INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

ENCOUNTERING OTHER PEOPLE. MATERIAL RELIGION AND CULTURAL EXCHANGES IN MEDIEVAL ACCOUNTS OF ASIA

3 MAY 2023 09:00-18:30

UNIVERSITÉ DE FRIBOURG/UNIVERSITÄT FREIBURG
MIS 04 SALLE 4112 (JÄGGI), AVENUE DE L'EUROPE 20, 1700 FRIBOURG

Image : BnF, ms. fr. 2810, f. 184r; https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b52000858n/f371.item

PROGRAMME

09:00 Greetings and introduction (Michele Bacci)

FIRST SESSION, CHAIR: MICHELE BACCI

09:15 Jana Valtrová (Masaryk University) ‘In istis partibus sunt multe septe ydolatrarum diversa credentium…’ Conceptualization of religious plurality in the medieval Latin travel accounts of Asia

09:45 Jennifer Purtle (University of Toronto) Spaces of Enunciation: Franciscan Narratives of the Sino-Mongol City

10:15 Coffee break

10:30 李文丹 Li Wendan (Peking University) Encounters of European travellers with Buddhists in the Far East in the 13th and 14th century *[online]

11:00 马晓林 Ma Xiaolin (Nankai University) Marco Polo and Yuan China: rituals and religions *[online]

11:30 Discussion

12:00 Lunch

SECOND SESSION, CHAIR: ELEONORA TIOLI

13:30 Partha Mitter (University of Sussex) Early Representations of Hinduism in the West (13th to 17th centuries)

14:00 Pier Giorgio Borbone (Università di Pisa) Rabban Sauma in the Land of the Franks *[online]

14:30 Agnes Birtalan (Eötvös Loránd University) The Mongols’ Pre-Buddhist Religious Views. The Etic Understanding (Some Examples from the 13th – 14th century sources)

15:00 Discussion

15:30 Coffee break

THIRD SESSION, CHAIR: VESNA SCEPANOVIC

16:00 Michele Bacci (University of Fribourg) Image Worship in Medieval Eurasia. Comparative Perspectives

16:30 Alexandre Varela (University of Fribourg) “Ele lhe disse que yão buscar Christãos e especearia”. Encountering Christians in India: Cheryia Pally (Kottayam) wall paintings as a study case

17:00 Anne Dunlop (University of Melbourne) From martyrdom to mirabilia. The Franciscans, Odoric, and the deaths at Thane

17:30 Eleonora Tioli (University of Fribourg, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa) The Perception of Religious Otherness in Medieval Texts and Images

18:00 Conclusion and final discussion

18:30 End of the conference

Organisaiton: Prof. Dr. Michele Bacci, Eleonora Tioli, and Dr. Vesa Scepanovic

Contact: vesna.scepanovic@unifr.ch ; eleonora.tioli@unifr.ch

For more information, go to https://www.unifr.ch/philosophie/fr/actualites-et-evenements/agenda/?eventid=13073