Valérie Gillet

ORGANISATION OF CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS

 

20 December 2010      “The Dark Period: Myth or Reality?”, at the Pondicherry Centre of the EFEO.

 

August 2011    International workshop “The Archaeology of Bhakti I”, in collaboration with E. Francis and C. Schmid, in the Pondicherry Centre of the EFEO. Guests of honour: Alexander Dubiansky (Moscow University) and Padma Kaimal (Colgate University).

 

August 2013 International workshop “The Archaeology of Bhakti II: Local Bhakti, Royal Bhakti”, in collaboration with E. Francis and C. Schmid, in the Pondicherry Centre of the EFEO. Guests of honour: Vasudha Narayanan (University of Florida) and Richard Davis (Bard College).

 

February 2014 International workshop entitled “Mahābhārata: The Epic Tradition in India and South-East Asia”, organised in collaboration with the Sanskrit Department of the Pondicherry University and Université Lyon III Jean Moulin.

 

August 2015 International workshop “The Archaeology of Bhakti III: The Minor Dynasties”, in collaboration with E. Francis and C. Schmid, in the Pondicherry Centre of the EFEO. Guests of honour: Leslie Orr (Concordia University) and Yuko Yokochi (Kyoto University).

7-9 December 2016    International workshop “Ruptures and Breakdowns in Temple Life”, in collaboration with Anne Casile (IRD/IFP) at the EFEO centre of Pondichéry. Guests of honour: Parul Pandya Dhar (Delhi University) and Suchandra Gosh (University of Calcutta).

 

14 December 2017     Conference day entitled “Titles of Power, Power of Titles”, organised in collaboration with Charlotte Schmid at the Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient, Paris. Guests of Honour: Padma Kaimal (Colgate University) and Leslie Orr (Concordia University).

 

4 December 2018       Conference day entitled “Connecting Megalithic cultures of South Asia” organised in collaboration with Laurianne Bruneau (EPHE) at the École française d’Extrême-Orient, Paris. Guests: V. Selvakumar (Tamil University), Ajmal Mohammad Shah (Kashmir University), Luca Olivieri (Director of the Archaeological Mission of Swat Valley), Tara Steimer (University of Geneva).

 

LECTURES

 

May 2003 “Jalandharasaṃhāramūrti in Pallava iconography”, University of Aix-en-Provence (France) [published].

 

February 2004 “Dakṣiṇāmūrti in Pallava art”, presented during the Classical Tamil Winter School at the École française d’Extrême-Orient, Pondicherry.

 

May 2004 “Dakṣiṇāmūrti: a Pallava creation”, University of Aix-en-Provence (France).

 

August 2007 “Presentation and Reading of the Pandyan Velvikuti Copper-plates”, in collaboration with Dr. G. Vijayavenugopal, presented during the workshop “Engraving the King's Fame: Sanskrit Prasastis and Tamil Meykkirtis”, École française d’Extrême-Orient, Pondicherry.

 

August 2009 “Presentation of the Pondicherry Digital Photo-Archive, SITA (South Indian Temple Archives)”, presented during an ECAI conference, University of Trichy. [published]

 

August 2009 “Tracking the Traces of God: the Pandyan Cave temple of Tirupparankunram, Madurai district”, presented during the “International Workshop on the Internal and External Chronology of Tamil Bhakti, in Honour of Pandit Varadadesikan”, École française d’Extrême-Orient (French School of Asian Studies), Pondicherry. [published]

 

August 2010 « Anaimalai hill: a religious melting pot », presented during the Classical Tamil Summer Seminar, EFEO Centre of Pondicherry.

 

December 2010 “The Dark Period: Myth or Reality?”, opening address of a workshop held in the Pondicherry Centre of the EFEO. [published]

 

28 January 2011 « La présence de Vishnu dans les temples excavés du royaume pandya », paper presented during a conference entitled « Vishnu dans tous ses états », EFEO Paris.

 

17 April 2012  “Tracking traces of gods: the site of Tirupparaṅkuṉṟam” presented at the “Centre of Indian Languages, School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies”, Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi.

 

August 2013 “The Mukteśvara in Kāñcipuram: a temple of a Pallava queen”, “Gods and devotees of Medieval Tiruttaṇi”, “The recitation of the Mahābhārata in the inscriptions of Centalai”, “The Pandyan inscriptions of the Kaveri Delta”, papers given at the workshop-cum-conference “Archaeology of Bhakti II”, École française d’Extrême-Orient, Pondichéry.

 

11 February 2014 « The Mahābhārata and the Pallavas: the spread of the Great Epic in the Tamil-speaking South », paper presented at the International Conference Mahābhārata: The Epic Tradition in India and South-East Asia, jointly organised by the Pondicherry University and the EFEO Centre of Pondicherry.

 

23 March 2014 « Murukaṉ on his elephant: tales of a medieval Tamil-speaking South », Endowment Lecture at the Asiatic Society of Mumbai. [forthcoming]

 

11 September 2014 « Murukaṉ on his elephant: tales of a medieval Tamil-speaking South », Yale University.

 

18 December 2014 « Murukaṉ on his elephant: tales of a medieval Tamil-speaking South », short version presented at a working day at the EFEO Paris, « De l'Inde à l'Asie : Skanda tous azimuts /Where has Skanda gone? ».

 

August 2015 Presentations on the sites of Lalgudi, Malaiyadipatti, Tirumeyyam, Kannanur, Kilappaluvur, Melappaluvur during the workshop Archaeology of Bhakti III, the minor dynasties of South India.

 

10 October 2015 “Unveiling changes of faith in medieval Tamil-speaking South: the cases of Tirupparaṅkuṉṟam and Tiruccentūr”, at the Southern Methodist University, Dallas. The conference was organised by SARII in collaboration with the SMU.

 

8 Decembre 2016 “Land, revenue, tax: breakdown in 13th-century Tirumeyyam”, during the International workshop “Ruptures and Breakdowns in Temple Life” in the centre of the EFEO of Pondichéry.

 

24 April 2017  “La période obscure (Dark Period) en pays tamoul entre le IIIe siècle et le VIe siècle de notre ère : Mythe ou réalité ?”, Seminar of the EFEO, Paris.

 

16 June 2017   “Le premier Empire Pāṇḍya (Ve-Xe siècles) : état des lieux, difficultés d’approche, nouveautés”, for the one-day conference “Tamoul, Regards pluridisciplinaires” organised by Uthaya Vellupillai at the INALCO, Paris, on 16th of June.

 

26 June 2017   “Expressions d’autorité dans la construction, la recontruction ou le réaménagement de temples : le cas de Kiḻaiyūr-Melappaḻuvūr aux IXe et Xe siècles en pays tamoul”, paper included in the Autoritas panel at the GIS Asie Congress, held at Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris, from 26th to 28th June.

 

2 August 2017 “From Skanda to Murukaṉ : The Descent of a God”, paper presented at the International conference “From Viyayapuri to Śrīkṣetra”, organised by Arlo Griffiths at the EFEO centre of Pondicherry, from the 1st to the 5th of August.

 

15 September 2017    "Looking for Rāma: Traces of the Rāmāyaa in the territories of the Pallavas and Pāṇḍyas”, paper presented at the International conference "Connecting Cultures: Rāmāyaṇa Retellings in South India and Southeast Asia”, organised by Pr. Settar and Pr. Pandya Dhar, held at the Reva University, Bangalore, on the 14th and 15th September.

 

12 October 2017         « Structures of Power: The case of Kīḻaiyūr-Mēlappaḻuvūr in the 9th and 10th centuries in the Tamil Country”, paper presented at the International Conference entitled « South Indian Epigraphy and Art History. In memory of Professor Noboru Karashima », held at the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, Paris, on the 12th and 13th October.

 

14 December 2017     “Naming the temple with a royal title: the case of Kīḻaiyūr-Mēlappaḻuvūr”, presented at the conference day entitled “Titles of Power, Power of Titles”, organised in collaboration with Charlotte Schmid at the Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient, Paris.

 

1 March 2019  “The Vaṭṭeḻuttu script of the Tamil country: biography of a specific ancient Indian regional script”, presented at the conference organized by the Scripta project (PSL) entitled “Scripts in contact. Practices and interferences.”, from 28 February to 2nd of March 2019 at the Institut d’Études Avancées and EPHE, Paris.

 

28-29 May 2019         Participated in the workshop organised in the frame of the ANR Project Netcher on Illicit Trafficking in Cultural Heritage at the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut in Frankurt. Presentation of a case of bronzes from South India.

 

 

 

Valérie Gillet
Valérie Gillet

Maître de conférences

Histoire et archéologie du monde indien

Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient
22, avenue du Président Wilson75016 Paris
valerie.gillet@efeo.net