Biographies and Restitution of Hindu and Buddhist Objects from Java, Sumatra and Bali
Date: 19 May 2021Time: 10:00 AM
Finishes: 19 May 2021Time: 6:30 PM
Venue: Paul Webley Wing (Senate House) Room: Wolfson Lecture Theatre
Type of Event: Seminar

Programme
10.00-10.15 Opening Remarks
Head of the School of Arts, SOAS University of London
Convenor: Lesley Pullen, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, SOAS University of London
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 tensions
11.00-11.20 Coffee in the Atrium
11.20-12.50 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 Site
Lesley Pullen, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, SOAS University of London
Object Biography- Mañjuśrī Arapacana- From Java to Russia
Wieske Sapardan, Independent Scholar
Object Biography and restitution of the Prajñāpāramitā statue
12.50-14.00 Lunch in the Atrium
14.00-15.30 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 Java
Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin, Georg-August University, Gottingen
Transformations and relocations: from edicts to gods, to antiquities. Glimpses into the biography of Balinese copperplate inscriptions
Ed McKinnon, Archaeologist (retired), Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre, Singapore
A Hoard of Buddhist Bronzes from Buluh Cina, North Sumatra
15.30-15.50 Tea in the Atrium
15.50-16.50 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, Amsterdam
Marieke 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
16.50-17.10 Closing Remarks: Ashley Thompson, Hiram W. Woodward Chair in Southeast Asian Art, SOAS University of London
17.20-18.30 Reception in the Atrium
Registration
If you would like to attend the event please register. Online registration
Supported by the Southeast Asian Art Academic Programme and organised with the Centre of South East Asian Studies
Organiser: SOAS Southeast Asian Art Academic Programme and SOAS Centre of South East Asian Studies
Contact email: ag87@soas.ac.uk