Journeys across the realm of the Dead Program

Jeudi 19 mai (salle 4.15)
9:30
Welcome speech
9:45-10:00
Keynote speaker : Li Yuanguo 李远国, (Sichuan Academy of Social Sciences) 1 : 巴蜀水陆
画的抢救与研究 The salvage and study of Shuilu ritual paintings in Sichuan (in Chinese)
1. Hellish performances
10:00-10:45
1) Hong Jeehee (Syracuse University) : Performing Death: Discourses of Theater in
Funerary Art of Thirteenth-Century China.
Coffee Break
11:00-11:45
2) Judit Bagi (Oriental Collection, Library and Information Centre of the Hungarian
Academy of Sciences): Cult of the Ancestors along the southwestern Mainland Silk
Road : a case study of Yunnanese variants of the « Mulian saves his mother » textual
corpus with special reference to their ritual context.
11:45-12:30
3) François Picard (Université Paris-Sorbonne), « La Mère du moine Mulian » Mulian
zhi mu opéra de la province du Sichuan, à la Cité de la Musique, janvier 2001, ou
comment sortir du religieux !
Lunch
2. Territories of death: (re) composing the map of Hell in East Asia
14:00-14:45
1) Lennert Gesterkamp (University of Amsterdam): Skulls, Skeletons, and Torture:
The Depiction of Death and Hell in Chinese Art.
14:45-15:30
2) François Macé (Inalco, CEJ): Partir en enfers et revenir de Yomi - la superposition
des au-delàs dans les croyances médiévales au Japon.
Coffee Break
3) Chen Shan 陈杉 (Sichuan Normal University) 冥府世界的探索 : Exploration of the
Netherworld (in Chinese).
16:30-17:15
4) Bryan Sauvadet (INALCO, ASIEs) : Which hell for which Korea ? An Aesthetic and
Layout study about representations of the Ten Kings of Hell in Republic of Korea
(South) and Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North).
17:15-18:00
5) Mary Picone (EHESS-CRJ) : Life-sized Hells: paysages moralisés, three-dimensional
reproductions and updated Buddhist instruction in contemporary Japan.
Jugements des Enfers
15:45-16:30
Vendredi 20 mai (salle 3.08)
3. Traveling across hell as a ritual, traveling through hell as a tale
9:30-10:15
1) Costantino Moretti (EPHE-CRCAO) : Cosmological and Apocryphal Hell Descriptions
in Medieval Buddhist Literature.
10:15-11:00
2) Pénélope Riboud (INALCO-ASIEs) : From scroll to stone and back : what’s the story
behind Ten Kings imagery ?
Coffee Break
11:15-12:00
1) Rostislav Berezkin (Fudan University) : Illustrated manuscripts of Mulian Baojuan
(14-15 cent.) in the context of tradition of picture storytelling in East Asia.
12:00-12:45
2) Vincent Durand-Dastès (INALCO-ASIEs) : The Journey through Hell of ‘Empress’
Chi Hui, Wife of Liang Wudi : From Illustrated Narratives to Ritual theater .
Lunch
4. Hell’s dwellers: Saviors, visitors, judges and prisoners
14:00-14:45
1) Wang Huayan (EHESS-CECMC): Trouver leur place dans l’au-delà – récit sur le
phénomène d’être « magistrat le jour et juge des enfers la nuit » et le cas du culte de
Cui Fujun.
14:45-15:30
2) Zhang Zuozhou张作⾈舟, (Sichuan University of Media and Communication) 冥府地狱的
主宰太乙救苦天尊 : Le vénérable céleste sauveur des malheurs Taiyi, divinité principale
des enfers.
Coffee Break
16:30-17:15
3) Li Lihe 李黎鹤，(Sichuan University of Media and Communication) : 水陆画中雷神研
究 Thunder gods in Shuilu ritual paintings.
4) Vincent Goossaert (EPHE-GSRL) : Rather become a God than linger in Hell:
historical perspectives.
Jugements des Enfers
15:45-16:30