Program
4th-8th January 2018
SIEM REAP
Monday 8th January
Morning: Ancient and modern foundries #1 (Angkor)
Meeting point: EFEO Centre
7:30 Bus departure to Angkor Thom
8:00–11:30 Visit of the royal foundry of Angkor Thom, 11th-12th c. (Brice Vincent, EFEO)
11:30 Bus departure to Siem Reap
12:00 Lunch (on your own)
Afternoon: Ancient and modern foundries #2 (Siem Reap)
Meeting point: EFEO Centre
1:30 Grouping and bus departure
2:00–5:30 Group #1: visit of Mr. It Sopheap’s foundry (small and large statuary: Meas Sreyneath, RUFA) and of the Vat Bo monastery museum (bronze collection: Huot Samnang, MNC)
Group #2: visit of Mr. It Sopheap’s foundry and of the Vat Bo monastery museum
Tuesday 9th January
Morning& Afternoon: Bronze statuary in Angkorian temples
Meeting point: EFEO Centre
7:30 Bus departure to the West Baray
8:00 Boat to the West Mebon temple
8:30–10:30 Visit of the West Mebon temple (Maric Beaufeist, EFEO).
11:30 Lunch at the West Baray (paid)
1:00 Bus departure to Angkor Vat temple
1:30–3:30 Visit of Angkor Vat temple (Brice Vincent, EFEO)
4:00–5:00 Visit of Ta Prohm temple (Brice Vincent, EFEO)
Wednesday 10th January
Morning& Afternoon: CAST:ING project
Meeting point: EFEO Centre
7:30–8:00 CAST:ING project: introduction (David Bourgarit, C2RMF)
8:00–10:00 CAST:ING project: discussion #1-4
10:00–10:30 Coffee break
10:30–12:30 CAST:ING project: discussion #5-8
12:30 Lunch (on your own)
2:00–4:00 CAST:ING project: discussion #9-12
4:00–4:30 Coffee break
4:30–6:30 CAST:ING project: general discussion
7:00 Dinner at the EFEO Centre
Thursday 11th January
Morning: Conference “Methods and techniques of archaeometallurgy: recent research on bronze sculpture”
Meeting point: EFEO Centre
7:30 Bus departure to the APSARA National Authority
8:30–8:40 H.E. Tan Boun Suy (APSARA), Keynote speech
8:40–9:00 David Bourgarit (C2RMF), Introduction to the CAST:ING project
9:00–9:30 Benoît Mille (C2RMF), Why was lost-wax casting invented?
9:30–9:50 Brice Vincent (EFEO), From wax to samrit: technical investigations into a corpus of Angkorian bronzes(10th–13th c.)
9:50–10:10 Mathilde Mechling (Paris 3 & Leiden University), Indonesian bronze-casting tradition: technical investigations on thirty-nine Indonesian bronze statues (7th–11th c.) from the Musée National des Arts Asiatiques–Guimet, Paris
10:10–10:40 Coffee break
10:40–11:00 Manon Castelle (C2RMF), One commission, two sculptures, how many founders? Technical study of three Renaissance French bronze Virtues adorning the monument of the heart of Duke Anne de Montmorency from the Louvre museum
11:00–11:20 Laurence Garenne-Marot (Royal Museum for Central Africa, Brussels), African “bronzes”, from a royal art to a more mundane one: reconstructing the forming techniques
11:20–11:40 Francesca Bewer (Harvard Art Museums), title
11:40–12:30 Q&A
12:30 Lunch at the APSARA National Authority (paid)
Afternoon: Bus transfer to Phnom Penh
2:30 Bus departure to Phnom Penh (6 hours)
PHNOM PENH
Friday 12th January
Morning & Afternoon: Case study #1
Meeting point: National Museum of Cambodia
8:00–8:30 Visit of the bronze collection and grouping
8:30–10:00 Technological study of the West Mebon Vishnu #1
10:00–10:30 Break
10:30–12:00 Technological study of the West Mebon Vishnu #2
12:00 Lunch (on your own)
1:30–3:00 Technological study of the West Mebon Vishnu #3
3:00–3:30 Break
3:30–5:00 Technological study of the West Mebon Vishnu #4
Evening: Yosothor Lecture
Meeting point: Faculty of Archaeology, Royal University of Fine Arts
5:30–7:00 “Nouveau regard sur les fondeurs du Cambodge moderne : le traité Sur la fonte de divers statues et objets du maître d’oeuvres Ieng Soeung”(Brice Vincent, lecture in French with translation in Khmer by Ang Choulean and PowerPoint presentation in English)
Saturday 13th January
Morning& Afternoon: Ancient and modern foundries #3 (Post-Angkorian capitals)
Meeting point: National Museum of Cambodia
7:30 Bus departure to Udong
8:30–11:00 Visit of the royal foundry of Boeng Samrid at Udong, 16th c. (Martin Polkinghhorne, Flinders University)
11:30 Lunch at Udong (paid)
1:30-3:30 Visit of modern village foundries around Udong hill (Meas Sreyneath, RUFA)
3:30 Bus departure to Kompong Luong
4:00–5:00 Visit of silversmiths at Kompong Luong
7:00 Dinner at the National Museum of Cambodia
Sunday 14th January
Morning:Case study #2; CAST:ING project
Meeting point: National Museum of Cambodia
8:00–10:00 Case study #2: data processing
10:00–10:30 Coffee break
10:30–11:30 Case study #2: feedback
11:30–12:00 CAST:ING project: concluding remarks
12:00 Lunch (on your own)