Τhe
Jawaharlal Nehru University and the University of Sydney organized a
conference on the theme: “Memory as History: The legacy of Alexander
in Asia” from the 27th February up to the 1st March 2006
at the India International Centre in New Delhi. The conference was
co-sponsored by the India International Centre and the Embassy of
Greece in New Delhi.
Distinguished scholars from India,
Australia, Jordan, France and Greece presented the following
papers:
Session I: Chairperson: Professor Kapila
Vatsyayan, Director, IIC
Asia Project.
. "Greeks in the History ofIndia" by Dr, Himanshu
Prllbha Ray, JNU.
. "Differing modes of contact between
India and the
West: Some Achaemenid and Seleucid examples" by Professor Dan Ports,
University of Sydney.
. "Alexander's
Historians and the Alexander Romance: 11 comparative study of the
representation oflndia and Indians" by Dr. loannis Xydopoulos,
Aristotles'
University of
Thessaloniki.
Session II: Chairperson: Dr. O. P. KeJariwal.
. "Hellenism in an Afghan context" by Dr. Grant
Parker,
Duke
University.
. "Alexander and the
British Empire"
by Dr. Phiroze Vasunia, University of Reading.
. "French
Archaeologists and the Study of the Greeks in Central Asia and
India" by Dr. Jean-Malie Lafont, Department of Romance Languages &.
French Studies, University of Delhi.
. "Travelling to
India without
Alexander's Logbooks" by Dr. Jean-Frans Salles,IFPO, Jordan.
Session
Ill:
Chairperson: Professor K.M. Shrimali,
Delhi
University
. "Alexander and the Virtuous Indians" by Dr. Andy
Fear, University of
Manchester.
. "Alexander the Great and the Myth ofIndia" by Dr.
Alastair Blanshard,
University of
Sydney.
. "Excavations at Adam in
Central India:
material culture and the legacy of the Greeks" by Dr. Amarendra
Nath, Director, Archaeological Survey of India,
New Delhi.
Session IV: Chairperson: Dr. R. C. Agarwal,
Additional DG, Archaeological Survey of
India.
. "The absence oflegacy of Alexander in
Sind? or Sehwan
Sharif" by Dr. Monique Kervran, CNRS, Paris.
. "Continuity and
Change in Terracotta Art in the Gandhara region" by Dr. Arundhoti
Banerji, Superintending Archaeologist, Archaeological Survey of
India,
New Delhi.
. Prof.
Marie-Franse Boussac,
University of Lille,
France.
Session V:
Manuscripts In Asia and the Memory of the Greeks. Chairperson: Dr.
Barbara Schmitz.
"Recent
discoveries of Buddhist manuscripts from Afghanistan and the heritage
of the Greeks in the north-west" by Dr. Mark Allon, University of
Sydney.
The conference
ended with a reception hosted by the Ambassador of Greece in India.
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