 | Coffee break |
| 16.30-17.00 | Sevinc Shirinli, Rahman Abdullayev, National Academy of Science of Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan Dario Sigari, Università degli Studi di Ferrara, Italy Symbols through Time. Upper Palaeolithic, Bronze Age and Middle Age Zoomorphic Figures of Gobustan Rock Art. |
| 17.00 | Discussion |
| Day three | Wednesday, 26th October 2016 | |
| Session V – ARCHAEOLOGY AND RELIGION | |
| 9.00-9.30 | Dr. Sergey Lapteff, Miho Museum, Japan The Nature of the Contacts between Margiana and Mesopotamia in 3rd-2nd Millennium B.C. |
| 9.30-10.00 | Dr. Barbara Cerasetti, University of Bologna, Italy The Importance of the Interaction between Farmers and Herders in the Bronze Age Alluvial Fan of the Murghab River (Southern Turkmenistan): an Answer from the Excavation of Togolok 1. |
| 10.00-10.30 | Coffee break |
| 10.30-11.00 | Dr. Luca Forni, University of Bologna, Italy Religion and Spiritual Life in the Bronze Age: New Evidence of Anthropomorphic Figurines from the Murghab Region (Southern Turkmenistan). |
| 11.00-11.30 | Dr. Kenneth Lymer, Wessex Archaeology, Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom Griffin Mythology and the Archaeology of the Early Nomads in Central Asia. |
| 11.30-12.00 | Dr. Rukhsana Iftikhar, Lahore University, Pakistan Cultural Landscape of Gandhara. |
| 12.00-12.30 | Dr. Ladislav Stančo, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic Prof. Shapulat Shaydullaev, Termez State University, Uzbekistan The First of the Good Lands: New Archaeological Data on Early Zoroastrianism? |
| 12.30-14.30 | Lunch |
| Session VI – RELIGION | |
| 14.30-15.00 | Prof. Danuta Penkala-Gawęcka, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland Pilgrimages to Sacred sites in Kyrgyzstan: Nature, Healing and the Local Forms of Religiosity. |
| 15.00-15.30 | Dr. Nikolai Seregin, Altai State University, Barnaul, Russia Cult Products from Burials of Early Medieval Turks in Central Asia: Problems of Interpretation. |
| 15.30-16.00 | Dr. Sara Kuehn, University of Vienna, Austria Ophidian Traces in the Pre-Islamic Iranian Pantheon. |
| 16.00-16.30 | Anatoliy Semenov, Institute of History of Material Culture, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia Mountain sanctuaries of Tuva. |
| 16.30 | CLOSING SESSION |