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The chair Biography and publications Public lectures Guest lecturers Annual summaries Team and contact Audios and videos News Upcoming Previous Guest lecturer 20 May 2025 17:00 - 18:30 Kyle Harper The origins of the Justinian plague: From Central Asia to the Mediterranean Symposium 02 Jul 2025 → 03 Jul 2025 Frantz Grenet Sogdiane: state of the art and research in progress Next 12 series Filters Event type Event type (-) Lecture (12) Seminar (6) Symposium (6) Opening lecture (1) Academic year Academic year 2024 - 2025 (1) 2023 - 2024 (1) 2022 - 2023 (1) 2021 - 2022 (1) 2020 - 2021 (1) 2019 - 2020 (1) 2018 - 2019 (1) 2017 - 2018 (1) 2016 - 2017 (1) 2015 - 2016 (1) 2014 - 2015 (1) 2013 - 2014 (1) Active filters Lecture 2024 - 2025 Lecture Central Asia's lost literatures saved by the figurative arts Frantz Grenet 09 Jan 2025 → 27 Mar 2025 09 Jan 2025 → 27 Mar 2025 2023 - 2024 Lecture Non-Buddhist temples in Bactria and Sogdiana (continued). 2) New archaeological data on Sogdian oases Frantz Grenet 11 Jan 2024 → 28 Mar 2024 11 Jan 2024 → 28 Mar 2024 2022 - 2023 Lecture Prestige silver in Central Asia (continued) : Homer, Alexander. Non-Buddhist temples in Bactria and Sogdiana Frantz Grenet 19 Jan 2023 → 25 May 2023 19 Jan 2023 → 25 May 2023 2021 - 2022 Lecture Prestigious silverware in Central Asia : a mode of political and ideological expression Frantz Grenet 06 Jan 2022 → 31 Mar 2022 06 Jan 2022 → 31 Mar 2022 2020 - 2021 Lecture Prestigious silver in Sassanid Iran and Central Asia : a mode of political and ideological expression Frantz Grenet 14 Jan 2021 → 20 May 2021 14 Jan 2021 → 20 May 2021 2019 - 2020 Lecture No lectures this year Frantz Grenet 01 Sep 2019 01 Sep 2019 2018 - 2019 Lecture Bactria and Sogdiana on both sides of the Arab conquest (7th-9th century) : a shift in civilization ? Frantz Grenet 10 Jan 2019 → 28 Mar 2019 10 Jan 2019 → 28 Mar 2019 2017 - 2018 Lecture Central Asian communities in China, 3rd-8th century : social role, religions, art Frantz Grenet 11 Jan 2018 → 05 Apr 2018 11 Jan 2018 → 05 Apr 2018 2016 - 2017 Lecture The urban fact in pre-Islamic Central Asia : diachronic approach, synchronic approach, III : the urban crisis and reurbanization (IIIe-VIe s.), a general process ? (continued) Frantz Grenet 12 Jan 2017 → 30 Mar 2017 12 Jan 2017 → 30 Mar 2017 2015 - 2016 Lecture 10:00 - 11:00 Introduction to Yutaka Yoshida's lecture : the rediscovery of Manichaean dialectic art Frantz Grenet 03 May 2016 Amphithéâtre Maurice Halbwachs, Site Marcelin Berthelot 03 May 2016 10:00 - 11:00 2014 - 2015 Lecture The urban phenomenon in pre-Islamic Central Asia : diachronic and synchronic approaches (continued) Frantz Grenet 26 Feb 2015 → 16 Apr 2015 26 Feb 2015 → 16 Apr 2015 2013 - 2014 Lecture The urban fact in pre-Islamic Central Asia : diachronic and synchronic approaches Frantz Grenet 14 Nov 2013 → 27 Feb 2014 14 Nov 2013 → 27 Feb 2014
Guest lecturer 20 May 2025 17:00 - 18:30 Kyle Harper The origins of the Justinian plague: From Central Asia to the Mediterranean
Symposium 02 Jul 2025 → 03 Jul 2025 Frantz Grenet Sogdiane: state of the art and research in progress
Lecture Central Asia's lost literatures saved by the figurative arts Frantz Grenet 09 Jan 2025 → 27 Mar 2025 09 Jan 2025 → 27 Mar 2025
Lecture Non-Buddhist temples in Bactria and Sogdiana (continued). 2) New archaeological data on Sogdian oases Frantz Grenet 11 Jan 2024 → 28 Mar 2024 11 Jan 2024 → 28 Mar 2024
Lecture Prestige silver in Central Asia (continued) : Homer, Alexander. Non-Buddhist temples in Bactria and Sogdiana Frantz Grenet 19 Jan 2023 → 25 May 2023 19 Jan 2023 → 25 May 2023
Lecture Prestigious silverware in Central Asia : a mode of political and ideological expression Frantz Grenet 06 Jan 2022 → 31 Mar 2022 06 Jan 2022 → 31 Mar 2022
Lecture Prestigious silver in Sassanid Iran and Central Asia : a mode of political and ideological expression Frantz Grenet 14 Jan 2021 → 20 May 2021 14 Jan 2021 → 20 May 2021
Lecture Bactria and Sogdiana on both sides of the Arab conquest (7th-9th century) : a shift in civilization ? Frantz Grenet 10 Jan 2019 → 28 Mar 2019 10 Jan 2019 → 28 Mar 2019
Lecture Central Asian communities in China, 3rd-8th century : social role, religions, art Frantz Grenet 11 Jan 2018 → 05 Apr 2018 11 Jan 2018 → 05 Apr 2018
Lecture The urban fact in pre-Islamic Central Asia : diachronic approach, synchronic approach, III : the urban crisis and reurbanization (IIIe-VIe s.), a general process ? (continued) Frantz Grenet 12 Jan 2017 → 30 Mar 2017 12 Jan 2017 → 30 Mar 2017
Lecture 10:00 - 11:00 Introduction to Yutaka Yoshida's lecture : the rediscovery of Manichaean dialectic art Frantz Grenet 03 May 2016 Amphithéâtre Maurice Halbwachs, Site Marcelin Berthelot 03 May 2016 10:00 - 11:00
Lecture The urban phenomenon in pre-Islamic Central Asia : diachronic and synchronic approaches (continued) Frantz Grenet 26 Feb 2015 → 16 Apr 2015 26 Feb 2015 → 16 Apr 2015
Lecture The urban fact in pre-Islamic Central Asia : diachronic and synchronic approaches Frantz Grenet 14 Nov 2013 → 27 Feb 2014 14 Nov 2013 → 27 Feb 2014