Arpenter un paysage incrit

Les inscriptions épigraphiques ouvrent un monde au-delà de la marque du burin sur la surface de la pierre. En huit tables rondes, nous proposons d'explorer la riche histoire culturelle de l'épigraphie en Asie de l'Est. En parcourant le temps et de l'espace dans leurs dimensions physiques et imaginaires, des chercheurs de la sinosphère, issus de diverses disciplines, se réuniront pour partager leurs itinéraires dans l'univers épigraphique. Le format expérimental de cet atelier vise à faciliter les collaborations présentes et futures dans le domaine et à définir des pistes communes pour la recherche sur les inscriptions gravées sur pierre et les paysages inscrits. Programme en français disponible ici

Un rapport complet de la conférence est disponible ici

A full report of the conference is accessible here.

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Funded by the ANR project Altergraphy https://anr.fr/Projet-ANR-23-CE54-0001

Organized by Lia Wei (Inalco/IFRAE) and Manuel Sassmann (Heidelberg Academy of Sciences)

Location: Auditorium du Pôle des langues et civilisations, 65 Rue des Grands Moulins 75013

Theme: Inscriptions can open up a world extending far beyond chisel marks on the stone surface. In eight roundtables, we propose to explore the rich cultural history of epigraphy in East Asia. By striding out its multiple dimensions of time and space, both physical and imaginary, scholars from the sinographic sphere with diverse disciplinary backgrounds will attempt to chart together the Epiverse. The experimental format of this conference aims at facilitating present and future collaborations in the field, and defining common research paths on stone inscriptions and inscribed landscapes.

Format: Attendees prepared their answers to the 8 themes and questions, so that each session functions like a roundtable, rather than a series of conventional speeches. Coffee is provided in 30 min breaks in-between sessions in the Foyer adjacent to our Auditorium. During lunchtime, guided tours of the exhibition Sculpter les nuages, la montagne enlacée about the four mountains inscribed by Zheng Daozhao between 511 and 516 CE are proposed in the Galerie adjacent to the Foyer. In each session, two scholars among our guests will show a few slides of their material (about 10 min) and one or two discussants will be commenting on all of the submitted answers to the session questions (about 15 min), followed by an open roundtable where all participants can join the conversation (the remaining 30 min).

Participants

Ashikari Kento 芦刈健⼈ (Kyoto University)
Estelle Bauer (Inalco/IFRAE and Musée Guimet)
Francesca Berdin 白鳳滎 (Inalco)
Michela Bussotti (EFEO/CCJ)
Killian Cahier 耿良 (Inalco)
Hilde De Weerdt 魏希德 (KU Leuven)
Yolaine Escande 幽蘭 (CNRS/CRAL/EHESS)
Thomas Hahn (UC Berkeley)
Michael Hatch (Trinity College)
Shao-Lan Hertel 何小蘭 (Cologne East Asian Art Museum)
Anna Le Menach 林紫溪 (Inalco)
Lee Sunkyu 李善圭 (KU Leuven)
Lei Yang 雷楊 (Inalco/IFRAE/CRCAO)
Li Ziyi 李子怡 (China Academy of Art)
Jonathan Pettit 裴玄錚 (University of Hawaii)
Marie-Françoise Plissart
Sakata Gensho 坂⽥⽞翔
Shi Tianyu 施天宇 (Hamburg University)
Shin Jeongsoo 신정수 (Academy of Korean Studies)
Paula Suméra 蘇美若 (Inalco/IFRAE)
Tchou-Tchou Tophoven 饒楚楚 (Inalco)
Yan Weitian 閻緯天 (Indiana University)
Aida Yuen Wong 阮圓 (Brandeis University)
Xue Lei 薛磊 (Oregon State University)
Zhang Qiang 張強 (Sichuan Fine Arts Institute)
Zhang Rui 張蕊 (Inalco/IFRAE)

DAY 1 – OCTOBER 15

9:00 – 9:30     Welcome address

9:30 – 10:45   1. Digital Synergies 數字文人 (Hilde De Weerdt & Manuel Sassmann)

Which digital tools do you use and how do they impact the perception of your material and the structure of your analysis if so? How can we create synergies across projects beyond technical advice? What are the challenges in building shared ontologies for inscribed landscapes/epigraphy/rubbings?

*coffee break and chat (30 min) *

11:15 – 12:30 2. Calligraphic Variation 書刊風格 (Shao-Lan Hertel & Yolaine Escande)

How do we define and describe (calli)graphic variation and style? How does the visual analysis of calligraphy today rely on descriptive vocabularies developed since the medieval period? What can we still learn from calligraphic practice, and what would a practice-derived descriptive vocabulary look like? How could such a vocabulary apply to epigraphy?

*Lunchtime (1 hour 30 min)*

13:30   Exhibition “Sculpter les nuages, la montagne enlacée” 觸石吐雲

14:00 – 15:15 3. Traveling Legacy 傳統轉換 (Shin Jeongsoo & Aida Wong)

How did visual and textual epigraphic knowledge circulate and impact artistic practices – including avant-garde and modern experiments – accross time and space? What similarities/differences in the handling of this legacy can we identify between late imperial and early modern East Asian elites?

*coffee break and chat (30 min)*

15:45 – 17:00 4. Transforming Spaces 空間變異 (Lee Sunkyu & Shi Tianyu)

In what different kinds of spaces (religious, political, social,…) are inscriptions embedded and what places do they create? How do spaces/places coexist and interact? How are they navigated, imagined, visualized, and represented? In what ways are they transformed and or transformative ?

17:30 – 18:30 Zheng Daozhao and the Four Mountains 

Keynote lecture by Sakata Genshō, with Estelle Bauer

DAY 2 – OCTOBER 16

9:00 – 10:15   5. Thinking Matters 開山策略 (Jonathan Pettit & Thomas Hahn)

What are the motivations and modes of appropriation of mountains, stones, and other matters? By which strategies do states, communities, individuals – as well as divine or non-human agents – “develop” mountains? How do these strategies translate into physical markers and textual/verbal discourse?

*coffee break and chat (30 min)*

10:45 – 12:00 6. Conceiving Identity 身份確證 (Xue Lei & Zhang Qiang)

How do poetry, religion, and calligraphy shape identity? How do epitaphs and steles, with their specific literary genres and calligraphic styles, allow us to reconstruct networks of historical figures? Beyond the monolithic notion of a person as “author”, how can we deconstruct identity into its interrelated facets?

*Lunchtime (2h)*

13:30 Screening “Arpenter un paysage inscrit” (Marie-Françoise Plissart)

14:00 – 15:15  7. Managing Monuments 遺產悖論 (Li Ziyi & Lia Wei)

How have inscribed landscapes been managed between antiquarianism and heritagization? How has the challenge of preserving the environment and rock surface been met when inscriptions are traditionally valued in the shape of rubbings? Who is the audience for the heritagized inscriptions?

*coffee break and chat (30 min)*

15:45 – 17:00 8. Antiquarian Practices 試驗金石 (Michael Hatch & Yan Weitian)

What are the specific antiquarian modes of handling monuments and surrogates? What dimensions of objects do sensorial interactions reveal that are lost in both modern armchair scholarship and archaeology?

17:30 – 18:00 Closing remarks

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